This article addresses four narrative texts by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa related to the violence experienced in Peru in the context of the war between Shining Path and the …
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21 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
It is announced that the new Minister of Culture will appoint the new president of the High-Level Commission for the Place of Memory, who will replace Vargas Llosa.
Seven years have passed since the president of the Comisión de la Verdad y la Reconciliación (CVR), Salomón Lerner Febres, presented the final report to Peruvian society and the state. …
In his regular column, César Hildebrandt raises a pertinent question, especially now that the first stone of the Lugar de la Memoria has been laid: Why is Fujimori in prison …
Vargas Llosa sent a letter to President Alan García expressing his disagreement with Legislative Decree 1097, which he considers a "disguised amnesty." He argues that the measure has generated outrage …
Important interview from New York with Ricardo Alvarado, Peruvian intellectual and director of Ave Crítica.
The president of that commission, Mario Vargas Llosa, explained that the new name reflects a fuller understanding of the events that occurred during the era of terror in the 1980s …
He therefore stated that the museum, which will be built facing the coast of Lima, will not attribute the violence to two "sides"—terrorists on one hand and the Armed Forces …
Let us examine what was said by the unjustly overlooked Nobel Prize in Literature winner. At first glance, several inconsistencies emerge: on the one hand he says there were not …
Mario Vargas Llosa has announced that the "Museo de la Memoria" will be called "Lugar de la Memoria." Is this change a whim of the literary figure, or is it …
In statements to television, Vargas Llosa asserted that in the museum "violence will not be attributed to two 'sides' — terrorists on one side and the Armed Forces on the …
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Interview with Mario Vargas Llosa in which the writer states that the memory museum will show the suffering caused by Sendero. "If it functions as we want, the museum will …
To everyone's surprise — especially some of the cabinet ministers themselves, who had been overly zealous in defending the government's decision — President Alan García reversed his initial position, showed …
Interview with Mario Vargas Llosa. He convinced the government of Alan García of the need for the Museum of Memory. Now, pulling hard at the oars, he chairs the commission …
Information on Alan García's government's rejection of Germany's generous offer.
Faced with widespread protest, Alan García reverses his refusal regarding a Museum of Memory and appoints an ad honorem commission to take charge of the project. Vargas Llosa will chair …
Several intellectuals decided to make public their protest against the decision of Alan García's government to reject the German government's offer to build a Museum of Memory. This document concludes …
Interview with Philip Bennett, an American who is currently the international affairs editor of the Washington Post. Before that, however, he worked in Peru, married a Lima woman of Cusco …
Unlike what happened in Argentina with the commission chaired by Ernesto Sábato and its widely recognized report on violence and the disappeared during the military dictatorship, Nunca más, which had …
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