Fifty thousand people are mobilized for near Lord Captive, a carved wooden Christ taking off in procession every October in the tiny town of Ayabaca, in the Andes of northern Peru. In fact it is already a miracle that so many people can live together in such a small space, but the Lord is credited Captive performing all impossible: lame walk, heal sick, addicted within days to stop taking drugs. In return, the penitents, as his devotees call themselves, do not hesitate to tear your hands, elbows, knees and bloodied back on the rock and mud cordilleranos an offering in exchange for a miracle. The history dates back to 1751 and picture paints a magical home for believers. Today, facing his old blunt, one understands why Ecuadorians cross the border to see it, and why from overseas Peruvians do return and queues during the morning, and sleep on the street so blessed to be known only by one of her looks.
Photojournalist since 2002. I worked as a photojournalist at El Comercio until 2014. The main assignments are the wars in Iraq and Syria, elections in Venezuela and the funeral of Hugo Chávez in 2013, earthquakes in Chile in 2010 and Ecuador in 2016, voodoo ceremonies in Haiti, Occupy Wall Street in New York, social and political reporting in Cuba, the Rohingya crisis. Special coverages in Peru on illegal mining in the Amazon, Shining Path in Peru, earthquake in Peru in 2007, Qoyllur Riti, Takanakuy, Shamans and the pilgrimage of the Captive.
