Knowing the Past. Collective Memory about Political Violence in Jesús Nazareno. First Edition

Olympically forgotten by mayors and presidents, they were aging from youth. Until, tired of waiting, their residents gave birth to: neighborhood associations, property owners' associations, through whose leaders the residents discovered that rights are not begged for, but won. Steeling themselves, swallowing ugly curses and wiping tears that ran like rivers of blood in our streets, as a result of the fierce war of Peruvians against Peruvians of the '80s, which even today it is impossible to explain because the wounds are still open, wounds that these days are being discussed in the media as a possible continuation, since the causes that originated it remain in effect. Of these and many other things (with testimonies from the last remaining residents, of the pain endured in their places of origin by the hundreds of displaced people who found protection and today have security in the District), this book deals; and if the reader does not have a heart of tin or stone, they too will be moved to tears, like this "waqati, wamanqino maqta", forgetting that the brave do not cry, who gave way to blessed curses and tears. (Excerpt from the foreword).