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 editors deem to be distinct “ripples” in the insurgent wave catalyzed by the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Part 1 looks at campaigns based on foquismo, or rural small-group paramilitary warfare, in the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Guatemala, Peru, and Bolivia in the decade following Fidel Castro's victory. Part 2 turns to urban guerrilla movements in Brazil and the Southern Cone, concentrating on the decade from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. The political-military organizations that shaped Nicaraguan, Salvadoran, and Guatemalan politics from the early 1970s onward are the focus of part 3. Part 4 breaks from the ripple scheme...
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