Born on 1 January 1976, Quiroga Vargas founded the
Kechwa Apurímac Integration Movement and was its leader from 2006 to 2010. He ran as a candidate of the
Ethnocacerist Movement for the regional presidency of
Apurímac in 2010. In the
Las Bambas protests, he took the lead after the arrest of protest leader Gregorio Rojas. During the protests, he gave a speech calling for a "civic-military union" against "colonizing companies." During the
2021 Peruvian presidential election, he endorsed the candidacy of
Pedro Castillo of
Free Peru, whom he considers his "brother in struggle." During a program hosted by
Beto Ortíz, audio was played where Quiroga Vargas expressed his intention to carry out "revolutionary process[es]". == References ==