Confederación Campesina del Perú
The Confederación Campesina del Perú (CCP) is an association of Peruvian farmers' organizations based in Lima , which was founded in 1947. It played a decisive role in the struggles of the indigenous peoples in the Andes of Peru to return their lands in the 20th century.
The CCP is a member of the international associations Coordinadora Andina de Organizaciones Indígenas , Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Organizaciones del Campo (CLOC) and Vía Campesina . The current leaders are Jorge Prado Sumari , Roberto López Cruz , Marcelina Vargas Quispe and Melchor Lima Hancco .
The CCP was founded on April 11, 1947 by representatives of indigenous village communities ( ayllus ), small farmers , farm workers and day laborers . Quechua farmers in the Andean region made up a large part of the membership . The first general secretary was Juan Hipólito Pévez Oliveros , a farm worker from Ica . Other important leaders were Ernesto Quispe Ledesma , later a lawyer in the province of La Convención ( Departamento Cusco ), and the Trotskyist activist Hugo Blanco Galdós .
The CCP was involved in land occupations in the province of La Convención (Cusco), in the departments of Pasco and Junín in the 1960s and in the provinces of Andahuaylas and Chincheros in 1974. The CCP supported the expropriation of the haciendas under the military government of Juan Velasco Alvarado from 1969, but criticized the establishment of state-controlled large farms such as the SAIS (Sociedades Agrícolas de Interés Social), in which indigenous village communities were combined with agricultural workers' cooperatives on expropriated hacienda land , and fought for the transfer of the haciendas back to the village communities.
In 1987, farmers organized in the CCP in Puno department achieved the return of 2 million hectares of land.
In addition to economic rights, the CCP also advocates the cultural indigenous rights of its members, including strengthening the Quechua language, and takes part in national and international indigenous conferences. In the legislative period from 2006 to 2011, two CCP activists were in the Peruvian Parliament, both Quechua women: Hilaria Supa Huamán from the Cusco region (former head of the regional farmers' association of Cusco) and Juana Huancahuari from Ayacucho (chairman of the regional agricultural organization of Ayacucho and Member of the National Executive Committee of the CCP until 2005). Since 2001 ecological goals have also been on the political agenda of the CCP.
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- ↑ Dante Salazar Tarazona: Como La Democracia, Que Es Para Todos, En America Latina Es Para Pocos. LibrosEnRed, 2007. p. 294.
- ↑ Declaración de los pueblos quechuas de Sudamerica, August 5, 2005 ( Memento of the original of February 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Pronunciamento de las mujeres indígenas del Perú. Chirapaq, Lima, June 5, 2009.
- ^ Raul E. Chacón: El nacimiento del ecologismo popular en el Perú, o la lucha sin fin de las comunidades de Vicco y San Mateo. Ecología política 24 (2003), pp. 113–128: p. 119 .
