Signs. A Voice of the Church of the Poor in Peru 1980-2008

Presented here is a work of analysis and reflection on the journal Signos. A publication that over the course of nearly 30 years has expressed its hope for social change through the elaboration and selection of local and national news on one hand, and serious, nuanced reflection on events affecting the lives of Peruvian men and women on the other; for which reason it echoed denunciations of injustices and human rights violations, many of them ignored by the nationally circulating press. The journal also offered itself as a means of dissemination and recognition of so many organized popular experiences that, like industrious ants, strove to participate in changing the conditions of so many people immersed in contexts of poverty and discrimination. The book divides the history of terrorism's actions in Peru into several well-differentiated and established sections, the main ones being: "The extreme crisis: subversive offensive and state counter-offensive" (March 1989 – September 1992) and "Decline of subversive action, authoritarianism and corruption" (September 1992 – November 2000). (Excerpt from the foreword).