1. Antauro Igor Humala Tasso was born on 29 June 1963 and is a Peruvian ethnocacerist, a former army major, and nationalist leader.
20 Facts About Antauro Humala
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Antauro Humala has been the Leader of the political party ANTAURO since its creation in 2023.
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Antauro Igor Humala Tasso was born in Lima, on 29 June 1963.
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Antauro Humala is the brother of former president Ollanta Humala and the leader of the ethnocacerist movement Frente Patriotico Peruano.
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Antauro Humala studied at the Franco-Peruvian College of the city of Lima and at the National College of Sciences and Arts of Cuzco.
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Antauro Humala entered the National Agrarian University La Molina in the career of Agricultural Engineering.
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Antauro Humala graduated from the 1985 promotion "Heroes de Concepcion".
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Antauro Humala was head of the patrol in the anti-submersion fight in the 1980s.
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Antauro Humala participated as a captain, taking part in the war operations in 1995 during the Cenepa War.
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Antauro Humala proved to be a capable soldier, and in 1997 he was promoted to Major of the Peruvian Army.
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Antauro Humala attained international prominence on 1 January 2005 by occupying a rural police station in Andahuaylas, Apurimac.
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In May 2001, after the Locumba Uprising, Antauro Humala published his first book Ejercito Peruano: Milenarismo, Nacionalismo y Etnocacerismo in which he lays out Etnocacerismo, primarily its anticolonial military doctrine and critical Indigenist analysis of Peruvian history and society.
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Antauro Humala was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in the April 2006 elections running under the Go on Country - Social Integration Party.
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In 2006, Antauro Humala published his book Etnonacionalismo: Izquierda y Globalidad in which he laid out the anticolonial and Neo-Incan ideology of his Etnocacerist movement.
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In September 2009 Antauro Humala was sentenced to 25 years in prison but, it was reduced to between 17 and 19 years in prison.
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On 14 May 2011, Antauro Humala filed a lawsuit against journalist Jaime Bayly claiming Bayly was "disseminating inaccurate versions" of the events in 2005.
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On 1 August 2012, his father Isaac Humala announced the publication of another book that Antauro had completed while imprisoned.
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In February 2015, a report from the Directorate of Criminalistics of the National Police of Peru on the bodies of the four law enforcement officers who died in this coup, indicates that the bullets that caused their death came from above and behind, while Antauro Humala's group was ahead of them.
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In June 2019, Antauro Humala announced that the foundation of Patriotic Front is official.
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Antauro Humala has been described as having ultranationalist and fascist leanings himself with analyst Carlos Melendez of Diego Portales University stating that Antauro Humala's views adopt "fascistic features and with promises of a heavy hand, militaristic and a refoundational discourse with extreme radicalism".