Comments on: Re-enactment in Ayacucho – The battle that liberated a continent http://enperublog.com/2009/12/13/recreation-in-ayacucho-the-battle-that-liberated-a-continent/ All you could ever want to know about Peru Sun, 26 Feb 2023 22:03:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: Juancho http://enperublog.com/2009/12/13/recreation-in-ayacucho-the-battle-that-liberated-a-continent/comment-page-1/#comment-14972 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:26:04 +0000 http://enperublog.com/?p=3631#comment-14972 In the 1970s there used to be re-enactments, peopled -as today- with high school students. Reprising their roles in the period, those from Huamanga would play the liberation army while those from Huanta protrayed the royalist forces. The traditional rivalry between the two cities sometimes resulted in embarrassing episodes such as the wrong “troops” having the advantage on the field at key moments.

The biggest event came with the 1974 celebration of the sesquicentennial of the battle, but the civil war put an end to the re-enactments in the 1980s.

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