In 1961, when the university still had less than four hundred students, the Frente Estudiantil Revolucionario (FER) was formed, promoted by the Youth of the Communist Party, which integrated a group of leftist and independent tendencies. The FER would soon become the hegemonic student organization at the UNSCH.
The Revolutionary Student Front (FER) won its first electoral victory at the San Antonio Abad del Cuzco University in 1962. This student front was founded in 1960 under the influence of the Cuban revolution and brought together a large number of students from Puno. The FER predominated in the Student …
In 1969, Luis Alberto Sánchez was forced to resign from his position as rector of San Marcos University, paving the way for leftist political currents to establish their dominance. Throughout the 1970s, despite the military government's attempts to depoliticize universities, Marxist-inspired groups, particularly those influenced by Maoist ideology, consolidated their …