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

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 2023 when former army intelligence chief turned-politician Daniel Urresti Elera was s…