Presumed-dead woman bangs on own coffin during funeral to be let out
Unbelievable. A funeral in Peru saw the unimaginable last week after it was interrupted when a knocking sound was heard from inside the coffin, Metro.co.uk reports. Rosa Isabel Cespedes Callaca’s family had gathered in Lambayeque to say their last goodbyes to her on April 26th after she had been involved in a serious car accident. […]
4 years ago
‘My decision to make not theirs…’ The women sterilised by the state in the 90s
It’s an unimaginable situation: a state-sanctioned sterilisation programme. But that’s what happened in Peru in the late 1990s… and more and more people – especially women – are now speaking out. Shockingly, without her knowledge Victoria Vigo was sterilised following an emergency caesarian in 1996. “I wanted to have more children, but that choice was […]
10 years ago