LIMA — Augusto Kague was only 12 when the U.S. government reached far south to his Peruvian farming town and tore his family apart.

It was January 1942 — a month after Japan attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, killing 2,400 and drawing the United States into World War II. The roundup of 110,000 Japanese-Americans had begun.

But internment efforts went far beyond U.S. borders — a little-reported fact to this day.