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Felipe Quispe Huanca "El ") is a radical Bolivian political leader. He heads the Pachakutik Indigenous Movement (MIP) and is general secretary of the United Union Confederation Of Working Peasants Of Bolivia (CSUTCB). In 1984 , he was one of the leading organisers of the Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army , a failed armed insurrection against the government. Quispe was arrested for his involvement in the movement on August 19 , 1992 . Quispe has worked for the establishment of an indigenous republic — which would take the name " Collasuyu " — in the Aymara-majority regions of Bolivia. A staunch opponent of the Neoliberal Washington Consensus , Quispe has been classified as a Terrorist by the U.S. Federal Bureau Of Investigation . He is strongly against U.S.-led Coca Eradication schemes, which he sees as destroying a critical part of Aymara culture, and was a major player during the Bolivian Gas War . Quispe ran a failed campaign in the 2005 Presidential Elections , which saw the victory of indigenous Evo Morales , leader of the MAS. EXTERNAL LINKS
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