Ollanta Humala
Ollanta Moisés Humala Tasso (* 27 June 1962 ) is a Peruvian politician, former lieutenant colonel in the Peruvian army and since July 28, 2011 President of Peru.
Life
In October 2000, he led a mutiny of about 50 to 60 soldiers against the dictatorial ruling then-President Alberto Fujimori, which was also his brother Antauro Humala took part. They took a general and four mine workers hostage. Ollanta Humala was initially arrested and dismissed from the army, but rehabilitated after the fall of Fujimori and the Peruvian military attaché in Paris and later promoted in Seoul. In December 2004, he was relieved from this post.
Ollanta Humala's father Isaac Humala is considered the founder of the movement of Etnocacerismus ( Movimiento Etnocacerista ). Also Ollanta flows from this movement, but distances itself part of their objectives. In his political direction Humala relates positively 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 ( Nationalist Party of Peru PNP ) was elected chairman of the Partido Nacionalista Peruano selected. In the presidential elections on 9 April 2006, he went to Unión por el Perú. His main campaign platform points included the review of contracts of transnational mining companies and the revision of privatization. Humala won the first round with 30.6 percent of the vote. In the runoff election on June 4, Humala was defeated with 47.3 percent of the vote against the Social Democratic former President Alan García.
In the elections in Peru in 2011, he joined again as a presidential candidate. Went with him Marisol Espinoza ( Unión por el Perú ) as a candidate for the vice-presidency in the race. When his goals he called a more equitable distribution of income from the natural resources of the country ( currently high poverty despite high income from mining ) and the preservation of in recent years mostly high economic growth. To this end, among other things, the minimum wage should be increased and the profits from mining operations are taxed. As an example, he described primarily the former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. In contrast, he distanced himself publicly from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, whose support he had taken still open in claim during the election campaign in 2006. The surveys him no chances of victory were initially granted. In April 2011, he received in the first round of the presidential election with 31.1 percent of surprising the most votes, but had to stand in a scheduled on June 6 runoff election the right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori, which he narrowly won. After the election, he announced a market-oriented economy while strengthening the domestic economy and the expansion of the welfare system.
On 28 July 2011, he assumed the presidency. The first few months trying Humala primarily to advertise for entrepreneurs to trust that had previously been close to his female opponent Keiko Fujimori. Great themes of his first year of the reign are the conga mining project in the Peruvian region of Cajamarca, the increase in the minimum wage, and the start of the announced social programs.