Guillermo Carnero Hoke

Guillermo Carnero Hoke (June 17, 1917 – March 31, 1985)

Early life Carnero Hocke was born in Piura, Peru, on June 17, 1917, to a Peruvian father and an Irish mother. He grew up in Talara, where he joined the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) in 1931 at the age of 14. In 1933 he travelled to Lima and joined the Communist Youth. He remained a communist until 1939, when he re-joined APRA. Other members included his brother-in-law Gustavo Valcárcel, Eduardo Jibaja, Julio Garrido Malaver, Mario Florian, Felipe Arias-Larreta, Abraham Arias-Larreta, Luis Carnero Checa, Antenor Samaniego, Ricardo Tello Neira, Juan Gonzalo Rose, Manuel Scorza, Alberto Valencia and Felipe Neira. During this time, he published two poetry books, Epopeya to Atahualpa (1944) and Agrocantos (1945). He and his companions were imprisoned and tortured. During this period, he became disillusioned with APRA, as APRA politicians had sided with the state against the revolutionary current.

Peruvian Revolutionary Nationalist Party Upon his release from prison in 1957, Carnero Hoke founded the Peruvian Revolutionary Nationalist Party with several other ex-APRA members.

The Peruvian Revolutionary Nationalist Party (PRNP) was based in Lima. The PRNP Organizing Committee was initially composed of Carnero Hoke as general secretary, Alberto Bolognesi as Deputy General Secretary, Victor Ortiz Rodriguez (Political Secretary), Carmelo Salvatierra and Francisco Martínez Arbalza (Interior Secretaries), Carlos Jiménez and Héctor Carcovich (Secretaries for Economy), Rogger Mercado (Press Secretary), Asuntos Indígenas, José Castro Guillén (Labour and Indigenous Affairs Secretary), Lino Pedro Pastrana and Oscar Calderón (Propaganda Secretaries), María Salazar Moscoso and Hebé Heredia C (Women's Affairs Secretaries), Ernesto Elias (Secretary for Discipline), José Dodero (Secretary for Conjunctions), German F Minaya (Secretary for Peasantry) and Luis Fernando Diaz (Secretary for Organization).

In 1974 Carnero Hoke founded the Peruvian Indian Movement (MIP) with another indigenous activist, Virgilio Roel Pineda, but the organization never reached a broad audience.

Carnero Hoke had the first in a series of strokes in 1976, resulting in a month's hospitalization. He survived a second, but his third caused a cerebral infarction that resulted in his death on March 31, 1985.