{"id":155333,"date":"2023-04-12T21:17:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T21:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culture.org\/?p=155333"},"modified":"2023-04-12T21:17:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T21:17:12","slug":"museum-of-tolerance-closed-by-ultra-conservative-lima-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culture.org\/art-and-culture\/museum-of-tolerance-closed-by-ultra-conservative-lima-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum of Tolerance Closed by Ultra-Conservative Lima Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":" \r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n
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Lima’s mayor, Rafael L\u00f3pez Aliaga, has shut down the Place of Memory, Tolerance and Social Inclusion (Lum), a museum dedicated to remembering Peru’s violent history.<\/span><\/p>\n The museum aimed to provide a space for understanding and healing the wounds from brutal clashes between government forces and guerrilla groups during the 1980s and 1990s.<\/span><\/p>\n Lum was managed by Peru’s Ministry of Culture and welcomed approximately 60,000 visitors annually.<\/span><\/p>\n It sought to commemorate the thousands of lives lost in the conflict and encourage discussions about the country’s past.<\/span><\/p>\n However, the museum’s closure comes as part of an ongoing ideological battle over how to remember Peru’s turbulent history.<\/span><\/p>\n Mayor L\u00f3pez Aliaga, a member of the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei and founder of the far-right National Renovation party, has been a vocal critic of the museum since its inception.<\/span><\/p>\n He claims that it promotes a “false narrative” of the war, which resulted in over 70,000 casualties, according to Peru’s truth and reconciliation commission.<\/span><\/p>\n The official reason given for the closure was that the museum failed to meet municipal safety standards.<\/span><\/p>\n Mayor L\u00f3pez Aliaga, a member of the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei and founder of the far-right National Renovation party, has been a vocal critic of the museum since its inception.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>\r\n\r\n Human rights activists and organizations have expressed alarm over the decision, arguing that it contributes to a growing trend of misinformation surrounding the atrocities committed by both the Peruvian military and the Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path.<\/span><\/p>\n Eduardo Gonz\u00e1lez Cueva, a human rights consultant at the International Centre for Transitional Justice in New York, believes the closure fits into a broader right-wing movement that denies government-related crimes in Latin America.<\/span><\/p>\n The European Union in Peru also weighed in on the issue, emphasizing the importance of historical memory for democracies.<\/span><\/p>\n In a tweet, the organization praised Lum as a place where citizens could learn about their past and reflect on the suffering endured during the conflict, with the goal of preventing its recurrence.<\/span><\/p>\n The museum’s closure coincides with political unrest in Peru since December, when former president Pedro Castillo staged a coup after failing to dissolve the country’s congress.<\/span><\/p>\n On the same day Lum’s closure was announced, Amnesty International was scheduled to present a report on police’s excessive use of force against civilian protestors at the museum.<\/span><\/p>\n L\u00f3pez Aliaga’s actions have raised concerns among human rights activists about the dangers of suppressing important historical events and the potential consequences of an uneducated population accepting misinformation as truth.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":155334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-and-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Controversial Decision Amid Ideological Struggle<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Human Rights Activists Express Concern<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Political Turmoil and Suppression of History<\/strong><\/h2>\n