Susana Pintos

Susana Pintos Lepra (25 September 1939 – 21 September 1968 ) was one of the thirteen student martyrs who were killed in Uruguay between 1968 and 1985. She was a student at the School of Construction of the University of Labor of Uruguay and a militant of the (FEUU), the ANCAP Federation (FANCAP), and the Union of Communist Youth (UJC). Her death occurred on 21 September 1968, after she was shot by police during the suppression of a student demonstration. She also began studies at the School of Construction, joining the FEUU.

Killing In 1968, Jorge Pacheco Areco of the Colorado Party ruled in Uruguay. He governed under the constant approval of a constitutional expedient, the , which allowed for the suspension of individual rights. In this context, on 14 August, the dentistry student Líber Arce died. He had been shot two days earlier, when the government ordered that a demonstration demanding free transportation for Uruguayan students be put down. Arce, in this way, became Uruguay's first student martyr.

One month after his death, the FEUU decided to call a protest demonstration against the government's repressive attacks. This took place on 20 September, at the auditorium of the University of the Republic. The government again responded with force; police had recently received a shipment of riot shotguns ordered from the United States, and they opened fire with these on demonstrators in the university's esplanade. Hugo de los Santos, a student of the Faculty of Economics, was shot and wounded. Pintos ran to assist him, holding a white shirt as a sign of peace, and was also wounded by police forces. She died the next day at the Hospital de Clínicas in Montevideo.

On 9 October 2008, a Montevideo plaza located in front of ANCAP headquarters was named "Student Martyrs of ANCAP Susana Pintos and Santiago Rodríguez Muela". Her name was also given to the street formerly known as Carlo Magno, near the place where she lived.