At his last press conference, with a portrait of Velasco on the table, Antauro Humala He distanced himself from Movadef, the other party banned from the elections. He said that he was neither a leftist nor a communist, but rather a redneck, and that what divided the country was ethnicities and not social classes. He also considered himself an indigenous person, even though he clearly is not. As Marco ‘El Paiche’ Vizcarra noted in an interview with this newspaper, Humala Tasso studied at the Colegio Franco Peruano and has an Italian surname. His father is a provincial intellectual and a business lawyer. The Humalas had land in the mountains and belong to the Ayacucho bourgeoisie. As ‘El Paiche’ concluded, “Antaurus “It’s caviar.”
Following the progressive narrative, the ethnocacerista seems to be abusing the ethno, that is, self-determination, by perceiving himself as “indigenous” without being so. North American analysts agree that taking these identity policies to the extreme meant the recent defeat of the Democrats. Kamala Harris herself, of Indian and African American descent, focused her campaign on the cultural approach to gender and race. But the reality, as demonstrated by the pro-Trump Latino and black vote, is more complex. And it will be even more so as long as miscegenation continues to define the American melting pot. For this reason, the Democrats lost the working class, as socialist Bernie Sanders explains.
In Peru, ethnic groups are not watertight compartments either. Racism is historical and that is what lives on Antaurusbut it works from the waist up. From the waist down there is miscegenation. Therefore, social classes overlap with ‘races’. Velasco knew this, and he changed Leguía’s Indian Day to Peasant’s Day; and the communists of Movadef, who summoned senderistas of all colors. But Antaurus he became woke.
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