| Sumario: | The image of the Marshal Andrés Avelino Cáceres (Ayacucho, 1836-Ancón, 1923), a hero of the War of the Pacific and former president of Peru, has been used in recent years by etnocacerismo, a political movement of rather violent trajectory that links militaristic, indigenist, and nationalist elements. How can one explain the appropriation of this national hero? Was it the state’s lack of interest in including Cáceres in the “official pantheon of heroes”? What did the etnocaceristas find in the marshal to turn it into a symbol? This essay tries to answer these questions, and to reconstruct the complex and partial official appropriation of this hero.
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