Antauro Humala

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Antauro Humala
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Personal details
Born
Antauro Igor Humala Tasso

(1963-06-29) 29 June 1963 (age 58)
Lima, Peru
Political partyUnion for Peru (after late-2010s)
Go on Country (before late-2010s)
Military service
AllegiancePeru
Branch/servicePeruvian Army
RankMajor

Antauro Igor Humala Tasso (born 29 June 1963) is a Peruvian Etnocacerist, a former army major, and anticolonial leader.[1]

Early life[]

Antauro Igor Humala Tasso was born in Lima, on June 29, 1963. Son of lawyers Isaac Humala and Elena Tasso. He is the brother of former president Ollanta Humala and the leader of the Ethnocacerist movement Frente Patriótico Peruano.

He studied at the Franco-Peruvian College of the city of Lima and at the National College of Sciences and Arts of Cuzco. He entered the National Agrarian University La Molina in the career of Agricultural Engineering.

Military career[]

In 1979, he entered the Military School of Chorrillos. He graduated from the 1985 promotion "Héroes de Concepción". He was head of the patrol in the anti-submersion fight in the 1980s. He participated as a captain, taking part in the war operations in 1995 during the Cenepa War. He proved to be an outstanding military man, so much so that in 1997 he was promoted to Major of the Peruvian Army.

Coup attempts[]

He attained international prominence on 1 January 2005 by occupying a rural police station in Andahuaylas, Apurimac.[2] Assisted by a large group of followers (press reports range from 70 to 300 in their estimates), demanded the resignation of President Alejandro Toledo, whom he accused of selling Peru out to foreign (particularly Chilean) investors.

Four police officers and one gunman died on the first day of the siege.[3] The following day Humala agreed to surrender, though had still failed to do so by the third day, claiming that the government had reneged on its promise to guarantee a "surrender with honour". Eventually he surrendered and was taken to Lima under arrest on 4 January 2005.

He and his brother Ollanta Humala had previously led 50 followers in the brief Locumba uprising (Levantamiento de Locumba) against President Alberto Fujimori during the dying days of his regime in October 2000. After the assault, carried out when the Fujimori regime was in the midst of crisis, the rebel group toured the Peruvian Andes denouncing the illegality of Fujimori and claiming the "dignity" of the Peruvian Armed Forces, according to him and his brother, in the hands of military leaders corrupt.[4] The two brothers call the movement they lead the "Movimiento Etnocacerista".[5]

Political career[]

In May of 2001, after the Locumba Uprising, Antauro Humala published his first book Ejercito Peruano: Milenarismo, Nacionalismo y Etnocacerismo in which he lays out Etnocacerismo, primarily its anticolonial military doctrine and critical Indigenist analysis of Peruvian history and society.

Humala was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in the April 2006 elections running under the Go on Country - Social Integration Party.

In the last 2020 parliamentary elections, he joined the political party "Unión por el Perú" (UPP), a party that obtained a total of 13 seats out of 130 nationwide.[6] Later that year, he was responsible for the removal of former President Martín Vizcarra.[7]

In the recent 2021 president election, Humala entered into an alliance with the candidate for Free Peru (Perú Libre), Pedro Castillo.[8] The alliance is conditioned on an early pardon from his prison sentence and his reinstatement into the military, potentially leading the armed forces. In return, he pledged to support Castillo and defend him from a potential military coup led by conservative generals with ties to the far right including former presidential candidate, Rafael "Porky" López Aliaga.[9][10]

Imprisonment[]

In 2006, Antauro Humala published his book Etnonacionalismo: Izquierda y Globalidad (Visión Etnocacerista) in which he laid out the anticolonial and Neo-Incan ideology of his Etnocacerist movement. Topics discussed in the book are the anti-indigenous racism of Peruvian society, Etnocacerism's place compared to former Indigenists such as José Carlos Mariátegui and José María Arguedas, and a plan for a 2nd Inca Empire (Confederation with Bolivia and Ecuador). A second and third editions expanded on the first one and were published on 2007 and 2011, respectively.

