Bodies of students found in Huamanga
On July 21, 1991, the lifeless bodies of two UNSCH obstetrics students, Mariscote Santa Cruz and Leoncio Espinoza, who had been kidnapped a week earlier, were found. This event was part of a wave of selective assassinations against the university community perpetrated by undercover military agents.
On July 21, 1991, the bodies of Mariscote Santa Cruz and Leoncio Espinoza, both students of Obstetrics at the National University of San Cristobal de Huamanga (UNSCH), were found dead. Both students had been kidnapped a week before their bodies were found. This event occurred in the context of a series of selective murders perpetrated by groups linked to the military intelligence services against members of the university community. The murders were part of covert operations that intensified between 1989 and 1991 in the city of Huamanga, directed mainly against students, teachers and workers of the UNSCH.