Latin American Guerrilla Movements

Origins, Evolution, Outcomes

Dirk Kruijt (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Eduardo Rey Tristán, Alberto Martín Álvarez

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Routledge
10 December 2019

Peace studies & conflict resolution; History of the Americas; Demonstrations & protest movements; Revolutionary groups & movements; Warfare & defence

Organized around single country studies embedded in key historical moments, this book introduces students to the shifting and varied guerrilla history of Latin America from the late 1950s to the present. It brings together academics and those directly involved in aspects of the guerrilla movement, to understand each country’s experience with guerrilla warfare and revolutionary activism.

The book is divided in four thematic parts after two opening chapters that analyze the tradition of military involvement in Latin American politics and the parallel tradition of insurgency and coup effort against dictatorship. The first two parts examine active guerrilla movements in the 1960s and 1970s with case studies including Bolivia, Nicaragua, Peru, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Part 3 is dedicated to the Central American Civil Wars of the 1980s and 1990s in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. Part 4 examines specific guerrilla movements which require special attention. Chapters include Colombia’s complicated guerrilla scenery; the rivalling Shining Path and Tupac Amaru guerrillas in Peru; small guerrilla movements in Mexico which were never completely documented; and transnational guerrilla operations in the Southern Cone. The concluding chapter presents a balance of the entire Latin American guerrilla at present.

Superbly accessible, while retaining the complexity of Latin American politics, Latin American Guerrilla Movements represents the best historical account of revolutionary movements in the region, which students will find of great use owing to its coverage and insights.

Edited by: Dirk Kruijt (Utrecht University The Netherlands), Eduardo Rey Tristán, Alberto Martín Álvarez
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 644g
ISBN: 9780367192860
ISBN 10: 0367192861
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 10 December 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Origins and Evolution of the Latin American Guerrilla Movements; 2. Cuba and the Latin American Left; Part 1: First Revolutionary Ripple: The Imitation of the Successful Example; The Sixties and the Foco Guerrilla; 3. Guerrilla Movements in the Dominican Republic; 4. Notes on the Guerrilla Experience in Venezuela (1958–1994); 5. The First Cycle of the Guatemalan Insurgency (1954–1972); 6. The Peruvian Guerrilla Movements of the 1960s; 7. The Bolivian Guerrilla Movements in Four Phases; Part 2: Second Revolutionary Ripple: the Adaptation of a Non-Viable Model; The Urban Experience: Rethinking the Guevarist Foco; 8. Guerrillas in Brazil, 1960s and 1970s; 9. The Uruguayan Guerrilla Experience (1963–1972); 10. Guerrillas in Argentina: A History of Four Decades (1950–1980); 11. Formation and Development of the Armed Left in Chile (1965–1990); Part 3: Third Revolutionary Ripple: Learning from Experiences and New Influences; The Central American Civil Wars 12. The Sandinista Guerrilla, Revolution and Legacy; 13. The Revolutionary Movement in El Salvador; 14. The Second Cycle of the Guatemalan Insurgency (1970–1996); Part 4: Special Cases; Singularities and Transversalities in the Insurgent Cycle; 15. Colombia: 70 years of Guerrilla Warfare; 16. Sendero Luminoso, the MRTA, and the Peruvian Paradoxes; 17. Mexico’s Armed Socialist Movement During the 1960s and 1970s; 18. The Emergence of The Junta Coordinadora Revolucionaria: Historical Context and Political Process in The Southern Cone; A Balance of the Latin America Guerrilla

Dirk Kruijt is Professor Emeritus of Development Studies at Utrecht University, and currently is a research fellow at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and at the Centre for Military Studies at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He has published widely about military governments and revolutions; insurgency and counterinsurgency; and urban violence and non-state actors. He has been a visiting scholar at universities and research institutes in Latin America and Europe. In addition, he has been a policy advisor to the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, assigned to Latin America on multiple occasions. His most recent monograph is Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America (2017); Ethnography as Risky Business: Field Research in Violent and Sensitive Contexts (2019) was published in coedition with Kees Koonings. Eduardo Rey Tristán is Full Professor of Latin American History at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. After completing his PhD on the guerrilla movements in Uruguay, he has specialized in political violence and contemporary Latin American revolutionary movements. He has carried out long-time field research in the Rio de la Plata region and Central America. He is cofounder and coordinator of the Revolutionary New Left International Research Network on Political Violence. He has published monographs, articles and book chapters in several European and American countries, among them: La Izquierda Revolucionaria Uruguaya, 1955–1973 (2006), and Revolutionary Violence and The New Left: Transnational Perspectives (coedited with Alberto Martín, New York: Routledge, 2016). He is currently working on a political biography of the Italian left-wing editor and activist Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (expected in 2020). Alberto Martín Álvarez holds a PhD on Latin American Studies from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is currently Distinguished Professor at the Department of Public Law of the Universitat de Girona (Spain). He has been full professor at the Instituto Mora (Mexico City) and visiting researcher at several universities and research centers in Europe and Latin America. He is cofounder and coordinator of the Revolutionary New Left International Research Network on Political Violence. He has also undertaken extensive research on the origins and development of the Salvadoran revolutionary left. Among his main publications are: Revolutionary Violence and the New Left: Transnational Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2016, with Eduardo Rey, eds.) and the monograph From Revolutionary War to Democratic Revolution: The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) in El Salvador (2010).

Reviews for Latin American Guerrilla Movements: Origins, Evolution, Outcomes

This volume comes from the hand of three of the best researchers on revolutionary movements in Latin America. The time elapsed and the partial end of the last guerrilla violence in Colombia with the accumulated knowledge allow the rigorous research that is reflected in this book. -Manuel Alcantara, University of Salamanca, Spain A pioneering, comprehensive, analytical book on guerrillas / insurgency in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Cold War and the guerrillas set the way for political systems in the region and beyond. Counterinsurgency and guerrilla wars left narrow margins for democratic developments in Latin America between 1959 and 1990. A profound observation on twelve national cases. A new excellent contribution from Dirk Kruijt. -Francisco Rojas Aravena, University for Peace, Costa Rica The editors have compiled a well written and much needed comprehensive scholarly analysis of the Latin American revolutionary guerrilla movements that played a crucial role in the political history of the region in the 20th Century. It is particularly important that they have acknowledged the seminal role played by Cuba in this process. -Gary Prevost, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, College of St. Benedict and St. John's University, USA