Líber Arce

Líber Walter Arce Risotto (30 October 1938 – 14 August 1968[1]) was the first student killed by police forces in Uruguay under the government of Jorge Pacheco Areco.

Líber Arce was a student at the Dental Prosthetics School of the University of the Republic's Faculty of Dentistry, and worked at a street market with his parents.

In the early hours of 9 August, Interior Minister Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga – under the orders of Jorge Pacheco Areco – ordered searches of the University of the Republic, the Faculties of Agronomy, Architecture, Psychology, Medicine, and the National School of Fine Arts, with the justification that those places contained weapons and pamphlets violating the security measures then in force.

[2] The Central Board of the University of the Republic denounced all the damage caused, the theft of teaching material, documentation, and all the files with the students' personal data.

[2] On Friday, 20 September 1968, the police suppressed another demonstration of students against the government policy of Pacheco Areco, opening fire with riot shotguns and killing Susana Pintos (28) and Hugo de los Santos (19).