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List Of Guerrilla Movements
This is a list of notable guerrilla movements. It gives their English name, common acronym, and main country of operation. Latin America * Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) * Sandinista National Liberation Front – Nicaragua * Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) or Zapatistas – Chiapas, Mexico * Jungle Commando – Suriname * Contras – Nicaragua * Morazanist Patriotic Front – Honduras * Tupamaros Movimiento de Liberación Nacional Tupamaros – Uruguay Argentina * Tacuara Nationalist Movement (Movimiento Nacionalista Tacuara – MNT) (1955–1966) * Justicialist National Militia (Milicia Nacional Justicialista - MNJ) (1955-1966) * Peronist Armed Forces (Fuerzas Armadas Peronistas – FAP) (1968–1971) * People's Revolutionary Army (Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo – ERP) (1969–1976) * Montoneros (Movimiento Peronista Montonero – MPM) (1970–1981) * Libertarian Resistance (Resistencia Libertaria – RL) (1974–1978) * Revolutionary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guerrilla Movements
Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which small groups of combatants, such as paramilitary personnel, armed civilians, or Irregular military, irregulars, use military tactics including ambushes, sabotage, Raid (military), raids, petty warfare, hit-and-run tactics, and Mobility (military), mobility, to fight a larger and less-mobile traditional military. Although the term "guerrilla warfare" was coined in the context of the Peninsular War in the 19th century, the tactical methods of guerrilla warfare have long been in use. In the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu proposed the use of guerrilla-style tactics in ''The Art of War''. The 3rd century BC Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus is also credited with inventing many of the tactics of guerrilla warfare through what is today called the Fabian strategy. Guerrilla warfare has been used by various factions throughout history and is particularly associated with revolutionary movements and popular resistance agains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logo De Las FAP
A logo (abbreviation of logotype; ) is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition. It may be of an abstract or figurative design or include the text of the name it represents as in a wordmark. In the days of hot metal typesetting, a logotype was one word cast as a single piece of type (e.g. "The" in ATF Garamond), as opposed to a ligature, which is two or more letters joined, but not forming a word. By extension, the term was also used for a uniquely set and arranged typeface or colophon. At the level of mass communication and in common usage, a company's logo is today often synonymous with its trademark or brand.Wheeler, Alina. ''Designing Brand Identity'' © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (page 4) Etymology Douglas Harper's Online Etymology Dictionary states that the term 'logo' used in 1937 "probably a shortening of logogram". History Numerous inventions and techniques have contributed to the contemporary logo, includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutionary Left Movement (Bolivia)
The Revolutionary Left Movement – New Majority ( es, Movimiento de la Izquierda Revolucionaria – Nueva Mayoría; MIR–NM) was a social democratic political party in Bolivia whose registration was annulled in 2006 after it failed achieve the electoral results needed to maintain its official registration. In the elections of 2009, the party did not field any candidates. It was a member of the Socialist International.Howard J. Wiarda, Harvey F. Kline, ''Latin American politics and development'', Westview Press, 1990 History The MIR was founded in 1971 by a merger of a left-wing faction of Bolivia's Christian Democratic Party and the radical student wing of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR). It has been led from the beginning by Jaime Paz Zamora. The MIR was becoming influential in the labor movement and politics during the early 1970s, but it was repressed by the government of Hugo Banzer later in the 1970s. In 1978, the MIR joined the left-of-center UDP alliance o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anarchic Cell For Revolutionary Solidarity
The Anarchic Cell For Revolutionary Solidarity ( es, Célula Anárquica Por la Solidaridad Revolucionaria, CASR-FAI/FRI) was an anarchist urban guerrilla group that was active in the city of La Paz, where it carried out several explosive attacks in the first half of 2012, causing material damage. Activity In April 2012, it claimed attacks under various different names in the cities of La Paz and Cochabamba. The first attack by the group was reported on May 14, 2012 when they detonated an explosive charge with two sticks of dynamite at the French car importer Renault, located on October 20 avenue in the city of La Paz, damaging two vehicles and the company's windows. Hours later the group claimed responsibility in a statement where it stated its motives, questioning the democratic system, anthropocentrism and also announcing more attacks. On May 24, 2012, militants of the group left explosives in a bank branch of the Banco Nacional de Bolivia that was attached to the Miraflores Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Túpac Katari Guerrilla Army
The Túpac Katari Guerrilla Army ''(Ejército Guerrillero Túpac Katari)'' was a guerrilla movement in Bolivia. Albeit of indigenist inspiration, the movement had a multiracial membership. The organization descended directly from the original revolutionaries trained by Che Guevara in the 1960s. Their objective was to fight for social equality in Bolivia and amongst its indigenous population. They carried out their first attack on July 5, 1991, destroying an electric power pylon in El Alto, a major city which adjoins La Paz, Bolivia's administrative capital. Most of the group's attacks have been similarly small-scale and they had confined their activities largely to Bolivia. The group suffered a major setback in a crackdown in 1992, when much of its leadership was neutralized through incarceration. The group was named after Túpac Katari, a colonial-era indigenous revolutionary. One of their former members, Álvaro García Linera, has served as the vice-president of Bolivia. See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Néstor Paz Zamora Commission
