Where Is Ernesto?

This book not only has the power of a harrowing denunciation — the disappearance of student Ernesto Castillo Páez, which occurred on October 21, 1990, in the shantytown of Villa el Salvador, at the hands of the police — but also reveals the way in which the system moves and hides to cover up its crimes and guilt. For this reason, Cromwell Castillo, the student's father, says: "...we want to leave testimony of how difficult but not impossible it is to confront an entire tangled network that moves in the spheres of power in order to prevent the crimes that govern the State from being uncovered and to keep them unpunished, while appearing as saviors of the homeland." The book, beyond having the courage to denounce the very fact of the disappearance, has the moral authority of having confronted, for many years, the entire machinery of the system across different governments. And that confrontation took place from the very first day that Ernesto's disappearance became known until the final moments in which the criminal trial unfolded. (Excerpt from the foreword).