Felipe Quispe | |
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| Member of theChamber of Deputies fromLa Paz | |
| In office 6 August 2002 – 1 June 2004 | |
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| Born | Felipe Quispe Huanca (1942-08-22)22 August 1942 |
| Died | 19 January 2021(2021-01-19) (aged 78) El Alto, La Paz, Bolivia |
| Political party | Jallalla La Paz(2021) Pachakuti Indigenous Movement(2002–2005) |
| Education | Higher University of San Andrés |
Felipe Quispe Huanca "Mallku" (Quechua language: "condor"[1]), (22 August 1942 – 19 January 2021) was a Bolivian historian and political leader. He headed thePachakuti Indigenous Movement (MIP) and was general secretary of the United Union Confederation of Working Peasants of Bolivia (CSUTCB).[2]
Quispe founded theTupak Katari Indian Movement in 1979 and the Tupak Katari Guerrilla Army in 1990. His honorific name, Mallku, refers to the spirit of the mountains that surround and protect the People, and therefore is the source of life. "Mallku" means "peak" both in geography and in hierarchy.[3]
In 1984, he was one of the leading organisers of theTupac Katari Guerrilla Army, a failed armed insurrection against the government. Quispe was arrested for his involvement in the movement on August 19, 1992. Quispe has worked for the establishment of a Tawantinsuyu republic — which would take the name "Collasuyu" — in theAymara-majority regions of Bolivia.
Quispe was a staunch opponent of theneoliberalWashington consensus, and was also strongly against U.S.-led schemes towardcoca eradication, which he sees as destroying a critical part of Aymara culture. He was involved heavily in theBolivian Gas War.
Quispe ran failed campaigns in the2002 and2005 presidential elections, which saw the victory of indigenousEvo Morales, leader of MAS (Movimiento al socialismo). Quispe was a vocal critic of Morales' government, characterising it as representing "neoliberalism with an Indian face".[4]
Quispe died on 19 January 2021 in El Alto fromcardiac arrest.[5]
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| Preceded by Political party established | Pachakuti Indigenous Movement nominee for President of Bolivia 2002,2005 | Succeeded by Party dissolved |
| Preceded by Political party established | Jallalla La Paz nominee forGovernor of La Paz Died 2021 | Succeeded by Santos Quispe |
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