- Movimiento Etnocacerista
-
Peru
This article is part of the series:
Politics and government of
PeruExecutive PowerJudicial PowerLegislative PowerAuton. institutionsElectionsPolitical partiesRegional gov'tsLocal gov'ts
Peru's Movimiento Etnocacerista (aka Movimiento Nacionalista Peruano or "Peruvian Nationalist Movement") is a group of ethnic nationalists. The name etnocacerista is composed of two parts: the first evokes Peru's ethnic identity (specifically, its origins with the Quechua, a Native American people often identified in the popular imagination with the Inca, a pre-Columbian royal group); the second indicates the group'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.
Most of its members are armed forces veterans of Peru's internal war or the border disputes with Ecuador and Chile in the 1980s and 1990s.
External links
- L'un des frères Humala sera-t-il le Hugo Chávez du Pérou? (latinreporters.com; in French)
- Quiénes son los etnocaceristas (BBC; in Spanish)
- Ollanta Humala habla con la BBC (BBC; in Spanish)
Categories:- Guerrilla organizations
- Nationalism
- History of Peru
- Politics of Peru
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.