Lima Mayor Rafael López Aliaga suggested Peruvian journalist Gustavo Gorriti should be killed at a September 9 press conference for the inauguration of the city’s Via Expresa Sur construction project. ListenROME – In what has been dubbed an unprecedented move, last week Lima mayor Rafael Lopez Aliaga at the last minute was denied front-row tickets to a papal audience, and the photo with the pope that came with it. Aliaga, mayor of Lima since 2023, is also leader of the conservative Popular Renewal party and is a candidate in Peru’s presidential and congressional elections, to be held April 12. The private audience was denied, however, Aliaga was given special baciamano tickets, meaning front-row tickets which come with a papal photo and handshake, for Leo XIV’s Sept. 17 public general audience. Victims wrote to several Vatican officials, as well as the pope, to voice their concerns.