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Peru: Today marks 33 years since the Tarata Street terrorist attack

On July 16, 1992, the Lima district of Miraflores was rocked by one of the most brutal terrorist attacks in Peru's recent history. Shining Path, led by Abimael Guzman, detonated two car bombs carrying 500 kilos of dynamite and ANFO on Tarata Street.

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Who is the symbol of Peru's Tarata? Vanessa Quiroga, 33 years after the terrorist attack

Vanessa Quiroga was only 5 years old when a car bomb exploded on Tarata Street, in Lima's Miraflores district. Thirty-three years after the terrorist attack, Quiroga admits that, despite having become a professional woman, she still remembers with great pain how it marked her life forever.

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