The Nestor Paz Zamora Commission (Spanish: ''Comision Nestor Paz Zamora'', CNPZ) was a militant Bolivian Marxist–Leninist organization which became publicly known in October 1990. It was named after Nestor Paz Zamora, the brother of Jaime Paz Zamora, who was then the president of Bolivia. Nestor Paz Zamora had participated in the 1970 guerrilla insurgency at Teoponte. Kidnapping On June 11, 1990, members of the group kidnapped businessman Jorge Lonsdale, the manager of the Vascal bottling firm (a Coca-Cola distributor), shareholder in La Razón newspaper, and member of La Paz's Club Social. Lonsdale's family members and the authorities were initially unaware that his kidnapping was the act of a political organization rather an ordinary attempt to extract ransom. Members of the group publicized its existence with graffiti bearing its initials and the phrase ''Bolivia digna y soberana'' (Bolivia dignified and sovereign) in August 1990. The group first gained international attenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ñancahuazú Guerrilla
The Ñancahuazú Guerrilla or Ejército de Liberación Nacional de Bolivia (''National Liberation Army of Bolivia''; ELN) was a group of mainly Bolivian and Cuban guerrillas led by the guerrilla leader Che Guevara which was active in the Cordillera Province (Bolivia), Cordillera Province of Bolivia from 1966 to 1967. The group established its base camp on a farm across the Ñancahuazú River, a seasonal tributary of the Río Grande (Bolivia), Rio Grande, 250 kilometers southwest of the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The guerrillas intended to work as a ''foco'', a point of armed resistance to be used as a first step to overthrow the Bolivian government and create a socialist state. The guerrillas defeated several Bolivian patrols before they were beaten and Guevara was captured and executed. Only five guerrillas managed to survive, including Harry Villegas, and fled to Chile. Background Congo Crisis Che Guevara was committed to ending American imperialism, and he decided t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friends Of The Earth (Argentina)
The Friends of the Earth ( es, Amigxs de la Tierra/FAI) was an urban guerrilla group from Buenos Aires, known for perpetrating arson attacks against public and private vehicles (popularly known as "sunroofs"). Background During the years 2010 to 2013, anarchist groups claimed the largest campaign of political violence in recent Argentine history, without deaths or injuries, with attacks that reached police patrols, government and bank buildings and private property. The authorities attributed several small-scale attacks against financial institutions and offices of prominent national and foreign companies to Chilean anarchist groups. The ''modus operandi'' of the "sunroofs" usually attacked at night or at dawn, or if the area was quiet, they even did it at noon, always quickly and cautiously leaving small incendiary explosives or spraying gasoline on the tires. Attacks The group began to carry out arson attacks in the towns of Villa del Parque and Caballito in late 2011 and early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vandalika Teodoro Suárez Gang
The Vandalika Teodoro Suárez Gang was an Argentine urban guerrilla group active in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, from 2010 to 2011, where it launched attacks on banks and offices belonging to private companies. Activity On March 30, 2010, the group claimed responsibility for an explosion against a Banco Nación branch in Calle Lavalle, Buenos Aires. The attack did not leave any injuries, only material damage to the branch building. On August 27, the group together with ''Asociadxs autonomxs independientes levemente deskiciadxs'' planted an explosive in a branch of Banco Francés, in the Almagrov neighborhood when a call warned that there was a suspicious backpack next to the blindex door of the Banco Francés around 6:00, the notice was made to the Explosives Firefighters Brigade of the Federal Police. The explosives experts decided to detonate the backpack, which contained a bomb with a clockwork mechanism inside. The shock wave caused the bank's blindex to break and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutionary Cells (Argentina)
The Revolutionary Cells were an urban guerrilla group created in mid-2009 in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, being responsible for several arson attacks and explosive attacks against government buildings, transnational offices and "bourgeois structures". History In mid-2009, the Luciano Arruga Brigade joined forces with the Juan Bianchi Nuclei, Joaquín Penina Nucleus, Hilda Guerrero de Molina and Simón Radowitzky Nucleus, and together expropriated weapons belonging to employees of private security companies in the towns of General Pacheco and Quilmes, in Greater Buenos Aires, claimed in various anti-authoritarian media sources. The other cells that belonged to the group included the Diego Petrissans Nucleus, Leandro Morel Nucleus, Juan Bianchi Nucleus, 22 August Class Collective, Bonefoi-Carrasco Unit, Cárdenas-Fuentealba Unit, and Heroes of the Tragic Week Unit. The group released a statement highlighting some questions and doubts that generated large-scale actions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resistencia Libertaria
(initially known as the ) was an Argentine anarchist urban guerrilla group that emerged in 1974 via a network of workers and university militants from La Plata y Córdoba. The group worked during the last military dictatorship in Argentina and was the only anarchist guerrilla group during the period of state terrorism in the 1970s. At least eight members of the organization were kidnapped and went missing during the dictatorship. History During an interview by Chuck W. Morse with Fernando López on 13 October 2002 where he talked about the principles of the group, who joined it, and how the group despite several "insurgent cadres" never had a dissemination organ effective enough like other guerrilla groups, in addition to other armed actions and the influence that this group had on the next generations of anarchists. Between May 31 and June 8, 1978, the Argentine government kidnapped a score of RL militants, the most important being Rafael Tello, Pablo Tello, Elsa Martínez, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
