Chapter 67
Lieutenant Lozano heard with alarm the noises coming from the office, took his regulatory firearm and decidedly entered into it. What he saw frosted his blood, Captain Mayorga, who had moments before entered the office, took a gun to his mouth and pulled the trigger. A large blood stain covered the wall behind it. On the floor lay the lifeless body of the general, with his neck grotesquely twisted. The news arrived to the press totally filtered. The coverage given by the Lima newspapers was brief and limited. In short, they reported that a multinational archaeological expedition in the vicinity of the Cordillera Huayhuash was attacked by bandits of unknown origin, probably for purposes of looting, which had finally been beaten back by a company of the Peruvian army that happened to
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