Ezequiel Ataucusi Gamonal (10 April 1918-21 June 2000) was an Peruvian politician and prophet. He was the founder of an Evangelical church named Israelites of the New Universal Covenanta and their theocratic party known as Agricultural People's Front of Peru. He was the party's candidate for president of Peru in two times: for 1995 election and 2000 election. He was never elected for any political charge but his party grown with an important representation in the Peruvian Congress.[1][2]
He was born in 1918 in Huarhua, a small village in Arequipa into a poor family and did a numerous works such as shoemaker, soldier and carpenter. After read an adventist bible, he stated to be chosen by god to create a "new Israel" in the Amazon to punish the "faithless" of the Israeli people.[3] He earned thousands of followers, especially between poor sectors in Peru. Also he used Inca mythology for his preaching.[4]
He died in Miraflores, Lima due a kidney failure and his followers did a three days funeral and waited for his resurrection beside the body decorated with gold jewelry.[5]
References
- ^ ""El agro al poder": la sorpresiva entrada de un partido teocrático en el Congreso peruano". El País. 30 January 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ^ ""Agro in power": the surprise entry of a theocratic party into the Peruvian Congress". Fr24. 29 January 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
{{cite news}}: Text "International" ignored (help) - ^ "Ezequiel Gamoral". The Telegraph. 26 July 2000. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ^ "Sacred Cocaine: Inside the Peruvian Sect Accused of Growing Coca in the Amazon". Vice. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ^ "Peru: why a fundamentalist sect became an unexpected winner in elections". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
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