PUBLIC SPACES FOR DISCUSSION OF PERU'S RECENT PAST
After the internal armed conflict and a truth commission that investigated the preceding twenty years (1980–2000), Peru is in the process of writing into public spaces the narratives that provide the frameworks for organizing individual and collective memories of this recent past. This work studies two public spaces: a series of events in Ayacucho during the submission of the Truth Commission's Final Report, and the monument El ojo que llora (The Eye That Cries) in Lima. One of the most contested memories concerns who is the appropriate victim and national hero to be remembered.