The muleteer and trader who claimed descent from Inca royals, led an Andean revolt against Spanish colonial rule and was gruesomely executed on May 18, 1781, has been appropriated as a symbol by guerrillas and governments.This year, the bicentennial of Peru’s 1821 independence from Spain, Túpac Amaru and wife Micaela Bastidas are increasingly celebrated as having laid the groundwork for that struggle.
Tania Pariona Tarqui, a Quechua activist and former congresswoman, said there has been a ’’historical rescue,” still incomplete, of Indigenous figures such as Bastidas, a key rebel strategist and logistician. Peru’s Indigenous and mixed race citizens constitute a majority of the population, though lighter-skinned elites have traditionally led the nation. Pariona Tarqui said Pedro Castillo, a rural teacher who is one of two candidates in a presidential vote on June 6, pledged to help Amazon communities lacking land titles, but she cautioned that so far no government has been effective on the issue.
Túpac Amaru was elevated as a national symbol during the 1968-75 ”revolutionary government″ of Peruvian Gen. Juan Velasco Alvarado. The rebel Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement operated in Peru in the 1980s and 1990s, the same time as the larger Shining Path insurgency. A guerrilla group in Uruguay, the Tupamaros, found the same inspiration.
When minorities fight back, it's usually for their own survival. In the 'new normal', we're all minorities.
It's certainly a reminder of the power structure and what happens if you speak against it. Lesson, 'stay in your dehumanized place'..., to be acceptable.
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