In 1948, General Odría led a military coup in Peru that resulted in the intervention of universities and the repression of student leaders. This event marked a period of military control over educational institutions, affecting the influence of political parties such as the Peruvian Aprista Party (PAP) and the Communist …
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.
In 1962 Abimael Guzmán joined the UNSCH as a teacher. He soon became one of the main promoters of the political work of the FER and the Communist Party in the university and the region. In 1964 Guzmán was appointed Director of the Basic Cycle (General Studies) and later became …
In 1964, after a national conference, the Communist Party split, giving rise to the PC Unity, which assumes the official line of the Soviet Union of Nikita Kruchev, and the PC Red Flag, identified with the China of Mao Tse Tung. Most of the peasant and youth communist bases are …
The events of Huanta in June 1969 were the litmus test that convinced the Red Flag sector led by Guzmán to initiate their own path towards what they called the reconstitution of the Communist Party. The Huanta struggle marks a turning point in the regional history of Ayacucho and the …
