Bárbara D'Achille (1941–1989) was a Latvian-Peruvian journalist and conservationist.Fixemer, Maria. "Environmental Writing in Times of Terrorism: The Peruvian Journalist Bárbara D’Achille.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (Spring 2019), no. 10. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/8498. She was born in Latvia but spent most of her adult life in Western Europe and South America. She wrote for El Comercio, where she managed a regular ecology section. Brown describes her as Peru's foremost environmental journalist. She also consulted for the World Wildlife Fund and other international NGOs.
In 1989 she was killed by members of Shining Path while traveling in Huancavelica. She was 48. A colleague, Esteban Bohorquez, was also killed.Human Rights Watch. Defending the Earth: Abuses of Human Rights and the Environment 1992. Page xiv.
D'Achille had a daughter, Daina.Zapata, Javier. "Daina D’Achille: 'Mi madre fue asesinada a pedradas por Sendero Luminoso'". Peru21. 12/09/2023. Pampa Galeras – Barbara D'Achille National Reserve is named after D'Achille, as is the Manu parrotlet (Nannopsittaca dachilleae). D'Achille's murder is discussed in the final report of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.Informe Fina. Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (in Spanish). A character resembling D'Achille appears in Mario Vargas Llosa's novel Death in the Andes.Isabelle Tauzin. Le déchiffrage archaïque et les démons du pouvoir: Lituma en los Andes. Isabelle Tauzin-Castellanos. L’Amérique latine écartelée: pouvoir et violence à l’épreuve de la fiction, PUF; CNED, 2012, 9782130606871. hal-02280578. Page 16.
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