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 …
Most complaints of disappearance and torture in the department of Ayacucho date from 1983 and 1984; however, only those concerning the first of those years have advanced far enough to …
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
Tribute to Mamá Angélica
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
Ayacucho: Justice and Culture ministers attended the wake of 'Mamá Angélica'
Ayacucho: 'mamá Angélica' is buried with a massive funeral procession
'Mamá Angélica' recounts the kidnapping of her son, Arquímides Escarza, in 1983
"Mama Anqui" (Angélica Mendoza): in memory
Mamá Angelica "Memory for the absent"
"Ombudsman Medal" awarded to Doña Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza "Mamá Angélica"
2000
Mamá Angélica and her fellow founding members of the National Association of Families of Kidnapped, Detained and Disappeared Persons of Peru.
1990