Issac Humala He is the father of the former president of Peru Ollanta Humala and the former antauro humala. In his youth he rubbed elbows with the winner of the Nobel Prize of Literature 2010, Mario Vargas Llosa, because they were trained in the same House of Studiesthe National University of San Marcos.
The Humala patriarch has been the most emphatic in criticizing his famous sons, whom he formed according to his way of thinking and seeing the world. What else is known about Issac Humala? Find out below.
Who is Isaac Humala?
Issac Humala He is a lawyer by training from the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos. Ayacucho by birth, he is the father of Ulises, Ollanta, Pachacútec, Antauro, Katia, Cusi Coyllur, Imasúmac, Violeta, Dunia and Amaro.
Isaac comes from a family of landowners from Ayacucho, precisely a revolt led by indigenous workers, who raised their voices in protest against the authoritarianism of Isaac’s grandfather. It was the main cause for them to leave their native Oyolo to go live in Coracora.
Isaac Humala with his family. Photo: composition LR/El País/Virgilio Grajeda
Leaving aside his childhood, Issac Humala settles in the capital of Lima to continue his studies. He entered the San Marcos University to study law. There, coinciding with his Marxist stubbornness, he secretly enrolled in the Communist Party. In this space he dedicated his time to reading philosophy, Greek history and Marxist literature.
At the gates of his last years of studies, Isaac Humala he was responsible for a communist faction where he was the ideological instructor of the entrants. This faction would receive the name, at Isaac’s own proposal, of “Cahuide cell”. Here he would meet a young Mario Vargas Llosa, the sociologist Héctor Béjar and the late journalist Félix Arias Schreiber.
In this way, his passage through this group of studies would be printed on the pages of the autobiographical book “El pez en el agua” by Vargas Llosa. “Those responsible, such as the spirited Issac Humalain whose speeches he infallibly spoke of the Helots of Greece and the rebellion of Spartacus (…)”, wrote the man of letters.
Later, Isaac would be a member of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) of Luis de la Puente Uceda, which began the armed struggle, however, he withdrew because he considered that the Army should not be fought, but that it should be infiltrated. His way of thinking came mainly from his admiration for Andrés Avelino Cáceres. It was there that the idea arose of having his eldest son enter the Army Officers School.
Isaac Humala had a brief participation in the MIR of Luis De la Puente Uceda. Photo: composition LR/La Mula/Wikiwand
To do this, he made the two most suitable enter the Army to start a military career whose culmination should be the presidency of the Republic. “I put Ollanta and Antauro in the barracks because that is the way to the Government Palace,” he would declare some time later.
Isaac Humala and his failed application to the Congress of the Republic
In 2019, Issac Humala presented his candidacy to the Congress of the Republic of the hand of the political party Peru Libre. However, his nomination was ruled out by the National Elections Jury (JNE), despite the fact that they filed an appeal.
Likewise, with resolution 498-2019, the Central Lima Special Electoral Jury (JEE) ratified the decision to exclude the father of former President Ollanta Humala for not declaring a vehicle with an A5R500 license plate on his resume.
About this, the representative of Peru Libre, Ana María Córdova Capucho, described that the omission would be an “innocent forgetfulness”, which does not cause any harm. The highest electoral body rejected this position and stated as follows.
“The omission of data in the DJHV causes not only an immediate damage against the State for violating the principle of presumption of veracity, but also, in the medium or long term, it violates the right of the voter that the votes translate an authentic expression of his will, contained in article 176 of the Constitution, since it is not possible to speak of an authentic expression of will, when the vote of the citizen has been motivated by data from a candidate that does not conform to the truth, because they are omitted”, they pointed out
The nomination to the Congress of the Republic by Isaac Humala was annulled by the corresponding entities. Photo: composition LR/Javier Quispe Arcasi/National Election Jury
Isaac Humala and his sons, Ollanta and Antauro Humala
Ollanta and Antauro Humala, commander, and retired major, respectively. The brothers began a revolt in October 2000, the Locumba uprising, against the dying government of Fujimori and Montesinos. After their delivery to the democratic regime of Valentín Paniagua and being amnestied in December of that year, they continued careers in parallel.
On the one hand, Ollanta with the militia and from radical politics, Antauro. The first was very close to the presidency in 2006, the second went to jail a year earlier, after the call Andahuaylazo.
After 5 years, in 2011, Issac Humala he would attend the presidential investiture of Ollanta. In that year she beat the favorite, Keiko Fujimori. This was taken as a representation of the triumphant democratic values in Ollanta, antagonists of his candidacy years ago.
Ollanta Humala was elected President of the Republic, Antauro Humala was imprisoned by the Andahuaylazo. Photo: composition LR/Andina/La Razón
What did Isaac Humala say when his son Ollanta went to jail?
After the former president of Peru, Ollanta Humala was sentenced to 18 months in pretrial detention, Issac Humala He sent a strong message to his son. “My son is as treacherous as the others, he has not betrayed me, but the country. Our family is not dedicated to money, we have the principle that money is useful, but it is not the objective, but the well-being of our country and the nation, ”he specified for Radio Latina.
Isaac Humala proposes Antauro Humala as president
After the mandate of Ollanta Humala, Isaac Humala assured that his son Antauro, who was in jail, was the ideal candidate to assume the presidency of Peru. “According to the way things are, Antauro is the only one who can be President. In Peru there is only one leader. The real leader is the one who calls to take a barracks, to take the Government Palace. What I’m saying is that the only one who has summoning power is him (Antauro). He is in prison, but his movement is active, ”he said in an interview with Exitosa.
Updated by: Daniela Odar
