Peruvian ethnic nationalist leader who led uprising is released from prison


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  • Sunday, 21 Aug 2022

FILE PHOTO: Antauro Humala, former Army major and brother of Peru's President Ollanta Huamala, talks with his lawyer in a courtroom at Callao's Naval Base in Lima, September 18, 2012. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil

LIMA (Reuters) - The Peruvian leader of a failed 2005 ethnic nationalist uprising was released from prison on Saturday after serving a sentence for leading the rebellion, roiling Peru with the possibility he might re-emerge as an influential political leader.

Antauro Humala, 59, the brother of former President Ollanta Humala, is the leader of the so-called Ethnocacerist movement, which advocates for marginalized indigenous Peruvians to seize power.

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