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The funeral for Edith Lagos, a fighter in the Peruvian Communist Party, her funeral was attended by over 30,000 people, mostly peasants.

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Funeral of comrade Edith Lagos, a commander of the Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path)

Harsh Thakor in Countercurrents:

Edith Lagos was 19 years old when she was martyred by the Peruvian state on September 2, 1982. 30,000 people converged in her procession. Those 30,000 people constituted approximately 45 percent of the population of Ayacucho, even though the government had declared it illegal to attend her funeral. The ruling government was completely shaken. What phenomena stirred such a huge turn out? It manifested the deep support the masses or faith the masses in the Communist Party of Peru. Edith had one of the first major criminal cases of any party member and she was known and admired for overturning the charges thanks to a team of lawyers who were also supporters of the revolution. Daughter of a merchant from Ayacucho, she was the sixth of seven siblings. She received a traditional education at a convent school in her town. She was part of the schoolchildren’s struggles against the reforms in the school grading scale. In this regard, in her last year of high school, she joined the Coordinating and Unifying Committee of the Secondary Student Movement (CCUMES), created by Huamanguino schoolchildren. These confrontations had a strong impact in the region at the end of the 1970s, since they cost the death of some schoolchildren, as well as the repression of the area. In 1979 she moved to Lima to study Law at the San Martin de Porres University , studies she abandoned. The following year he returned to Huamanga and joined the urban detachments of Sendero Luminoso. On December 24, 1980, seven months after the Senderista struggle began, she was captured and accused of participating in different dynamite attacks in Ayacucho. One day after her arrest, she was publicly introduced. After a brief transfer to Lima, she was confined in the Huamanga jail. In prison, along with fellow Senderista Carlota Tello, she dedicated herself to proselytizing. On July 25, 1981, one of her poems, presented under her pseudonym, won first place in a composition and poetry contest at the Ayacucho National Institute of Culture. In the assault on March 3rd, 1982 that she directed against said penitentiary, she was among the 304 inmates who managed to escape, approximately 70 of whom were Senderistas. Edith lead important actions like the attack on the Ayacucho jail in which she blew a hole into the wall and liberated all of the prisoners, including her captured activists. In the attack the rebel guerrillas led by Comrade Edith captured many weapons. The capture of weapons was the backbone of the early days of the Protracted People’s War which was started by women with dynamite and not by militarily trained men with high-tech weaponry. In this process we witnessed the toppling of the bourgeois model of warfare which patronises sexist and anti-people ideology that survives on preserving the backward social norms of imperialism. The People’s Guerrilla Army on the other hand converted the masses into soldiers and galvanised their unarmed ranks into a mighty force that within a decade put the rulers on the brink of defeat. Women soldiers and leaders like Edith Lagos. played role of an architect in shaping this development, planting the seeds for roses to bloom, to shape the advance of the Peruvian revolution.

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In September 1982, Edith Lagos was captured and murdered by the Peruvian army. 

The young woman, barely 19 years old, commanded a detachment of the People's Liberation Army, which was attacking the state prison of Ayucucho where many political prisoners were detained.

Although her funeral was declared illegal by the old state, more than 30,000 people attended the funeral procession in the streets of Ayacucho -- half of the city's population.

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Edith Lagos, Guerrilla Poet - Anti Imperialist Action Ireland

This article is translated into English from an article published on Tjen Folket Media on 23/1/2022, which was translated from an article that was published by Periódico Mural on 27.11.2021

In her poetry, Edith expresses the deep melancholy of the Peruvian highlands, the pain that is everywhere, made of cold, hunger and poverty, of exploitation and silence, of enclosed rage, of revolutionary hope, of deep love for life, even its ultimate consequences.

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Ministro de Trabajo responde pliego interpelatorio ante el Pleno

Ministro de Trabajo responde pliego interpelatorio ante el Pleno

El ministro de Trabajo y Promoción del Empleo, Iber Maraví, responde ante el Pleno del Congreso, desde las 10:37 horas, el pliego interpelatorio contenido en la Moción de Orden del Día nro. 323, que consta de siete interrogantes. La sesión plenaria empezó a las 10:28 horas y es conducida por la presidenta del Parlamento, Maricarmen Alva Prieto, quien informó que el tiempo para el debate será de…

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Edith ya conoció el valor del Caravana de la Vida

Edith tiene 17 años y un bebé de 11 meses al que nunca ha llevado a un centro de salud. Así como ella, muchas otras personas con algún malestar o enfermedad, no acceden a los servicios de salud por distintos motivos, por ejemplo, la distancia entre sus comunidades y los centros de salud.

Es con la llegada de la Caravana de la Vida que Edith decide atenderse con un doctor quien le brinda atención primaria, hace un diagnóstico preliminar y la deriva a un hospital para hacerse algunos exámenes complementarios. Además le recomienda que visite frecuentemente el establecimiento de salud. 

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