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Vargas Llosa Announces the Museum Will Now Be Called Place of Memory
The president of that commission, Mario Vargas Llosa, explained that the new name reflects a fuller understanding of the events that occurred during the era of terror in the 1980s and 1990s. "The word museum is associated with an institution that preserves the past. We do not want the Lugar de la Memoria to be a reconstruction of violence in Peru; [this name] gives a fuller, more just, more accurate vision of the historical fact," he stated.