What is Diálogos?
Diálogos, with Gisela Ortiz, is a space for open and necessary conversations about human rights, memory, and justice in Peru. Hosted by an activist and family member of a victim of the internal armed conflict (1980–2000), this podcast seeks to recover the memories of victims’ families and turn them into tools of resistance against forgetting and impunity.
Episode 16, May 7
The episode offered an essential conversation about Peru’s political reality after the first electoral round. Méndez discussed what the results revealed, how citizens outside Lima expressed their vote, and what changes could be seen in Peru’s electoral map.
The conversation focused on regional dynamics, current political tensions, and the transformation of voting patterns across the country. It was a critical and timely discussion aimed at helping listeners better understand Peru’s political present.
Episode 15, April 23
In this conversation, Agüero reflected on post-conflict Peru, the wounds that remain open, the country’s debt to victims, the current social crisis, and the political meaning of memory. The episode addressed justice, reparations, inequality, racism, citizenship, and the value of voting in a deeply unequal society.
It was a thoughtful, critical, and urgent conversation for a better understanding of Peru’s present.
Episode 14, April 9, 2026
Tonight on Diálogos con Gisela, we will be joined by María Ysabel Cedano, a distinguished lawyer, feminist, and human rights defender, and a graduate of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
Throughout her career, she has played a fundamental role in defending women’s rights, including her work as director of DEMUS, the Study for the Defense of Women’s Rights, and as Director General for Women at the Ministry of Women.
She has also promoted strategic litigation against the Peruvian state before the Inter-American Human Rights System, establishing herself as a key voice in the struggle for justice, equality, and the rights of women and LGBTQ+ people
Episode 13, March 26, 2026
In episode 13, Gisela spoke with documentary filmmaker Luis Cintora, whose work has taken him to countries like Ecuador, Spain, Mongolia, Algeria, Somalia, and Thailand.
In Peru, Luis has produced a series of documentaries on memory, human rights, and armed conflict, particularly in the regions of Ayacucho and Huancavelica. As part of this work of recovering memory, he has also collaborated with various human rights organizations, including the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF).
In the interview, Luis reflects on the role of documentary film in the construction of memory, the importance of collecting testimonies, and the challenges of representing violence from an ethical and committed perspective.
🎬 🎞️Know more about his work: https://www.facebook.com/lucho.cintora
Episode 12, March 12, 2026
In this episode of Dialogues with Gisela, we speak with Karina Pacheco, anthropologist, editor, and writer. From San Francisco, we reflect on Peru through the lens of her novels, human rights, and the path of Counter-Pedagogies of Forgetting, planting seeds of memory.
📚 ✎𓂃Know more about her work: https://www.facebook.com/karina.pachecomedrano
Episodio 11, February 26, 2026
In this episode of Dialogues with Gisela, we speak with Tania Pariona, a social worker with a master’s degree in Human Development, former Peruvian Congresswoman, and current Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Coordinator (CNDDHH).
We also discuss the fundamental role of the CNDDHH and its 40 years of work focused on the promotion, defense, and education of human rights; accompanying communities; making rights violations visible; and sustaining agendas of memory, justice, and dignity in Peru.
Episode 10, February 12 2026
In this episode of Diálogos con Gisela Ortiz, we speak with Gloria Cano, representative of APRODEH, about the current state of human rights in Peru and the tensions shaping the search for truth, justice, and reparation.
Episode 9, January 29, 2026
In this episode of Gisela Ortiz, Gisela speaks with Zuliana Lainez, president of the National Association of Journalists of Peru (ANP), to examine journalism's role in defending human rights and preserving historical memory. Drawing on the Uchuraccay case, in which eight journalists were killed on January 26, 1983, Gisela and Zuliana will reflect on networks of solidarity and support for families, through the lens of truth, justice, and non-repetition, in the context of Peru’s internal armed conflict.
📰 The current challenges facing the journalism profession.
⚖️ Legacy and justice for journalists who have been victims.
🎙️ Memory as a tool—and as a social front—against impunity.
