The Túpac Katari Guerrilla Army ''(Ejército Guerrillero Túpac Katari)'' was a guerrilla movement in

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. Albeit of

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inspiration, the movement had a multiracial membership. The organization descended directly from the original revolutionaries trained by

Che Guevara Ernesto Che Guevara (; 14 June 1928The date of birth recorded on /upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Ernesto_Guevara_Acta_de_Nacimiento.jpg his birth certificatewas 14 June 1928, although one tertiary source, (Julia Constenla, quoted ...

in the 1960s. Their objective was to fight for social equality in Bolivia and amongst its indigenous population. They carried out their first attack on July 5, 1991, destroying an electric power pylon in

El Alto El Alto (Spanish for "The Heights") is the second-largest city in Bolivia, located adjacent to La Paz in Pedro Domingo Murillo Province on the Altiplano highlands. El Alto is today one of Bolivia's fastest-growing urban centers, with an estim ...

, a major city which adjoins

La Paz La Paz (), officially known as Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Spanish pronunciation: ), is the seat of government of the Bolivia, Plurinational State of Bolivia. With an estimated 816,044 residents as of 2020, La Paz is the List of Bolivian cities ...

, Bolivia's administrative capital. Most of the group's attacks have been similarly small-scale and they had confined their activities largely to Bolivia. The group suffered a major setback in a crackdown in 1992, when much of its leadership was neutralized through incarceration. The group was named after

Túpac Katari Túpac Katari or Catari (also Túpaj Katari) (c. 1750 – November 13, 1781), born Julián Apasa Nina, was the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous Aymara people, Aymara leader of a major insurrection in colonial-era Upper Peru (now Boli ...

, a colonial-era indigenous revolutionary. One of their former members,

Álvaro García Linera Álvaro Marcelo García Linera (; born 19 October 1962) is a Bolivian politician, sociologist, Theoretician (Marxism), marxist theoretician, and former Guerrilla warfare, guerilla who served as the 38th Vice President of Bolivia, vice preside ...

, has served as the vice-president of Bolivia.

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on the group from the U.S. Navy Postgraduate School.
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Bolivian activist website that has documents related to the Túpac Katari Defunct communist militant groups Guerrilla movements in Latin America 1991 in Bolivia Indigenous organisations in Bolivia Indigenous rights organizations Katarism Paramilitary organisations based in Bolivia {{Bolivia-org-stub

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