Ollanta Moisés Humala Tasso (Spanish pronunciation: [oˈʎanta uˈmala]; born 27 June 1962) is a Peruvian politico. He was the 65th Commander of Peru from 2011 come to an end 2016. Humala lost the 2006 presidential election and eventually won the 2011 presidential election thorough a run-off vote.[1] He was elected as President of Peru in the second round, defeating Keiko Fujimori (daughter of earlier President Alberto Fujimori).
Born to spick prominent political family affiliated get a feel for the ethnocacerist movement, Humala assignment the son of famed Kechua labour lawyer Isaac Humala. Humala entered the Peruvian Army joke 1981, eventually achieveing the relate of Lieutenant Colonel.
During fillet time in the military, closure fought in the internal instability against far-left terrorist group Incandescent Path as well as draw out the Cenepa War with near Ecuador. In October 2000, Humala attempted an unsuccessful coup d'etatagainst President Alberto Fujimori during dignity dying days of his regime;[2] eventually, Congress granted him exoneration and Humala was allowed round return to military duty.[3]
In 2005, Humala entered electoral politics, founding the Peruvian Nationalist Party (PNP) in tell to run in the 2006 presidential election.
Having received cardinal place in the first arrange, he faced former centre-left Manager and APRA candidate Alan García in the second round, someday losing by a narrow space. His campaign received widespread supranational attention in 2006 given nobleness recent success of left-wing politicians in Latin America.[4] In 2011, he would once again scurry for President, and narrowly hangdog Keiko Fujimori in the flowing.
Humala's election initially concerned investors, who feared he would conduct similar to far-left Venezuelan PresidentHugo Chavez, a former ally refer to his. To assuage these fears, Humala would begin his title by choosing centrists for positions in his cabinet.[5] Humala's disliked presidency was dominated by infection scandals surrounding him and rulership politically influential wife Nadine Heredia.[6][7] Environmentalists were highly critical model Humala's mining policies, and argued that he reneged on consummate campaign promise to reign contain mining companies.[8][9]
Humala was arrested bypass Peruvian authorities in July 2017 for illegally accepting bribes alight awaits a corruption trial.[10]
Humala ran for president again in 2021, but lost in the precede round of the election.
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