Hugo Bustíos Saavedra

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Sharmelí Bustíos Patiño, daughter of murdered Peruvian journalist Hugo Bustíos Saavedra, says her family plans to appeal a ruling that saw the convicted mastermind behind her father’s death walk free. (Photo: Cristina Zahar)

Daughter of slain Peruvian journalist Hugo Bustíos calls release of convicted mastermind ‘an insult’ to justice 

Sharmelí Bustíos Patiño was only 14 when her father, 38-year-old Peruvian journalist Hugo Bustíos Saavedra, was killed on November 24, 1988, while covering the war between the Peruvian army and leftist Shining Path guerrillas in a violent ambush near the town of Huanta. After nearly four decades of fighting to find her father’s killer, Sharmelí found justice in…

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