All of Peru Has to Do With the Disappeared
In the early hours of July 3, 1983, a group of thirty soldiers broke into the home of Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza and took away her son Arquímedes, then 16 years old. It was the last time she saw him alive. Desperate, on the verge of going mad from not knowing the whereabouts of her son, she moved heaven and earth trying to find him. Two months later, together with other mothers, wives, and daughters who were also searching for their own, she founded the Asociación Nacional de Familias de Secuestrados, Detenidos y Desaparecidos (ANFASEP). Since then, for thirty years, she has not ceased in her search for her son and for justice for those responsible for his disappearance.