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Antauro Igor Humala Tasso (born 29 June 1963) is a ethnocacerist, a former army major, and nationalist leader. He has been the Leader of the political party ANTAURO since its creation in 2023.
He studied at the Franco-Peruvian College of the city of Lima and at the National College of Sciences and Arts of Cuzco. He entered the National Agrarian University La Molina in the career of Agricultural Engineering.
Four police officers and one gunman died on the first day of the rebellion. The following day Humala agreed to surrender, though had still failed to do so by the third day, claiming that the government had reneged on its promise to guarantee a "surrender with honour". Eventually he surrendered and was taken to Lima under arrest on 4 January 2005 and was sentenced to 19 years in prison.
Humala was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in the April 2006 elections running under the Go on Country - Social Integration Party.
In 2011 his brother became president of Peru.
In the last 2020 parliamentary elections, he joined the political party Union for Peru, a party that obtained a total of 13 seats out of 130 nationwide. Later that year, his partisans in Congress were among those who voted for the removal of former President Martín Vizcarra.
In the recent 2021 president election, Humala entered into an alliance with the candidate for Free Peru (Perú Libre), Pedro Castillo. The alliance is conditioned on an early pardon from his prison sentence and his reinstatement into the military, potentially leading the armed forces. In return, he pledged to support Castillo and defend him from a potential military coup led by conservative generals with ties to the far right including former presidential candidate, Rafael López Aliaga.
In September 2009 Antauro Humala was sentenced to 25 years in prison but, it was reduced to between 17 and 19 years in prison. On 14 May 2011, Antauro Humala filed a lawsuit against journalist Jaime Bayly claiming Bayly was "disseminating inaccurate versions" of the events in 2005.
In 2012 the National Penitentiary Institute transferred him to the high-security Callao Naval Base for "repeated violations of penitentiary regulations". There he joined Abimael Guzmán and Vladimiro Montesinos. On 1 August 2012, his father Isaac Humala announced the publication of another book that Antauro had completed while imprisoned. Antauro's book De La Guerra Etnosanta A La Iglesia Tawantinsuyana laid out the need to create a neo-incan religion that would coalesce the many varied religious traditions, both classical and contemporary, of the Indigenous Andean peoples.
In February 2015, a report from the Directorate of Criminalistics of the National Police of Peru on the bodies of the four law enforcement officers who died in this coup, indicates that the bullets that caused their death came from above and behind, while Antauro Humala's group was ahead of them. The argument that there are witnesses claiming that the deaths were caused by military snipers from the government of Alejandro Toledo turns out to be contradictory, because it was supposedly an assault.
In October 2018, the Peruvian Patriotic Front was founded. In June 2019, Antauro Humala announced that the foundation of Patriotic Front is official.
In September 2019, he presented his request for conditional release before the National Penitentiary Institute of Peru, in which he is serving a 19-year prison sentence in the Virgen de la Merced de Chorrillos prison.
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