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Feb 1, 2021 · Latin American Guerrilla Movements combines national histories and continental synthesis to paint a broad and detailed picture of Latin America's armed Left from the 1950s through the 1990s. Following an introduction and an essay on Cuba's regional role, the book presents sixteen body chapters grouped into four parts that correspond to what the ...
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Summary. Armed insurrections are one of three methods that the left in Latin America has traditionally used to gain power (the other two are competing in elections, or mass uprisings often organized by labor movements as general strikes). After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, guerrilla warfare became the preferred path to power ...
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Dec 11, 2018 · Latin America has been plagued by guerilla factions which challenge existing governments. In Mexico, these groups, such as the Zapatistas, affected the revolution; while in Brazil, guerrilla movements occurred throughout the 20th century, starting as early as the 1930’s in the so-called Coluna Prestes and continued with the Guerrilha do ...
Sep 25, 2016 · In the 1960s and 70s, guerrilla groups sprang up in every country in the region except Costa Rica: the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in Nicaragua, the 8th October Revolutionary...
Nov 29, 2011 · A summary overview of the most important insurgent movements in Latin America during the 1960s through 1980s. Extensive coverage of Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and Chile, plus short summaries of Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil.
May 1, 1993 · The Cuban Revolution inspired two generations of Latin American revolutionaries, spawned guerrilla movements across the hemisphere, and dominated inter-American relations into the late 1980s. These two very different books, by a historian and a sociologist, acknowledge in their own ways this pervasive impact.
history of Latin America, but they have not always had the same mean ing, purpose, or significance. For example, there were guerrillas against the Spaniards during the wars of Independence, and more recently they have been confused with or assimilated into isolated armed groups, ban ditry, and nativistic movements, as well as frustrated ...
