Police interventions in La Cantuta

In 1987 there were police interventions in the National University of Education La Cantuta as part of a repressive wave of the State against the presence of the PCP-SL in public universities. These interventions were a response to the Shining Path's takeover of symbolic and doctrinal spaces in the university, which had experienced a massification with a student population mostly from the provinces and of scarce economic resources. The police interventions in 1987 represented the highest point of state repression in La Cantuta before the subsequent militarized intervention of the university since 1991. The context of these interventions was framed in the early interest of the PCP-SL in La Cantuta since its reopening in 1980, establishing links since the mobilizations for free education in Huanta (1969).