Bárbara D'Achille

Bárbara D'Achille (1941-1989) was a Latvian-Peruvian journalist and conservationist.[1] She was born in Latvia but spent most of her adult life in Western Europe and South America.[2] She wrote for El Comercio, where she managed a regular ecology section.[3] Brown describes her as Peru's foremost environmental journalist.[4] She also consulted for the World Wildlife Fund and other international NGOs.[2]

Bárbara D'Achille

In 1989 she was killed by members of Shining Path while traveling in Huancavelica.[1] She was 48.[1] A colleague, Esteban Bohorquez, was also killed.[5]

D'Achille had a daughter, Daina.[6] Pampa Galeras – Barbara D'Achille National Reserve is named after D'Achille, as is the Manu parrotlet (Nannopsittaca dachilleae).[2] D'Achille's murder is discussed in the final report of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.[7] A character resembling D'Achille appears in Mario Vargas Llosa's novel Death in the Andes.[8]

References
  1. Fixemer, Maria. "Environmental Writing in Times of Terrorism: The Peruvian Journalist Bárbara D’Achille.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (Spring 2019), no. 10. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8498.
  2. O'Neill JP, Munn CA, Franke I (1991). "Nannopsittaca dachilleae: a new species of parrotlet from eastern Peru" (PDF). Auk. 108: 225–229.
  3. Chastain, Andra, and Timothy Lorek (2020). Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 9780822987321.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. Brown, Cynthia G. (1990). In Desperate Straits: Human Rights in Peru After a Decade of Democracy and Insurgency. Human Rights Watch. ISBN 9780929692647.
  5. Human Rights Watch. Defending the Earth: Abuses of Human Rights and the Environment 1992. Page xiv.
  6. Zapata, Javier. "Daina D’Achille: 'Mi madre fue asesinada a pedradas por Sendero Luminoso'". Peru21. 12/09/2023.
  7. Informe Fina. Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (in Spanish).
  8. Isabelle Tauzin. Le déchiffrage archaïque et les démons du pouvoir: Lituma en los Andes. Isabelle Tauzin-Castellanos. L’Amérique latine écartelée: pouvoir et violence à l’épreuve de la fiction, PUF; CNED, 2012, 9782130606871. hal-02280578. Page 16.
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