On July 9th tens of thousands of workers and
peasants took to the streets in Peru
as part a national strike. The strike had been called to protest against the
right wing economic policies of the government of Alan García.
On June 26, at around 10.40pm, comrade Ángel Humberto Martínez Cerón
was assassinated just a few metres from his home. He was the General
Coordinator of the "January 24" Revolutionary Socialist Students Block (known
as BERS-24). The political activity this revolutionary young militant was
involved in was the reason why the ruling class decided to silence him.