María Elena Moyano
María Elena Moyano | |
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Born | María Elena Moyano Delgado[1] 29 November 1958 Santiago de Surco, Lima, Peru |
Died | 15 February 1992 Villa El Salvador, Lima, Peru | (aged 33)
Cause of death | Assassination |
Nationality | Peruvian |
Spouse |
Gustavo Pineki (m. 1980) |
Children | 2 |
Relatives | Martha Moyano (sister) |
María Elena Moyano Delgado (29 November 1958 – 15 February 1992) was an
Early life
María Elena Moyano was born in
Activism
In Villa El Salvador, Moyano helped to set up primary schools, soup kitchens and clubs for mothers.
Moyano was critical of both the
Death and legacy
On 15 February 1992, Moyano was murdered in front of her children at a communal event in Villa El Salvador by members of the Shining Path.[4] The assassins first shot her and then blew her body up with explosives.[8]
An estimated 300,000 people attended the funeral of María Elena Moyano. Alongside the capture of the leader of the Sendero Luminoso, Abimael Guzmán, in September 1992, outrage at the murder of Moyano is seen as a major step in the drop in support for the group.[2]: 30 [7] President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski posthumously gave the Peruvian Order of Merit for Distinguished Service to Moyano. It was accepted by her mother in 2017.[9]
The film Coraje (Courage) was released in 1998. It told a fictionalised version of Moyano's life.
Her sister Martha Moyano also become a congresswoman.[12]
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-530173-1. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- ^ ISBN 978-0813027463.
- ^ a b "Maria Elena Moyano". Gariwo. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Peru: Women's Human Rights. In memory of María Elena Moyano" (PDF). Amnesty International. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- ISBN 978-1-78168-158-9.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-005689-6.
- ISSN 0260-9592.
- ^ "Peru: Gov't awards posthumous Order of Merit to Maria Elena Moyano". Andina (in Spanish). FHG/MVB. 15 February 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- ^ Barrow, Sarah (2007). "Coraje (Alberto Durant 1998): Creating an icon". Peruvian cinema, national identity and political violence 1988-2004 (PhD) (phd). University of Sheffield.
- ^ "Maria Elena Moyano Fellowship Fund". CLACS. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- ^ "Martha Moyano aclaró el distanciamiento ideológico de su hermana María Elena con Sendero Luminoso". Diario Expreso. 21 April 2021. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
Further reading
- Burt, Jo-Marie. "Los usos y abusos de la memoria de Maria Elena Moyano". A Contracorriente: Una revista de historia y de América Latina, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2020), 165–209.
- Burt, Jo-Marie. "Accounting for Murder: The Contested Narratives of the Life and Death of Maria Elena Moyano," in Accounting for Violence edited by Ksenija Bilbija and Leigh Payne. Chapel Hill: Duke University Press, 2011, 69–97.
- Courage (1999 film).
- Gorriti, Gustavo. The Shining Path. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1999. Print.
- Heilman, Jaymie Patricia. Before the Shining Path: Politics in Rural Ayacucho, 1895–1980. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2010.
- Shaw, Lisa and Stephanie Dennison. Pop Culture Latin America: Media, Arts and Lifestyle. ABC-CLIO, 2005.
- Starn, Orin and La Serna, Miguel The Shining Path – Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2019.
External links
- Review of The Autobiography of Maria Elena Moyano (2000)
- Pictures of Maria Elena Moyano by www.amigosdevilla.it
- "El Asesinato de Maria Elena Moyano – Especial de TV Peru" (in Spanish). YouTube. 13 February 2012. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021.
- "Sucedio en el Perú – María Elena Moyano – bloque 1/5" (in Spanish). YouTube. 20 October 2009. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021.