\n Antauro Humala, the brother of a former Peruvian president and leader of a failed 2005 uprising, was released early from prison on Saturday, hinting at a return to politics.\n<\/p>\n
\n The sibling of former President Ollanta Humala and an ex-military officer is the leader of Peru's Ethnocacerist ethnic nationalist movement that seeks to put the country's Indigenous peoples in power.\n<\/p>\n
\n He served more than 17 years of a 19-year prison term handed down for the 2005 uprising, which sought to force the resignation of democratically elected president Alejandro Toledo.\n<\/p>\n
\n He and supporters attacked a police station in the southern Andean city of Andahuaylas, leaving six people dead, including four police officers.\n<\/p>\n
\n \"We all feel very proud of what we did in Andahuaylas,\" Antauro Humala said after his release from the Ancon II prison in northern Lima.\n<\/p>\n
\n A handful of supporters waited outside the facility chanting \"President Antauro.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n The 59-year-old has long been a media obsession thanks to his wide-ranging eccentricities.\n<\/p>\n
\n His lawyer Carmen Huidobro hinted at a return to politics after his release, saying, \"It is possible that (Antauro) will resume political life, it is likely that he will run for some office.\"\n<\/p>\n
\n His sentence was reduced due to time spent dedicated to work and education, the country's prison authority announced in a surprise decision on Friday night, under a law that allowed him to deduct one year and seven months.\n<\/p>\n
\n During the 2021 election campaign, current leftist President Pedro Castillo proposed pardoning Humala, but once in power he never spoke publicly about the issue again.\n<\/p>\n
\n Antauro and Ollanta Humala, a retired lieutenant colonel, are longtime political rivals but in 2000 they led a rebellion against president Alberto Fujimori, who is serving a 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity committed during his presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Antauro Humala, the brother of a former Peruvian president and leader of a failed 2005 uprising, was released early from prison on Saturday, hinting at a return to politics. The sibling of former President Ollanta Humala and an ex-military officer is the leader of Peru's Ethnocacerist ethnic nationalist movement that seeks to put the country's […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[553],"tags":[],"ji_location":[],"class_list":["post-104541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-feed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n