Episode 8, 2025 Summary
Diálogos con Gisela estuvo de descanso estas semanas, pero no dejamos de mirar lo que pasaba. Hoy volvemos para retomar el programa, compartir un resumen de lo trabajado y actualizar la información clave de los últimos días de 2025 y de los primeros de 2026.
Gracias por acompañarnos y por ser parte de estos diálogos con Gisela Ortiz, de Radio Harawi.
Episode 7, December 11, 2025
This week, as we commemorate International Human Rights Day, we return to the protests in Peru in December 2022, when thousands of people took to the streets to defend their vote and demand change. The State’s response was repression and the disproportionate use of force, leaving dozens of people killed, especially in the Andean regions.
In this episode of Diálogos con Gisela Ortiz, we speak with Bertha Aguilar and Milagros Samillán, sisters of two victims of state repression. Through their voices, we learn who their brothers were before they became numbers, how they lived through those days of violence and mourning, and what it means to continue demanding truth, justice, and reparation from a State that still has not responded.
🎧 Listen, share, and stand with the families who refuse to give up.
✊ On International Human Rights Day, we join the demands for justice and non-repetition made by the families of the victims of state repression in #Peru.
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Episode 6, November 24, 2025
The new episode of #diálogoscongisela is dedicated to women—wives, sisters, daughters who had to reinvent themselves to sustain their household economy in the absence of their loved ones who disappeared or were killed during the period of political violence.
🗓️ This November 29, join us to meet some of these women and their enterprises. 🎧 Listen to their stories and support them by buying their products. ✊🧶
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You can find some of the products they produce in our Harawi Store
Episode 5, November 13, 2025
In this episode of Dialogues with Gisela, Gisela talks with Franco Mora Félix, a Peruvian archaeologist and former member of the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF), who has extensive experience in forensic investigations and is certified by the Latin American Association of Forensic Anthropology.
We invite you to listen to the interview to learn more about Franco’s work as a forensic archaeologist, the role of EPAF, and the ongoing challenges that forensic archaeologists, anthropologists, and families still face today in their search for their disappeared loved ones.
👉 If you’re interested in supporting the efforts of relatives, human-rights activists, and artists working for memory, justice, and truth, like 👍, share, and subscribe to #radioharawi.
📻 #vocesporlamemoria #diálogoscongisela #epaf_forense
Episode 4 - October 30, 2025
In Diálogos, Gisela talks with Sharmelí Bustios, journalist and daughter of journalist Hugo Bustios, who was murdered in 1988 by members of the Peruvian army. They talk about her family’s search for justice, the perverse effects of the amnesty law, and the political and legal implications in the current context.
👉 If you’re interested in supporting the efforts of relatives, human-rights activists, and artists working for memory, justice, and truth, like 👍, share, and subscribe to #radioharawi.
📻 #vocesporlamemoria #diálogoscongisela
Episode 3 - October 16, 2025
In the third episode of Diálogos, Gisela Ortiz talks with Álvaro Portales, a Peruvian graphic artist whose work focuses on social, political, and memory-related issues — using his art to contribute to the fight against forgetting.
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📻 #vocesporlamemoria #diálogoscongisela #epaf_forense
Episode 2- October 1st, 2025
Just days before the 34th anniversary of the mail-bomb murder of journalist Melisa Alfaro (October 10, 1991), Gisela Ortiz speaks with Norma Méndez about the passage from grief to memory and the ongoing pursuit of justice. The conversation traces Norma’s years of perseverance in preserving Melisa’s story, the institutional obstacles she has faced along the way, and the emotional barriers imposed by today’s climate of impunity in Peru.
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Episode 1 - September 18, 2025
“This Thursday is our first program, and we’ll be talking with Carmen Amaro Cóndor. She is a family member connected to the La Cantuta case, as well as a journalist and early education teacher. She’ll speak with us about the families’ 33-year struggle for justice in the Cantuta case, and about how the amnesty law has affected victims’ right to truth and justice. We’re counting on you to join us.”
👉 If you’re interested in supporting the efforts of relatives, human-rights activists, and artists working for memory, justice, and truth, like 👍, share, and subscribe to #radioharawi.
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