Overview
- Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos sent a notarized letter ordering Congressman Jorge Montoya to retract his claim that Sendero Luminoso operates in universities and at San Marcos.
- The document says Montoya’s statements lack probative support and damage the institution’s image, and it asks for a public rectification.
- Montoya made the allegation in media comments tied to the October 15 protests in which young musician Eduardo Ruiz Sanz was killed.
- Faculty figures, including Letters dean Marcel Velázquez, publicly rejected the remarks as false and as a discourse of hate.
- Interior Minister Vicente Tiburcio previously apologized for similar assertions about San Marcos students after criticism, while Montoya has not retracted.