The EGTK (Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army): Aymara Insurgency in Bolivia

Abstract This article gives an account of the EGTK uprising during the 1980s and 1990s. It played a key part in the indigenous resistance to Bolivia’s ethnic and class divisions and helped expedite the first indigenous presidency in 2006. Many of the key figures from both within the Morales-led MAS regime and the left groups that remained in opposition came to public attention in the history detailed below. The article documents Bolivia’s twentieth-century experience under an oligarchy, giving way to a coalition of workers and indigenous peasants opposed to neoliberal restructuring.