Ethnocacerist insurrectionary model as a propaganda device, according to Nugent
In his text “Andahuaylas: the limit of political translation”, the sociologist and psychotherapist Guillermo Nugent considered the ethnocacerist attack as a “propaganda device to have a greater participation in the voting intentions of the citizens”. By then it was 2005 and the following year were the presidential elections.
In his opinion, the ideology that Antauro embodies, as in so many other independent groups, aims to “translate emotions and thereby (…) win as many votes as possible”. However, simplifying politics to its translating dimension “is equivalent to minimizing the representation of interests” always a consequence of “making explicit the multiple interests that are connected (…) in social life”. In the case of ethnocacerismo, although it is true that the “movement is important (…), its greatest political effectiveness lies in the insurrectionary gesture and in establishing a kind of identification between the uniform and the race”.
