Felipe Quispe

Bolivian historian and politician

Felipe Quispe Huanca "Mallku" (Quechua language: "condor";[1] 22 August 1942 – 19 January 2021) was a Bolivian historian and political leader. He was the leader of the Pachakuti Indigenous Movement (MIP) and was general secretary of the United Union Confederation of Working Peasants of Bolivia (CSUTCB).[2] He unsuccessfully ran for President of Bolivia in 2005.

Felipe Quispe Huanca in 2019.

Quispe died on 19 January 2021 in El Alto, Bolivia from cardiac arrest at the age of 78.[3]

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  1. Noam Chomsky, Lois Meyer, and Benjamin Maldonado Alvarado (2010). New World of Indigenous Resistance. City Light Publishers. p. 291. ISBN 978-0-87286-533-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Teo Ballve and Vijay Prashad. Dispatches from Latin America. LeftWord Books. p. 158. ISBN 81-87496-58-4.
  3. "Fallece Felipe Quispe, «El Mallku»". www.paginasiete.bo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-01-20.