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 be on maneuvers in the area. Immediately after the combat occurred a devastating earthquake that had flattened a couple of villages, the majority of whose inhabitants were at that time in pastoral work, so that the number of victims was reduced. They then gave details of the magnitude of the quake, so the news of the war episode was buried in a mass of geological information. Television only covered the ef
