Two Peru journalists' bodies found days apart

Two Peru journalists’ bodies found days apart
IPI, citing other recent ‘disturbing’ incidents, calls for full investigation

IPI Contributors Florence Peschke and Nicholas Wong

Mar 10, 2017

Authorities in Peru should investigate all theories into the deaths of two journalists in apparently separate incidents whose remains were found just days apart in recent weeks, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today.

Police said that the remains, from which several limbs were missing, were so mutilated that Yactayo’s identity could not be confirmed until late last week.

Yactayo – a former editor and producer for two of Peru’s biggest broadcast news shows, América Televisión and Frecuencia Latina – was last seen on Feb. 24, after friends had dropped him off three blocks from his house.

On Feb. 27, the dismembered body of 55-year-old journalist José Feliciano Yactayo Rodríguez was found in a rural area outside Lima in a suitcase that had been torched, police reported. Sugarcane farmers found Yactayo’s half-burnt body as they tried to extinguish the fire.

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José Feliciano Yactayo Rodríguez



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