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Latvian ecological journalist
Bárbara D'Achille

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

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

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

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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