Shining Path guerrillas, Sendero Luminoso, assassinated María Elena Moyano and dynamited her body on February 15, 1992. The murdered her in the presence of her sons, Gustavo and David Pineki, while the family attended a community event sponsored by a Vaso de Leche committee in Villa el Salvador. Her assassination had an impact on all Perú. A multitude attended her burial. Close to 300,000 persons accompanied the coffin in a monumental repudiation of the terror of the Shining Path. Why kill her? Assuredly, she represented hope to a country tired of violence and a danger to those who plotted terrorism.

With this book, I tried to recover the voice of Maria Elena Moyano- the voice echoed by thousands of Peruvian women. The book consists of the reconstructed testimony of the of the best representatives of Peruvian womanhood of the last decade.In this book, I tried to reconstruct María Elena Moyano´s words. Words that embrace a very significant and creative period for women in Perú. To retrieve her voice, to introduce her to those who did not know her, I gathered material from radio, television, newspapers, and magazines and book interviews that contained her statements. I organized the material by theme and date, designed the chapters, and added notes to give context to the information.