Hilaria Supa

Hilaria Supa Huamán ( * 1957 in Wayllaqocha, Anta, department of Cusco ), Quechua peasant woman is a human rights activist, suffragist and Peruvian politician.

Life

Hilaria Supa was raised by her mother's parents, Helena Huamán living as agricultural laborers on a hacienda of a landowner. Since her childhood she witnessed how the landlords abused her grandfather, and raped the women. Her grandfather, who fought for the rights of landless peasants was murdered in 1965. Hilaria was sent then to relatives in Arequipa. When she returned years later to the hacienda, she learned that her grandmother had died in the meantime.

Even at a young age, she was the first mother - when she became 22 years, died in her partner, with whom she had two daughters and a son. They fed her family from then on as a maid in Cusco, Arequipa and Lima.

In the late 1960s she became politically active for the first time, together with other women, she organized food expenditures for street children. She was subsequently Chairman of the Committee Micaela Bastidas in Anta ( department of Cusco ), and participated in the battles for the return of indigenous lands, which eventually resulted in the successful land reform under Juan Velasco Alvarado.

In 1991, she was organizing secretary of the newly established Association of Women of Anta ( Federación de Mujeres de Anta FEMCA ), where she arranged for education, the recognition of traditional medicine, as well as the consciousness of the pesticide problem in agriculture.

Hilaria Supa has participated in many international women's conferences where she also aware of their native Quechua language used in speeches and their increased use demanded. She was also Director of the Regional Farmers' Association of Cusco within the National Association Confederación Campesina del Perú.

She firmly opposes programs that included the sterilization of women. The former health minister under Alberto Fujimori, Alejandro Aguinaga, it criticizes the implementation of a program that had the forcible sterilization of 363,000 Peruvian women (mostly indigenous descent ) result. Also one of her daughters was forcibly sterilized.

In 2006 she was elected as a candidate of Unión por el Perú in the Peruvian Congress, where she served as first deputy in the history of Peru on July 25, their oath in an indigenous language, Quechua took off, followed by its parliamentary colleague María Sumire, for which both were heavily criticized by the Fujimori supporter of Martha Hildebrandt and some other MPs.

In August 2010, Hilaria was elected Chairman of the Education Commission of the Peruvian Parliament. While deputies of the APRA and the Fujimori parties criticized this, there was support from the Peruvian education experts.

In April 2011, Hilaria was elected as a candidate of the Gana Perú alliance choice in the Andean Parliament.

Works

• Awayu - Quechua woman Hilaria Supa Huamán talks about her life. Publishing Vision 21 167 pages, approx 18 Fig, Paperback. ISBN 3-00-016609-2 Original: Hilo De Mi Vida - El Testimonio De Hilaria Supa Huamán, Una Campesina Quechua. Willkamayu Editores