¿Verdugo, héroe o víctima? Memorias de un rondero campesino ayacuchano (Perú)

Abstract

Intellectual peasant, political leader and founder of the militia of Ocros in the 1980s, the Zorro is an emblematic figure of the vicissitudes and ambiguities intrinsic to the internal armed conflict. The heroic narrative he built of himself and its role in this period articulates political and religious elements of a singular experience. For his mediating role between local and national society, the Zorro reveals the way peasants see their role in this war. The autobiography produced by/with the Zorro is one of the many subaltern stories about violence. What do we learn from these stories, often invisible in the national collective memory? How is the recent war incorporated into the overall story of the history of Peru and what place does the indigenous peasant citizen occupy there?

Keywords

• Peru
• citizenship
• Armed struggle
• subaltern memories
• indigenous peasants
• counterinsurgency militia