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{{short description|Peruvian politician and prophet}}
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'''Ezequiel Ataucusi Gamonal''' (10 April 1918 – 21 June 2000), also known as '''Brother Ezequiel''',<ref name=":9">{{Cite journal|last=Masson|first=Peter|date=1991|title=Consideraciones Acerca De Un Nuevo Movimiento Religioso: Los Israelitas Del Nuevo Pacto Universal|journal=Ibero-Amerikanisches Archiv|volume=17|issue=4|pages=465–496}}</ref> was a [[Peru]]vian politician and self-proclaimed [[prophet]] of the religious movement he founded
== Early life ==
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In the 1950s while in his forties, Ataucusi experienced many issues with his life and converted from [[Roman Catholicism]] to the [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]].<ref name=":9" /><ref name=":0" /> While experiencing a serious illness, he reported that he visited a "third heaven" and addressed himself as a prophet, writing the [[Ten Commandments]] on a [[blackboard]] saying he was tasked with delivering the commandments for a second time.<ref name=":9" /><ref name=":0" /> After the incident, he was removed from the Seventh-day Adventist Church,<ref name=":0" /> subsequently beginning to evangelize rural Peruvians in 1956.<ref name=":9" />
The [[Evangelical Association of the Israelite Mission of the New Universal Covenant]] ({{lang|es|Asociación Evangélica de la Misión Israelita del Nuevo Pacto Universal}} - AEMINPU) was created by Ataucusi in 1968<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.europapress.es/internacional/noticia-candidato-frepap-congreso-peru-asegura-homosexuales-tienen-mal-sangre-20200128015313.html|title=El candidato del FREPAP al Congreso de Perú asegura que los homosexuales "tienen el mal en la sangre"
Ataucusi preached that he was chosen by
His party, the Agricultural People's Front of Peru (FREPAP), was officially founded by Ataucusi on 30 September 1989.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.frepap.org.pe/historia.html|title=Historia|website=FREPAP|access-date=2020-01-29|archive-date=29 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129115129/http://www.frepap.org.pe/historia.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> By the 1990s, his number of followers ranged from 60,000 to 200,000.<ref name=":0" /> In 1995, investigations were opened against Ataucusi surrounding allegations of killing disagreeing followers and supposed links to [[Shining Path]], though none of the accusations were ever confirmed.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title=Jump Off the Face of the Earth: Adventures of an American Nurse in Amazonas|last=Balser|first=Judy|year=2014|isbn=9781496937032|pages=133–145|publisher=Author House }}</ref>
He was the party's candidate for president of Peru three times, for the [[1990 Peruvian general election|1990 election]], [[1995 Peruvian general election|1995 election]] and [[2000 Peruvian general election|2000 election]], though he was never elected for any political office.<ref name=":5">{{cite news|url=https://elpais.com/internacional/2020/01/28/actualidad/1580173631_292621.html|title="El agro al poder": la sorpresiva entrada de un partido teocrático en el Congreso peruano|date=30 January 2019|access-date=30 January 2020|newspaper=El País}}</ref>
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