The Death of Mamá Angélica Reminds Us Why Memory Will Always 'Offend' Some
Ten days before she died, on August 18, the Poder Judicial confirmed that in 1983 her son, Arquímedes Ascarza, had been disappeared by a group of soldiers from the Los Cabitos barracks (Ayacucho), where a crematory oven existed for carrying out extrajudicial executions. That day, the judges made her wait until 3:20 in the morning to hear the verdict. The mistreatment began early, when she and the other mothers were made to wait because the sentence was not yet ready. Published on August 29, 2107.