Ethnocacerism

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The Ethnocacerist movement (

The name "ethnocacerism" is composed of two parts: the first evokes Peru's ethnic identity (specifically, its origins with the Quechua, an Indigenous people often identified in the popular imagination with the Inca); the second indicates the movement's veneration of 19th century president and war hero Andrés Avelino Cáceres, who led a guerrilla resistance campaign against occupying Chilean troops during the War of the Pacific. Due to the latter, the movement also demands the return of the territories of Arica and Tarapacá that were lost to Chile in the war.

Many members of the movement are armed forces veterans of Peru's internal wars or the border disputes with Ecuador in the 1980s and 1990s.^[1]

History

Origins

The ideas of ethnocacerism originated from lawyer Isaac Humala, and its practice as a doctrine was begun by his sons Ollanta Humala and Antauro Humala in 1987 during the war against the Shining Path.^[2][3] Etnocacerism began as a military doctrine and organizing strategy, not a political doctrine, that was contesting the military doctrine and strategic errors of the Peruvian armed forces, which viewed the Indigenous countryside as a foreign territory and colony. Ollanta Humala explains that ethnocacerism began from the personal experiences of soldiers on the field in clandestine study groups. While critical of high military and political officials, it was developed to be an effective military doctrine that spoke to the experiences of Indigenous peoples, viewed the war as a political campaign as well as a military one, and would present an alternative to the Shining Path.^{[citation needed]}

Isaac Humala founded the Instituto de Estudios Etnogeopolíticos (IEE) in 1989 to serve as an ethnocacerist think tank.^[4]

Locumba Uprising

Ethnocacerism became a popular political doctrine following an uprising in

Antauro gained international prominence on 1 January 2005 by occupying a rural police station in Andahuaylas, Apurimac, an action dubbed "El Andahuaylazo".^[6] Four police officers and one gunman died on the first day of the siege.^[5][7] 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 and was sentenced to 19 years in prison. He is expected to be released in 2024.^[3]

Contemporary history

While not affiliated with Antuaro Humala, the Plurinational Association of Tawantinsuyo Reservists (ASPRET) was formed as an ethnocarcerist militia in 2011^[8]

The main current political party espousing ethnocacerism is

In 2018, members of ASPRET formed an alliance with the Militarized Communist Party of Peru, called the United Democratic Andean Revolutionary Front of Peru (Spanish: Frente Unido Democrático Andino Revolucionario del Perú).^[9] The alliance was dissolved in 2022, following allegations that the MCPC had supported Pedro Castillo during the 2021 election.

ANTAURO, another party founded by Antauro Humala, was formed in 2023.

Ideology

The ethnocacerist movement has been described as having fascist traits,^{[3][10][11][12][13][14]} with Vice calling it "an idiosyncratic mix of economic populism, xenophobia — especially towards Peru's southern neighbor Chile — and the mythologizing of the supposed racial superiority of 'copper skinned' Andeans. It also takes an old school machista view of women’s rights while Isaac Humala ... called for the summary shooting of homosexuals and corrupt officials".^[3] According to Harper's Magazine, "Anti-Semitic, anti-Chilean 'news' ran alongside xenophobic editorials" in the movement's newspaper, Ollanta (later named Antauro), and ethnocacerists have called for 25% of children to be taken by the state and conscripted.^[5] Anthropologist Norma Correa of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru has stated: "Supposedly, ethnocacerism is about inclusion, but really it excludes so many citizens in a society as diverse as [Peru's], ... It’s not just whites. Ethnocacerism has no place for Afro-Peruvians, Amazonian natives or even mestizos".^[3]

Ethnocacerists distinguish themselves from both right-wing and "Eurocentric" left-wing politics in Peru, saying they oppose capitalism, fascism, and Marxism, and instead intend to create an organic indigenous ideology based on Peru's historical civilizations.^[15] Their use of the slogan "ni derecha ni izquierda" traces itself to Juan Velasco Alvarado's military government which was unaligned to either the United States (First World) or Soviet Union (Second World).^[16] This position of non-alignment and third-worldism meant looking for solutions in Peruvian and Latin American history, such as the rebel hero Tupac Amaru and writer José Carlos Mariátegui.

Territorial views

Following from his rejection of Peruvian nationalism, Antauro Humala has condemned Peru's present borders as colonial impositions. A common slogan of his ethnic nationalism is that Peruvian nationalism wants to “reclaim the word ‘Peru’” while his ethnic nationalism wants to reclaim “the concept of tawantinsuyo” (the Quechua name for the Inca Empire), because “as an ethnic nationalist, I cannot respect criollo borders...my ancestral homeland encompasses Tucumán all the way to Pasto. We are a single people disseminated amongst various criollo states”.^[15]

Antauro calls the Andeans countries and regions “the Inkan International” ("La Internacional Inkaica").^[17] The territorial views of ethnocacerists would expand Peru's population from around 30 million to over 100 million people.^[5]

Ethnocacerists supported Evo Morales's 2019 re-election and condemned his subsequent resignation and replacement as "fascist" and "neocolonialist".^[18]

See also

• Ollanta Humala
• Chilenophobia
• Locumba uprising
• Peruvian Nationalist Party
• Union for Peru
• Go on Country
• Peru Wins
• Indigenism
• National Bolshevism
• Plurinational Association of Tawantinsuyo Reservists
• Racial nationalism

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