Abstract

PAZ NOMEY, José Luis. Apiaguaiqui Tumpa and the Kuruyuki massacre (1891-1892). Rev. Fuent. Cong. [online]. 2014, vol.8, n.31, pp. 37-49. ISSN 1997-4485.

On 29 March 2014, 122 years of the assassination of the leader chiriguano Apiaguaiqui Tumpa. His execution -accompli in Monteagudo-, marked the end of the last war waged in the nineteenth century by the natives of the current Bolivian Chaco, against the conservative government in power and the white landowning class or Karai, who maintained the Guarani -and still do- on condition of slavery. This paper, examines the development of the Kuruyuki Massacre, an event vital to unders tanding the historical process of the Chiriguano people, which also was invisible for a long time by traditional, Andean-centric and official historiography of Bolivia.

Keywords : Kuruyuki Massacre; Apiaguaiqui Tumpa; Chiriguano People; Bolivia in the Nineteenth Century; Landowning System.