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The Ethnocacerist movement (Spanish: Movimiento etnocacerista, also sometimes referred to as the Movimiento Nacionalista Peruano or "Peruvian Nationalist Movement") is a Peruvian ethnic nationalist movement seeking the establishment of a proletarian dictatorship led by the country's indigenous communities and their descendants. It combines far-left economic views with far-right views on racial, social, and military issues.
The name etnocacerista is composed of two parts: the first evokes Peru's ethnic identity (specifically, its origins with the Quechua, a Native Peruvian 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. Due to the latter, the movement also espouses severe anti-Chile sentiments.
Most of its members are armed forces veterans of Peru's internal wars or the border disputes with Ecuador in the 1980s and 1990s.
See also
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)