Felipe Quispe

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  In Bolivia, this fascistic trend is politically represented by the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), led by Evo Morales and Felipe Quispe (aka "el Mallku," the Condor), both Aymaras.Morales represents coca producers and was a runner-up in the country's latest presidential election.Quispe, a convicted terrorist in the 1980s, is now a federal deputy from La Paz department and head of the Pachacuti Indigenous Movement and the Sole Sindical Confederation of Campesino Workers of Bolivia (CSUTCB).
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  But the closer one gets to the Bolivian border around Lake Tititcaca, the more indications there are that anti-white racism and anti-democratic lawlessness in the name of "Aymara rights" - including the lynching of the elected mayor in the border town of Ilave - are being promoted by Morales, Quispe and their ilk.
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  Quispe, the Ecuadoran CONAIE and Pachakuti groups, as well as MPN, all share the ultimate goal of reconstituting the pre-Colombian Inca Empire, Tihuantisuyo, from Ecuador to Northern Chile, including all of Bolivia and Peru and parts of Argentina.When Quispe declares that the main objective of his Movimiento Indígena Pachacuti is to establish a "Republic of Qollasuyo" - the name of the easternmost of the Inca Empire's four provinces - he may as well join the Humalas' dream of re-establishing the whole empire.Indeed, as Ollanta himself has stated, "We contemplate a Tahuantinsuyo Motherland, which will comprise Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador, the north of Chile and the Argentine northwest."[ii][2]
  
  How that would function and how it would be accomplished is also clear, again according to Quispe: The "Republic of Qollasuyo" would be one in which "there will be neither poor nor rich, in which one would use barter and take care of the environment...To reach this change much blood and sacrifice is required, but we will not reach it through Parliament.Talking in Parliament we will solve nothing or even strengthen the system."[iii][3] Quispe's plan would also solve the "problem" that many present inhabitants of that area are what Isaac Humala calls "settlers" of an alien race - i.e., people of European origin.Antauro Humala's solution, not different from Quispe's, is their removal, with the former advocating mass executions of the "white" ruling elites of Peru, for "treason" to his ideals.
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  Antauro declares himself "Friend of the Ecuadoran indigenous of CONAIE, but also of Evo Morales and Felipe Quispe in Bolivia…I consider myself brother of the ideas of Hugo Chávez…[and] admirer of the "nationalist struggle of the Cuban Revolution."[v][5]
  
  The admiration is mutual.Castro invites Indian leaders like Morales and Iza to his various conferences criticizing "neoliberalism" and Washington; Chavez does the same and, while in Bolivia, openly stated his support for Morales and Quispe's territorial claims on Chile.All of these Indian groups, when not being invited to Caracas for various "anti-imperialist" and "Bolivarian" shows, all expenses paid, meet in Havana (all expenses paid as well) for such "summits" as the 2004 3rd Hemispheric Encounter of Struggle against the Free Trade Area of the Americas proposal (Ãrea de Libre Comercio de las Américas (ALCA), attended by Morales, Iza, Quispe, etc.
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  CONAIE and Pacahakuti in Ecuador, like MAS and Quispe in Bolivia, got away with what amounted to coups against democratically elected presidents.
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  Or the tolerance of Indio-fascists challenge to drug control policies ? Or the United States' inaction, if not silence, when the threat of Bolivia's splitting into two because of the activities of Morales and Quispe is increasingly real?

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  His comments received a cool response from Felipe Quispe, a campesino leader from the La Paz department who heads of the Pachakuti Indigenous Movement (MIP).
  
  "The official parties are ignorant of our culture and politics.Confrontation is inevitable; no one is going to be submissive," said Quispe, who is known as "Mallku," the Aymara word for condor.

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  The Narco News Team opens its full coverage from the first-ever hemispheric Drug Legalization Summit in Merida, Yucatan, with our first nine reports, including a communique authored by Bolivian Congressman Felipe Quispe - El Mallku of America - special to Narco News, a report by Adam Saytanides on Mexican Congressman Gregorio Urias' keynote speech calling for a united Pan-American battle to end drug prohibition. ..You can read their accounts of the opening session of the J-School, too:

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  At Radio Saint Gabriel, the Aymara management-led by Felipe Quispe, director of the rural producers' organization CSUTCB-carried out a hunger strike.

