Death of Edith Lagos in confrontation with the police
Death of hiker Edith Lagos in police clash, whose funeral was widely covered by the media
Edith Lagos, a young Shining Path militant, was shot on September 2, 1982 in an accidental encounter with the police near Andahuaylas. Her death and subsequent funeral in Ayacucho were widely covered by the media, which transmitted images of her coffin and bloody clothes. The media unwittingly contributed to create an iconography around his figure, although they later discontinued this mythologizing in the face of increased violence in 1983.