Mitka

The Túpac Katari Indian Movement (, MITKA) was an Indigenous political party in Bolivia.
The Túpac Katari Indian Movement was founded in April 1978 by Luciano Tapia Quisbert. Proclaiming itself “the political vanguard of the Indian people of Collasuyo” with the policy of returning to communal forms of production and the re-establishment of the indigenous languages, MITKA's base was in the campesino communities of the altiplano (Andean high plain).
The MITKA has its origins in independence movements started under Spanish... more