In September 2009 Antauro Humala was sentenced to 25 years in prison but,[11] it was reduced to between 17 and 19 years in prison. On 14 May 2011, Antauro Humala filed a lawsuit against journalist Jaime Bayly claiming Bayly was "disseminating inaccurate versions" of the events in 2005.[12]

In 2012 the National Penitentiary Institute transferred him to the high-security Callao Naval Base for "repeated violations of penitentiary regulations". There he joined Abimael Guzmán and Vladimiro Montesinos.[13]

On August 1st of that same year, his father Isaac Humala announced the publication of another book that Antauro had completed while imprisoned.[14] Antauro's book De La Guerra Etnosanta A La Iglesia Tawantinsuyana laid out the need to create a neo-incan religion that would coalesce the many varied religious traditions, both classical and contemporary, of the Indigenous Andean peoples.

In February 2015, a report from the Directorate of Criminalistics of the National Police of Peru (PNP) on the bodies of the 4 law enforcement officers who died in this coup, indicates that the bullets that caused their death came from above and behind , while Antauro Humala's group was ahead. The argument that there are witnesses claiming that it was by military snipers from the government of Alejandro Toledo turns out to be contradictory, because it was supposedly an assault. An investigation into these claims has already begun.[15]

In October 2018, the Peruvian Patriotic Front was founded. In June 2019, Antauro Humala announced that the foundation of Patriotic Front is official.

In September 2019, he presented his request for conditional release before the National Penitentiary Institute of Peru (INPE), in which he is serving a 19-year prison sentence in the Virgen de la Merced de Chorrillos prison.[16]

Personal life[]

His brother, Ollanta, has served as the 65th President of Peru (2011-2016).[17] His other brother, Ulises Humala, has also run for the presidency.

References[]

  1. ^ Carlos Aznárez (1 March 2005). "¿Quién es Antauro Humala?" [Who is Antauro Humala?] (in Spanish). Rebelion.org. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  2. ^ "Antauro Humala begins trial for 2005 assault on police station". Andean Air Mail & PERUVIAN TIMES. 28 March 2008. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  3. ^ "Perú: insurgentes se rinden" [Peru: insurgents surrender] (in Spanish). BBC News. 4 January 2005. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  4. ^ PERÚ, NOTICIAS EL COMERCIO (30 October 2015). "Ollanta Humala: las claves del levantamiento de Locumba | POLITICA". El Comercio Perú (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  5. ^ Libón, Oscar (23 May 2011). "Montesinos: "Levantamiento de Locumba facilitó mi fuga del país"". Correo. Lima. Archived from the original on 28 June 2014. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  6. ^ "Unión Por el Perú: 13 congresistas representarán a líder etnocacerista Antauro Humala". Panamericana Televisión. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  7. ^ "A Notorious Rebel Leader Just Got Peru's President Impeached From Prison". www.vice.com. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  8. ^ GESTIÓN, NOTICIAS (5 May 2021). "Antauro Humala expresa apoyo a Pedro Castillo nndc | PERU". Gestión (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  9. ^ PERU21, NOTICIAS (15 May 2021). "Pedro Castillo | Antauro Humala hace otra vez campaña desde el penal | POLITICA". Peru21 (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  10. ^ "Antauro Humala ofrece el control de las FFAA". Diario Expreso. 15 May 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  11. ^ Eduardo Avila (21 September 2009). "Peru: Antauro Humala Sentenced for 2005 Attack". Global Voices Online. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  12. ^ "Antauro Humala presentará demanda contra Jaime Bayly" [Antauro Humala present lawsuit against Jaime Bayly]. Terra (in Spanish). 14 May 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  13. ^ "Antauro Humala Transferred To Callao Naval Base". Peruvian Times. 4 April 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
  14. ^ "Presentan obra de Antauro Humala en Feria del Libro de Lima". Panamericana Televisión. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  15. ^ CORREO, NOTICIAS (2 February 2015). "Andahuaylazo: ¿Policías asesinados por francotiradores militares? | POLITICA". Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  16. ^ PERÚ, NOTICIAS EL COMERCIO (17 September 2019). "Antauro Humala solicitó libertad condicional | PERU". El Comercio Perú (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 May 2021.
  17. ^ "Antauro Humala demands to be set free". livinginperu.com. 17 July 2006. Archived from the original on 28 January 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2011.

External links[]

  • Antauro Humala's public letter from Centro Penitenciario de Piedras Gordas (Peru) / 26 March 2008: [1]
  • Video of the lawsuit (Lurigancho) and protests of Antauro Humala and etnocaceristas in jail: [2]


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