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  Felipe Quispe, the former head of the Union Confederation of Rural Workers of Bolivia who has often challenged Morales from the left, said: "The government is committing an error because it is offering to discuss the agricultural reform plan with the large landowners who have historically exploited the peasants."

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  Calling Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada's plan a "personal business deal," campesino leader and congressman Felipe Quispe began a hunger strike in early September; which gave inspiration to a thousand more hunger strikers.

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  Although the Water War was successful in its immediate goal, the authors argue that the movements failed to oust President Hugo Banzer (the former dictator who was elected president in 1997) due to the failure of an alliance between Felipe Quispe, head of the CSUTCM; Evo Morales, cocalero union leader and founder of the MAS (Movement Towards Socialism) party; and the coalition led by Oscar Olivera that coordinated the Water War.
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  So while MAS's strong showing in the 2002 elections confirmed that the social movements had effected a decisive shift in the balance of forces, the rivalry between Quispe and Morales, as well as their efforts to curb the radicalism of the movements thereafter, "would plague the social movements until October 2003."

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  The executive secretary of the Bolivian Confederation of Rural Workers` Unions (CSUTCB), Felipe Quispe, an indigenous leader from the western region, was critical of the government`s plan because, he said, it aims at reaching an accommodation with "owners of vast estates and landholders who have historically exploited rural workers."
  
  For the time being, Quispe has not called for seizures of private lands, in contrast to the small Landless Movement (MST), which is divided into a wing that supports the government, and one that is in radical opposition.

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  The executive secretary of the Bolivian Confederation of Rural Workers' Unions (CSUTCB), Felipe Quispe, an indigenous leader from the western region, was critical of the government's plan because, he said, it aims at reaching an accommodation with "owners of vast estates and landholders who have historically exploited rural workers."
  
  For the time being, Quispe has not called for seizures of private lands, in contrast to the small Landless Movement (MST), which is divided into a wing that supports the government, and one that is in radical opposition. (END/2006)
  
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  As for the famous Aymaran leader Felipe Quispe, who is one of Morales's main rivals, "sometimes we get along, sometimes we don't," says Morales.What are the biggest challenges MAS faces?"Political meddling from the United States."When I ask him about the difference between his call for 50 percent royalties and the increasingly popular demand for nationalization, he offers a contorted attempt to reconcile the two.
  
  "If we renegotiate all of these illegal contracts, and insure local community consultation on the new contracts, that is essentially nationalization."A week later, when the airports have not yet been shut down, Morales and I end up on the same flight to La Paz.He can't remember our recent hourlong interview.I remind him of all the details; he looks at me with earnest, tired eyes but still can't remember.
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  One of the most important is the Aymaran nationalist and former guerrilla Felipe Quispe (aka "El Mallku," the Condor), who now heads a large peasant union called the CSUTCB.I meet Quispe in the CSUTCB's chilly and barren La Paz offices in a brick building with a round facade.
  
  He wears a dusty black fedora and a heavy leather jacket.His face is set in a permanent, take-no-crap frown.He begins the interview by offering a small pile of coca leaves and sweet herbs.Throughout the discussion he methodically strips the stems from the small leaves.Quispe's worldview is nothing if not radical.Forget the presidency, the Parliament, the squabbles over gas royalties and tax rates.He sees a future indigenous nation run by a council of elders and encompassing Bolivia along with parts of Peru, Argentina and Chile.
  
  Quispe tried his hand at liberal democracy; he was a congressman from the indigenous party, MIP, but walked out, dismissing Parliament as a decadent talking shop."My mother was a slave," says Quispe with a blunt stare.
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  Quispe insists his vision of an Aymaran nation is not atavistic or fanciful.
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  As for Evo Morales's more mundane quest to be president, Quispe is dismissive.

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