Isaac Humala Núñez (born 1931) is a labour
lawyer
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from
Ayacucho
Ayacucho (, qu, Ayak'uchu) is the capital city of Ayacucho Region and of Huamanga Province, Ayacucho Region, Peru.
During the Inca Empire and Viceroyalty of Peru periods the city was known by the name of Huamanga (Quechua: Wamanga), and it c ...
and the ideological leader of the ''
Movimiento Etnocacerista'', a group of
ethnic nationalists in
Peru
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.
He is a former
communist
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leader who served as the model for a colourful character in Peruvian novelist
Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa (, ), is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Vargas Ll ...
's novel "
Conversation in the Cathedral
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." He was Vargas Llosa's teacher of
Marxism-Leninism when the writer became a member of a university communist cell.
Personal life
Isaac Humala Núñez, who is of Andean origin and speaks
Quechua
Quechua may refer to:
*Quechua people, several indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru
*Quechuan languages, a Native South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language
**So ...
,
is the father of
Ollanta Humala
Lieutenant colonel Ollanta Moisés Humala Tasso (; born 27 June 1962) is a Peruvian politician and former military officer who served as President of Peru from 2011 to 2016. Originally a socialist and left-wing nationalist, he is considered ...
, a former president of
Peru
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. His wife Elena Tasso Heredia is from an old Italian family that established itself in Peru at the end of the 19th century. One of his other sons,
Antauro Humala
Antauro Igor Humala Tasso (born 29 June 1963) is a Peruvian ethnocacerist, a former army major, and nationalist leader.
Early life
Antauro Igor Humala Tasso was born in Lima, on June 29, 1963. Son of lawyers Isaac Humala and Elena Tasso. He i ...
, a former army major, ran a rebellion against the government's policies in the Andean city of
Andahuaylas
Andahuaylas (Quechua Antawaylla, ''anta'' copper, ''waylla'' meadow, "copper meadow") is a Peruvian city. It is the capital of the Andahuaylas Province in the Apurímac Region. It is known as the ''pradera de los celajes'' (Spanish for "prairie of ...
in December 2004, in which a police station was seized and some people were killed. His eldest son,
Ulises Humala, also ran for president in 2006, and currently occupies a full-time position as a professor at the
National University of Engineering
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History
The National University of Engineering was founded in 1 ...
in Peru.
Beliefs
Humala is a self-proclaimed
subversive
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: "a
patriot
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has to be...
Christ
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was and so are we", he declared in an interview.
He had previously been an active member of the
Communist Party of Peru – Red Fatherland
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and the
Revolutionary Left Movement.
Humala is an
ethnic nationalist
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, advocating for the "copper skinned"
Andean
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peoples of Peru. According to Humala: "the human species had four
races, of which one is practically separate, the white one that dominates the world, the yellow has two powers, China and Japan, and the Black, although without the same weight as the others, at least dominates its
own continent. On the other hand, the copper race does not govern anywhere."
Ethnocarcerism
In 1989, Humala founded the ''Instituto de Estudios Etnogeopolíticos'' (IEE), the
think tank
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of his
ethnocacerist ideology.
Likewise, he founded the Peruvian Nationalist Movement (MNP) - a political group that assumes the postulates of "ethnocacerism" - according to an agreement taken in Alto de la Alianza, Tacna, on October 29, 2003 (third anniversary of the uprising of his sons against the Fujimori government), setting the primary objective of gaining electoral power but without ruling out the possibility of using the armed means. Its symbol is "El sembrador" by the indigenous painter José Sabogal.
Political career
2006 Peruvian general election
Vargas Llosa published an editorial on January 15, 2006, attacking Issac Humala's beliefs. Humala has said that his movement advocates more political sovereignty for Peru's indigenous members as they suffer more than the descendants of Europeans, who he believes hold too much influence in Peru and throughout the Andes.
During the
2006 Peruvian general election
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, Humala, father of candidates Ollanta and
Ulises, said that he would free
Shining Path
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and
MRTA leaders
Abimael Guzmán
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and
Víctor Polay
Víctor Alfredo Polay Campos (born 6 April 1951) is one of the founders of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, a Peruvian Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist terrorist organization that fought in the internal conflict in Peru. He is curr ...
, since he considers that terrorist movements no longer represent a threat to Peruvian society. This came after a letter was signed by several public figures, including Ulises and fellow candidates
Javier Diez Canseco
Javier Diez Canseco Cisneros (March 24, 1948 – May 4, 2013) was a Peruvian politician and member of the Peruvian Congress representing the Socialist Party of Peru (PS), of which he was a founding member and also served as its Party President. ...
and
Alberto Moreno
Alberto Moreno Pérez (; born 5 July 1992) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for La Liga club Villarreal.
An academy graduate of local side Sevilla, he made his senior debut for the club's reserve side in 2011 befo ...
, demanding a fair trial for Polay. Most candidates rushed to condemn Isaac Humala's comments—including both Humala's candidate sons.
2020 Peruvian snap parliamentary elections
In November 2019, at the age of 88, he announced his candidacy for the Congress of the Republic for the
Free Peru
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party for the
extraordinary elections of 2020. However, a month later his candidacy was excluded from the National Jury of Elections after having omitted information about his personal property on the resume he submitted.
See also
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Pan-Americanism
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History
Following the indepen ...
References
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Isaac
Isaac; grc, Ἰσαάκ, Isaák; ar, إسحٰق/إسحاق, Isḥāq; am, ይስሐቅ is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He was the ...
Peruvian politicians of Quechua descent
Living people
Communist Party of Peru – Red Fatherland politicians
Labour lawyers
1936 births