Ten days before she died, on August 18, the Poder Judicial confirmed that in 1983 her son, Arquímedes Ascarza, had been disappeared by a group of soldiers from the Los …
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18 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
On August 28, 2017, Huamanga awakens to a brilliant Andean sun illuminating the tile rooftops surrounding the Plaza de Armas of the city. The atmosphere is as calm as any …
Lifetime testimony of Mamá Angélica. Spanish transcription of the testimony given by Angélica Mendoza, Mamá Angélica, about the disappearance of her son Arquímedes Arquímides Ascarza Mendoza. Published on September 1, …
The following audio is a posthumous tribute to doña Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza, known as Mamá Angélica, an exemplary mother who leaves us an enormous lesson of struggle and tireless …
"Maypi kachkanki Arquímedes?" "Where are you, Arquímedes?" What I remember about mamá Angélica are her eyes of unfathomable sadness. That last time I interviewed her, in 2015. Her husband had …
The Ayacucho guitar plays and the mothers of the disappeared sing in Quechua to 'Mamá Angélica,' the founding mother, the great mother. At the cemetery of Huamanga, on the afternoon …
"Mamá Angélica" begins her final journey tomorrow. Precisely on the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza will be buried in the cemetery of Huamanga, …
"Courageous mother, woman of a thousand battles, beautiful mother, unshakeable woman, your struggle is our struggle, your tears are our tears, you fought for 30 years in hard battles against …
Without a doubt, Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza was one of those women who, against all odds in the world, believed in justice and fought for it. I will not recount …
A native of Ayacucho, her name was Angélica Mendoza Ascarza, but Peru knew her simply as "Mamá Angélica." Until the age of 88, when life gave out, she never stopped …
On the afternoon of August 28, Angélica Mendoza died, better known as "mamá Angélica," a woman who fought for more than 30 years over the disappearance of her son Arquímides …
Ten days after the ruling that convicted the military personnel from the 'Los Cabitos' barracks who disappeared her son, María Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza died in Ayacucho without ever finding …
The mother of one of the victims kidnapped and disappeared at an Ayacucho military barracks died at the age of 88, after a long fight to find justice. For 34 …
Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza, known as "Mamá Angélica," died at the age of 88. She was a woman from Ayacucho who became the symbol of families of the disappeared during …
Angélica Mendoza, who for more than three decades searched for her son kidnapped by Peruvian security forces and became a symbol for families of the disappeared, died at the age …
Peruvian social leader Angélica Mendoza viuda de Ascarza passed away on Monday afternoon in a public hospital in Ayacucho, the southern Andean region where she and her children were born …
In the early hours of July 3, 1983, a group of thirty soldiers broke into the home of Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza and took away her son Arquímedes, then 16 …
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Tribute to Mamá Angélica - Part II
Tribute to Mamá Angélica - Part I
Government ministers participated in posthumous tribute to "mamá Angélica"
Documentary about 'Mamá Angélica', a courageous woman from Ayacucho
Tribute paid to 'mamá Angélica' in Lima
'Mamá Angélica' recounts the kidnapping of her son, Arquímides Escarza, in 1983
"Mama Anqui" (Angélica Mendoza): in memory
Ayacucho: Justice and Culture ministers attended the wake of 'Mamá Angélica'
Tribute to Mamá Angélica
Ayacucho: 'mamá Angélica' is buried with a massive funeral procession
Mamá Angelica "Memory for the absent"
Achka Illaki kallpanchawaraku (So much pain gave us strength and courage) - Documentary
"Ombudsman Medal" awarded to Doña Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza "Mamá Angélica"
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