Murder of Pablo Mamani Marchena and Germán Macedo
Pablo Mamani Marchena and Germán Macedo, SUTEP teachers, were assassinated on May 24, 1991 in Pucará, Puno, during the repression of the May 1991 teachers' strike. Their deaths were part of a wave of violence that left 14 teachers murdered and 20 disappeared.
Pablo Mamani Marchena and Germán Macedo, teachers members of SUTEP (Sindicato Único de Trabajadores en la Educación del Perú), were assassinated on May 24, 1991 in the province of Pucará, Puno. These murders occurred in the context of the teachers' strike that began on May 8, 1991, whose repression resulted in the temporary arrest of 2,000 teachers, twenty disappearances and 14 murders. Days earlier, on May 13, another teacher, Porfirio Suni, had also been assassinated in the same province. The World Confederation of Organizations of Professional Teachers (CMOPE) alleged a series of murders, arrests and acts of violence against SUTEP teachers during this period.