The Funerals of Mamá Angélica
The Ayacucho guitar plays and the mothers of the disappeared sing in Quechua to 'Mamá Angélica,' the founding mother, the great mother. At the cemetery of Huamanga, on the afternoon of August 30, a social activist was laid to rest, fittingly on the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Arquímedes, her son, was torn from her arms by soldiers when he was still a teenager. She never managed to find him, but along the path she walked, she found many other orphaned sons and daughters whom she adopted, nourished, and strengthened. Published on August 30, 2017.