March of SUTEP leaders to Government Palace
March of SUTEP leaders accompanied by parliamentarians to the Government Palace on May 30, 1991 to request an audience with President Fujimori's wife regarding teachers' demands. The action took place in the context of a teachers' strike that had been harshly repressed with thousands of arrests, disappearances and assassinations.
On May 30, 1991, the leaders of SUTEP (Sindicato Único de Trabajadores en la Educación del Perú), accompanied by three parliamentarians and other union members, marched across Lima's Plaza de Armas towards the Government Palace. The objective of the march was to request an audience with the wife of President Alberto Fujimori to ask her to take a position on the teachers' demands. This march took place in the context of the SUTEP strike that began on May 8, 1991, whose repression resulted in the temporary arrest of 2,000 teachers, twenty disappearances and 14 murders. The days prior to this march had been marked by violence: on May 13, Porfirio Suni was murdered in Pucará (Puno), on May 17, seven teachers were arrested by the Army in Ayacucho, and on May 24, Pablo Mamani Marchena and Germán Macedo were murdered.