Claudia Coari

{{Short description|Quechua politician in Peru}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Family name hatnote|Coari|Mamani|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Claudia Coari | image = Congresista Claudia Coari.jpg | alt = A woman wearing a white top and a small, crooked bowler hat speaks into a microphone. These bowler hats have been worn by Quechua women in this way since the 1920s. | caption = Coari Mamani in 2012 | office1 = [[Congress of the Republic of Peru]] | term_start1 = 2011 | term_end1 = 2014 | party = [[Peruvian Nationalist Party]] | birth_name = Claudia Coari Mamani | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1967}} | birth_place = Peru | death_date = | death_place = | education = | spouse = | children = }} '''Claudia Coari Mamani''' (born 1967) is a [[Quechua people|Quechua]] politician in Peru. She was a member of the [[Congress of the Republic of Peru]] between 2011 and 2014, representing the [[Peruvian Nationalist Party]] (''Partido Nacional Peruano''),<ref name="calderon">{{cite news |last1=Calderon Vilca |first1=Rene Alfredo |title=Congresista Claudia Coari: 'Yo también soy mamá, para mi hijita tengo que darme tiempo' |url=http://losandes.com.pe/oweb/Sociedad/20130728/73527.htmltp://losandes.com.pe/oweb/Sociedad/20130728/73527.html |accessdate=2 August 2019 |work=Los Andes |date=28 July 2013}}</ref> but was no longer a congresswoman by March 2018.<ref>{{cite news |title=Claudia Coari quiere competir con Pineda por el sillón regional |url=https://diariocorreo.pe/edicion/puno/claudia-coari-quiere-competir-con-pineda-por-el-sillon-regional-807325/ |accessdate=2 August 2019 |work=Correo |date=10 March 2018 |quote=La excongresista de la República, Claudia Coari Mamani ...}}</ref>

In 2018 she was part of a delegation of indigenous women leaders from 10 countries in South America who traveled to Chile for the launch of a [[Food and Agriculture Organization]] campaign to eradicate hunger. She stressed the importance of family farms for [[food security]], saying that in her area women took on most of this work.<ref name="mujeres">{{cite web |title=Mujeres indígenas de Suramérica se suman a la campaña de la FAO para erradicar el hambre |url=https://www.efe.com/efe/america/sociedad/mujeres-indigenas-de-suramerica-se-suman-a-la-campana-fao-para-erradicar-el-hambre/20000013-3740499# |publisher=Agencia EFE |accessdate=2 August 2019 |date=5 September 2018}}</ref>

She was congratulated by Bolivian president [[Evo Morales]] for wearing the indigenous [[pollera]] colourful woollen skirt in Congress, with pride in her heritage.<ref name="trip">{{cite web |last1=Orbegozo |first1=Manuel |title=A Brief Introduction to Peru’s Vibrant Polleras |url=https://theculturetrip.com/south-america/peru/articles/a-brief-introduction-to-perus-vibrant-polleras/ |publisher=Culture Trip |accessdate=2 August 2019 |date=6 March 2017}}</ref>

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