During his tenure at
Sí, Uceda published reports on the corruption of government officials, exposing army massacres and collaboration with drug lords. Following the story, Uceda was the subject of a police investigation for "falsifying information", a charge of which he was later cleared. In one high-profile case in 1993, members of a dissatisfied army faction directed Uceda to a
mass grave containing the corpses of nine students and one professor kidnapped from
La Cantuta University. When angry officials accused Uceda of
obstructing justice in response to his reporting—a crime punishable by a prison term—the
Peruvian Congress held a vote to guarantee his safety. In 1994, Ricardo Uceda resigned as editor-in-chief of
Sí to form a special investigative team at
El Comercio, then Peru's most popular daily newspaper. As with Uceda's
Sí reporting, the
Comercio team focused on cases of governmental corruption. One of the team's most notable successes came in 1998, when they exposed the misuse of state funds intended for the survivors of
El Niño-created floods and mudslides; the story resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of
Civil Defence Chief General Homero Nureña. In 2004, he published the book
Muerte en el Pentagonito: Los cementerios secretos del Ejército Peruano, which explored individual cases in the long conflict between the Shining Path and the Peruvian Army. ==Awards and recognition==