Indigenous Guard
Insurgency Overview The Indigenous Guard (Guardia Indígena) is a network of loosely affiliated nonviolent self-defense organizations...
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Riles Kiley
- May 31
M-19
Insurgency Overview The 19th of April Movement (Movimiento 19 de Abril), M-19, was a guerilla movement in Colombia active during the...
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Rowan Glass
- May 30
Guardians of the Forest
Insurgency Overview The Guardians of the Forest (Guardiões da Floresta) is an armed Indigenous paramilitary and vigilante movement in the...
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Alejandra Cabrera
- May 23
Los Lobos
The Lobos, the second-largest criminal group in Ecuador, comprises over 8,000 members incarcerated throughout the country.
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Franco Ramos
- Jan 26
Resistencia Mapuche Lavkenche (RML)
Insurgency Overview The Resistencia Mapuche Lavkenche (Mapuche Lafkenche Resistance) (RML), is a militant organization operating in the...
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Rowan Glass
- Jan 19
Indigenous Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Pacific (FARIP)
Note: This is not the official flag of the FARIP, but rather a substitute containing the flag of Colombia (as this is the country they...
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Franco Ramos
- Dec 26, 2023
Antagonic Nuclei of the New Urban Guerrilla (NANGU)
The Núcleos Antagónicos de la Nueva Guerrilla Urbana (Antagonic Nuclei of the New Urban Guerrilla) is an organization active since 2011 form
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Ivan Gomez
- Oct 19, 2023
Colectivos
Introduction & Overview Colectivos are armed, far-left paramilitary groups that reside in Venezuela’s poorest neighbourhoods and slums....
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Ivan Gomez
- May 22, 2023
Bolivarian Forces of Liberation (FBL/FPLN)
Insurgency Overview The Bolivarian Forces of Liberation (Fuerzas Bolivarianas de Liberación - FBL), known locally as “los boliches”, are...
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Ryan McLiverty
- Jan 14, 2023
Guacamaya
Introduction and Overview Guacamaya is an environmentalist hacktivist group, presumed to be based in Latin America, that publicly emerged...
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Ivan Gomez
- Dec 23, 2022
Jamaat Al Muslimeen (JAM)
Note: This is not the official flag of the JAM, but rather a reproduction containing the flag of Trinidad and Tobago (as this is the...
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Adrian Cornejo
- Nov 25, 2022
Shining Path
Insurgency Overview The Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) is a far-left guerrilla group based in Peru. The group was led and founded in the...
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Antoine Brimbal
- Nov 18, 2022
The South is my Country
Insurgency Overview The South Is My Country (O Sul é o Meu Pais in Portuguese) is a separatist movement in the south of Brazil. The...
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Franco Ramos
- Nov 15, 2022
Weichan Auka Mapu (WAM)
Insurgency Overview Weichan Auka Mapu (WAM), which means “fight of the rebel territory” in Mapudungun (the Mapuche language), is a...
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Franco Ramos
- Oct 15, 2022
Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM)
Insurgency Overview The Coordinadora de Comunidades en Conflicto Arauco-Malleco (Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco), known as CAM, is an active...
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Adrian Cornejo
- Oct 13, 2022
National Liberation Army (ELN)
Insurgency Overview The Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), also known as the National Liberation Army, is a Colombian-based far-left...
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Antoine Brimbal
- Aug 22, 2022
Paraguayan People’s Army (EPP)
The Paraguayan People’s Army (EPP) is a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla group active since March 2008 in Paraguay. Nonetheless, the EPP’s...
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Antoine Brimbal
- Jul 1, 2022
Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE)
Collaboration with Meridian News Just yesterday in Ecuador, the federal government and the CONAIE found an agreement in order to end the...
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Antoine Brimbal
- Jun 26, 2022
Andahuaylazo Etnocaceritas
The Andahuaylazo Etnocaceritas were an ultra-nationalist ethnic insurgency group which fought for the resignation of Alejandro Toledo...
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Antoine Brimbal
- Jun 24, 2022
M-19 Guerrillas (19th of April Movement)
Despite having dissolved as an armed group in 1990, the M-19 guerrilla group of Colombia has regained global attention due to Colombia's...
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