Marshal Cáceres: A Military or a Popular Hero? Reflections On A Peruvian National Hero
The image of the Marshal Andrés Avelino Cáceres (Ayacucho, 1836-Ancón, 1923), a hero of the War of the Pacific and former president of Peru, has been used in recent years by etnocacerismo, a political movement of rather violent trajectory that links militaristic, indigenist, and nationalist elements...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2006 |
| País: | Ecuador |
| Institución: | Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales |
| Repositorio: | Revista ICONOS |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec:article/179 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/179 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | etnocacerismo national heroes Marshal Andrés Avelino Cáceres memory military Perú-19th Century Perú-20th Century héroes patrios Mariscal Andrés Avelino Cáceres memoria militares Perú siglo XIX Perú siglo XX |
| Sumario: | The image of the Marshal Andrés Avelino Cáceres (Ayacucho, 1836-Ancón, 1923), a hero of the War of the Pacific and former president of Peru, has been used in recent years by etnocacerismo, a political movement of rather violent trajectory that links militaristic, indigenist, and nationalist elements. How can one explain the appropriation of this national hero? Was it the state’s lack of interest in including Cáceres in the “official pantheon of heroes”? What did the etnocaceristas find in the marshal to turn it into a symbol? This essay tries to answer these questions, and to reconstruct the complex and partial official appropriation of this hero. |
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