Our Civil War. Ayacucho 80
We can characterize this war in a thousand ways: as a clash of ideologies, a tragic dispute between misguided dreamers and conformists, a struggle between strata of a society in crisis in which privileges are called into question. But for all Peruvians it is the birth of something different that the generations inhabiting this nation today have never known. We make no claim under any circumstances to be producing literature, but much of what is set out here carries passion and pain. Our civil war of Ayacucho today, and all of Peru tomorrow, constitutes an inexhaustible source of social, political, and military lessons for all of us who feel deep within us the Perú profundo, the Peru that today is desperately searching for its destiny, on the basis of atavistic and emancipated ancestral roots. (Excerpt from the foreword).