Ollanta Humala

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Ollanta Humala

Ollanta Moisés Humala Tasso (born June 27, 1962 in Lima ) is a Peruvian politician and former lieutenant colonel in the Peruvian army . From 2011 to 2016 he was President of Peru .

Life

In October 2000, he led a mutiny of around 50 to 60 soldiers against the dictatorial ruling then President Alberto Fujimori , in which his brother Antauro Humala also took part. They took a general and four miners hostage. Ollanta Humala was first arrested and released from the army, but rehabilitated after the fall of Fujimori and promoted to the Peruvian military attaché in Paris and later in Seoul . In December 2004 he was replaced from this post.

Ollanta Humala's father Isaac Humala is considered to be the founder of the movement of Etnocacerism ( Movimiento Etnocacerista ). Ollanta also originates from this movement, but sometimes distances himself from its goals. In his political direction, Humala makes positive references to the left and center-left governments in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela (interviews on the 2006 election campaign).

In October 2005, Ollanta Humala was elected chairman of the Partido Nacionalista Peruano (PNP, Nationalist Party of Peru). In the presidential election on April 9, 2006 , he ran for Unión por el Perú . His main election program items included the review of the contracts of transnational mining companies and the revision of privatizations. Humala won the first ballot with 30.6 percent of the vote. In the runoff election on June 4, Humala lost 47.3 percent of the vote to former Social Democratic President Alan García .

In the 2011 elections in Peru he ran again as a presidential candidate. With him Marisol Espinoza ( Unión por el Perú ) went into the race as a candidate for the vice presidency. He named as his goals a fairer distribution of income from the country's natural resources (currently high poverty despite high incomes from mining) and maintaining the mostly high economic growth in recent years. Among other things, the minimum wage should be increased and profits from mining should be taxed. He referred to the former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as a role model . On the other hand, he publicly distanced himself from Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez , whose support he had openly used during the 2006 election campaign. In the polls, he was initially given no chance of winning. In April 2011 he surprisingly received the most votes in the first round of the presidential election with 31.1 percent, but had to face the right-wing conservative candidate Keiko Fujimori in a runoff election scheduled for June 6 , which he narrowly won. After the election victory, he announced a market-oriented economy while strengthening the domestic economy and expanding the social system.

On July 28, 2011, he took over the presidency. In the first few months, Humala tried primarily to gain trust from entrepreneurs who had previously been close to his opponent Keiko Fujimori. Major topics of his first year in government were the Conga mining project in the Peruvian region of Cajamarca , the increase in the minimum wage and the start of the announced social programs.

On July 28, 2016, Humala was replaced as President by Pedro Pablo Kuczynski .

In connection with the international corruption scandal surrounding the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht , Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia are accused of having carried out money laundering and conspiracy. According to the group, the politician's election campaign was illegally supported by Odebrecht with 2.63 million in 2011. On July 14, 2017, Humala surrendered and put his wife in custody after a court ordered his detention. Prosecutors were concerned that the couple might escape abroad before prosecution. They can be set for up to 18 months. On April 27, 2018, on the occasion of the completion of half the term of detention, the public prosecutor ordered her release for the duration of the trial.

Web links

Commons : Ollanta Humala  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rolf Schröder: Rebellion of the Reservists Latin America News, issue number 368, February 2005
  2. ^ Nationalism and Populism Propel Front-Runner in Peru , NYTimes, April 2, 2006
  3. ↑ a b "The Dreaded Outsider" , article in Telepolis of April 8, 2006
  4. ^ The Independent: Humala set for narrow victory over Fujimori , June 7, 2011
  5. ↑ Tagesschau: Ex-officer Humala leads in runoff election ( memento from June 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), June 6, 2011
  6. ↑ Humala distances himself from Chavez model , accessed June 7, 2011
  7. ↑ : Ollanta Humala, entre Chávez y Lula ( Memento of April 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 7, 2011
  8. ↑ a b Ollanta Humala just wins taz.de on June 6, 2011
  9. ↑ Peruvians vote extremely n.tv.de from April 11, 2011
  10. ↑ Telepolis: Humala wins Peru's presidency on the second attempt , June 7, 2011
  11. ↑ Humala sworn in as President
  12. ↑ Peru's President in Guarantee Fever infoamazonas.de of April 25, 2012
  13. ↑ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-peru-corruption-humala/perus-ex-presidents-humala-and-fujimori-old-foes-share-prison-idUSKBN1A0005
  14. ↑ Corruption allegations against Humala: Peru's ex-president poses at tagesschau.de, July 14, 2017 (accessed on July 14, 2017).
  15. ↑ Peru's ex-president Humala is released from custody , at orf.at, April 27, 2018 (accessed April 30, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Humala, Ollanta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Humala Tasso, Ollanta Moisés (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Lima