U.S. AGENCIES INVOLVED IN FORCED STERILIZATION IN PERU (Translation)

This Catholic organization denounces the atrocities of the forced sterilization campaign during the Fujimori era. In recent weeks (mid-December 1997 to mid-January 1998), there have been 16 articles in a single newspaper, El Comercio, the country's main newspaper. Other major dailies also provided significant coverage. Selection of headlines from El Comercio: "Nurses deceive women in order to sterilize them" (January 26, 1998), "Widowers were paid not to report the deaths of their sterilized wives" (January 24, 1998), "Woman hospitalized for three months due to infection caused by sterilization" (December 24, 1997), "Woman who was one month pregnant is sterilized" (December 23, 1997), "Woman received clothing for her children in exchange for sterilization" (December 23, 1997); "Food programs used to obtain women to be sterilized" (December 20, 1997), "Children of woman who died after tubal ligation are in total abandonment" (December 19, 1997): "Magna Morales was not sure, but the donated food convinced her" (December 19, 1997; Morales died 12 days after her sterilization).