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Stone wall of the community of Uchuraccay, in Huanta
Stone wall of the community of Uchuraccay, in Huanta. This was the second-to-last photo taken by El Observador photographer Willy Retto Torres. The four graves where the journalists were buried were located behind this wall. On January 26, 1983, peasants from Uchuraccay killed, in that Ayacuchan community, journalists Eduardo de la Piniella, Pedro Sánchez, and Félix Gavilán from El Diario de Marka; Jorge Luis Mendívil and Willy Retto from El Observador; Jorge Sedano from La República; Amador García from the magazine Oiga; and Octavio Infante from the newspaper Noticias de Ayacucho. Along with the journalists, guide Juan Argumedo García and Severino Morales Ccente, a local community member from Uchuraccay, were also killed.