Edwar Husain Quiroga Vargas (born Joys Edwar Quiroga Vargas, 1 January 1976) is a Peruvian Islamic activist and politician who is the founder of

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, a non-profit organization which aims to unify concepts of Andean culture and the precepts of

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. Quiroga Vargas has been described as a follower of

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, who holds sympathies for

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and the

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Biography

Born on 1 January 1976, Quiroga Vargas founded the Kechwa Apurímac Integration Movement and was its leader from 2006 to 2010. He ran as a candidate of the

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for the regional presidency of Apurímac in 2010. In 2017, he organized the First National Congress for the Decolonization of Peru and Tahuantinsuyo where he made a "call for the union of the social forces committed to seizing and recovering the sovereignty and self-determination of the peoples of Peru and the Tahuantinsuyu" inspired by the "libertarian and decolonizing spirit of

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". In the Las Bambas protests, he took the lead after the arrest of protest leader Gregorio Rojas. During the protests, he gave a speech calling for a "civic-military union" against "colonizing companies." During the

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, he endorsed the candidacy of

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, whom he considers his "brother in struggle." During a program hosted by Beto Ortíz, audio was played where Quiroga Vargas expressed his intention to carry out "revolutionary process s.

References

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Edwar Quiroga Vargas Edwar Husain Quiroga Vargas (born Joys Edwar Quiroga Vargas, 1 January 1976) is a Peruvian Islamic activist and politician who is the founder of Inkarri Islam, a non-profit organization which aims to unify concepts of Andean civilizations, Andea ...

Ethnocacerism