Túpac Katari

Túpac Katari

Túpac Katari (also Túpaj Katari) (c. 1750 – 15 November 1781), born Julián Apasa, was a leader in the rebellions of indigenous people in Bolivia in the early 1780s.

A member of the Aymara, Apasa took the name "Tupac Katari" to honor two rebel leaders: Tomás Katari, and Tupac Amaru II. He raised an army of some 40,000 and laid siege to the city of La Paz in 1781. Katari and his wife, Bartolina Sisa set up court in El Alto and maintained the siege for 184 days, from March to June and from August to October. Sisa was a commander of the siege, and played the crucial rule following Katari's capture in April. The siege was broken by colonial troops who advanced from Lima and Buenos Aires. [Cite book
publisher = Verso
isbn = 9781844670703
last = Hylton
first = Forrest
title = Revolutionary horizons: Popular struggle in Bolivia
location = London
date = 2007]

Katari laid siege again later in the year, this time joined by Andrés Túpac Amaru, nephew of Tupac Amaru II. But Katari was again unsuccessful.

Despite his subsequent betrayal, defeat, torture, and execution (torn by his extremities into four pieces), Túpac Katari is remembered as a hero by modern indigenous movements in Bolivia, who call themselves "Katarismo". A Bolivian guerrilla group, the Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army, also bears his name.

ee also

* Tupac Amaru II

References

External links

* [http://tupackatari.org/ tupackatari.org] : Bolivian indigenous activist page (in Spanish) (link broken)
* [http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/09/28/coca_politics/ Boston Globe article] on Bolivian politics, mentioning Tupac Katari.
* [http://migs.concordia.ca/documents/RobinsSymbolicDiscourse.doc Great Rebellion of Peru and Upper Peru by Nicholas A. Robins]


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