REPORT OF THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION: A PAINFUL MIRROR OF PERU
In this article, the author comments on the CVR's final report through several central points. Noting its virtues and shortcomings, he both defends and criticizes it at the same time. What happened in Peru during the last 20 years of the 20th century that caused the violence to produce an enormous number of deaths, which the Comisión de la Verdad y la Reconciliación (CVR) has calculated at 69,280 Peruvian women and men? How can that tragedy be explained? What must we do to prevent the country from suffering such a bloodbath again in the future? What must we do so that the wounds — above all those of the families of the nearly ten thousand disappeared — heal, and so that this new page in Peru's history of pain can truly be closed?