University Youth and Political Violence in Peru: The La Cantuta Student Massacre and Its Memory, 1992–2000
This work investigates the construction of memories during the political period known as fujimorismo, which began with the "self-coup" of 1992 — when President Alberto Fujimori and the military high command carried out the coup d'état that transformed his government into a dictatorship until the year 2000. We aim to study the various forms of collective memory that emerged among students throughout the 1990s, surrounding the La Cantuta case: the killing of nine students and one professor at the Universidad Nacional de Educación Enrique Guzmán y Valle, perpetrated by an army death squad called "Colina."
Referenced in events
- Disappearance and execution of La Cantuta students and professor
- La Cantuta Massacre
- Disappearance of La Cantuta students and teacher
- Disappearance of teacher and nine students from La Cantuta University
- Kidnapping and disappearance of La Cantuta teacher and students
- La Cantuta Massacre - Kidnapping and murder of students and teacher