In 1983, a group of journalists was murdered in Uchuraccay, Ayacucho. Juan Argumedo acted as the journalists' guide during this tragic event. After the tragedy, his sister Juana Lidia Argumedo denounced the responsibility of the armed forces in the events. As a result of her denunciation, Juana was arrested on …
On January 23, 1983, the guide Juan Argumedo was captured 5 kilometers from Uchuraccay, at the point called Yuracyacu. He was taken to the community of Uchuraccay for interrogation. Three days later, on January 26, Juan Argumedo García was murdered together with eight journalists and the community member Severino Huáscar …
On January 26, 1983, a group of eight journalists arrived in Yanaorco around 8:30 a.m., two hours after leaving Ayacucho. The journalists had hired cab driver Salvador Luna and made a brief stop in Paclla where they had breakfast and took photographs before arriving in Yanaorco. At approximately 11:30 a.m., …
The day after the capture of fourteen Iquichan peasants suspected of belonging to or supporting the PCP-Sendero Luminoso, the villagers of Uchuraccay gathered in the square to judge the prisoners. The trial was carried out by taking the detainees one by one to the square to testify before the community. …
After the trials carried out in the Uchuraccay plaza against the imprisoned Iquichanos and the women relatives of the guide Juan Argumedo, the community members Constantino Soto Aguilar and Mariano Ccunto were sent to the Tambo Civil Guard post. Their mission was to inform the authorities about the deaths of …
The Uchuraccay Events Investigation Commission, chaired by Mario Vargas Llosa, met with the Uchuraccay villagers in an assembly held three weeks after the massacre of the journalists. The dialogue lasted almost three hours and was conducted through translators because none of the commissioners spoke Quechua. During the assembly, the peasants …
On February 11, 1983, Juan Argumedo's sister, Juana Lidia, went to Uchuraccay accompanied by Judge Juan Flores Rojas to perform the exhumation of her brother's body. However, the procedure could not be carried out because the body was not found in the expected place. Later, Juana Lidia learned that her …
Juana Lidia Argumedo, sister of Juan Argumedo (guide of the journalists murdered in Uchuraccay in 1983), was arrested on September 15, 1984. After the Uchuraccay tragedy, Juana denounced the responsibility of the armed forces in the events. As a result of these denunciations, she was detained by the forces of …
During the oral trial of the Uchuraccay case transferred to Lima, hearings were held between May and December 1986 in which members of the mixed patrol that arrived in Uchuraccay after the murder of the journalists on January 26, 1983 testified. The trial took place before the Special Tribunal that …
Juan Argumedo was one of the journalists murdered in the Uchuraccay massacre on January 26, 1983. His sister Juana Lidia Argumedo went to Uchuraccay with Judge Juan Flores Rojas on February 11, 1983 to perform the exhumation, but it could not be done because the body was not found. Some …
