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Felipe Quispe Huanca "El Mallku" (Aymara language: "prince") is a Bolivian political leader. He heads the Pachakuti Indigenous Movement (MIP) and is general secretary of the United Union Confederation of Working Peasants of Bolivia (CSUTCB). In 1984, he was one of the leading organisers of the Tupac 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 an indigenous republic — which would take the name "Collasuyu" — in the Aymara-majority regions of Bolivia. Mallku is a title roughly translating as prince or leader in the Aymara language of South America. ...
Aymara is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara of the Andes. ...
The term prince, from the Latin root princeps, is used for a member of the highest ranks of the aristocracy or the nobility. ...
The Indigenous Pachakuti Movement (Movimiento IndÃgena Pachakuti) is a political party in Bolivia. ...
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The Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army is an indigenous guerilla movement in Bolivia. ...
is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ...
Collasuyu was the southwestern provincial region of the Tahuantinsuyu, or Inca Empire. ...
The Aymara are a native ethnic group in the Andes region of South America; about 2. ...
A staunch opponent of the neoliberal Washington consensus, he is strongly against U.S.-led coca eradication schemes, which he sees as destroying a critical part of Aymara culture, and was a major player during both the Bolivian Gas War. The term neoliberalism is used to describe a political-economic philosophy that had major implications for government policies beginning in the 1970s – and increasingly prominent since 1980 – that de-emphasizes or rejects positive government intervention in the economy, focusing instead on achieving progress and even social justice by encouraging free...
The Washington Consensus is a phrase initially coined in 1987-88 by John Williamson to describe a relatively specific set of ten economic policy prescriptions that he considered to constitute a standard reform package promoted for crisis-wracked countries by Washington-based institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, World...
Coca eradication is a controversial strategy strongly promoted by the United States government as part of its War on Drugs to eliminate the cultivation of coca, a plant whose leaves are not only traditionally used by indigenous cultures but also, in modern society, in the manufacture of cocaine. ...
The Bolivian Gas War was a social conflict in Bolivia centering around the exploitation of the countrys vast natural gas reserves. ...
Quispe ran a failed campaign in the 2005 presidential elections, which saw the victory of indigenous Evo Morales, leader of the MAS. The 2005 Bolivian presidential election was held on December 18, 2005. ...
Juan Evo Morales Ayma (born October 26, 1959 in Orinoca, Oruro), popularly known as Evo (pronounced ), is the President of Bolivia, and has been declared the countrys first fully indigenous head of state since the Spanish Conquest in 470 years. ...
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