'This program affected women who were farmworkers, the poorest, with the least education, and that’s why the state doesn’t help them. I think these are the most forgotten women in Peru.' Via latimes
The first time nurses visited Gloria Basilio, she told them she wasn’t interested in sterilization surgery. She already had three children but wanted more.
His government’s family planning program was once hailed as a way to reduce widespread poverty by ensuring that low-income and less educated families would receive the same access to birth control as higher-income families. The doctors “obeyed a scale of orders that were controlled by the highest level of the country,” said Milton Campos, an attorney at DEMUS, a Peruvian women’s rights group representing accusers.Almost from the beginning, the family program was dogged by complaints that women were being coerced.
The sterilization case “complicates the fujimorista narrative — that they are in favor of the people, in favor of the poor,” said Jo-Marie Burt, a political scientist and Peru expert at George Mason University. The 2018 complaint describes fairs held to gather large groups of people who would be good candidates for sterilization. Potential targets were offered food and clothes as incentives.
Maria Elena Carbajal, 49, who says she is a victim of forced sterilization, helps wrap up the Peruvian flag displayed at a rally in Lima with the names of other accusers.Cesar Nakazaki, Fujimori’s attorney, said that the president was not involved in running the program and although in some instances doctors did not get consent, that doesn’t mean it was government policy.
Costa Bauer has argued that the case has gone on too long and is waiting on Peru’s top court to rule on a petition seeking to close it.Carbajal says she was sterilized in 1996 right after the birth of her son. Afterward, her husband abandoned her and her children. She said that when her husband learned what had happened, he accused her of having the operation so she could have another sexual partner.
“I went to the market and the first thing I saw was baby clothes or I saw a child and I wanted to have a child,” said Loayza, who is now 40. “I don’t have that longing anymore.”Raquel Reynoso, who helps lead an association seeking reparations, said there is a shortage of psychologists at the health centers in the far-off areas where many of the women live.
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