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Ricardo Uceda

Ricardo Uceda is one of Peru’s most renowned investigative journalists. His book Death in the Little Pentagon: the secret killing fields of the Peruvian army (Editorial Planeta, 2004) was shortlisted for the 2005 Ulysses Prize.

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openDemocracy presents the third extract from the 2005 Ulysses Prize shortlist: Peruvian journalist Ricardo Uceda’s unique reconstruction of his country’s brutal “dirty war” in the early 1980s between the army and the “Shining Path” guerrillas.