"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, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Peru, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Part Three is dedicated to the Central American Civil Wars of the 1980s and 1990s in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. Part Four 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Origins and evolution of the Latin American guerrilla movements / Dirk Kruijt, Eduardo Rey Tristn, Alberto Martín Álvarez -- Cuba and the Latin American Left / Dirk Kruijt -- The sixties and the Foco Guerrilla / Eduardo Rey Tristn -- Guerrilla movements in the Dominican Republic / Cyrus Veeser and Lilian Bobea -- Notes on the guerrilla experience in Venezuela (1958-1994) / Eudald Cortina Orero -- The first cycle of the Guatemalan insurgency (1954-1972) / Carlos Figueroa Ibarra -- The Peruvian guerrilla movements of the 1960s / Jan Lust -- The Bolivian guerrilla movements in four phases / Gustavo Rodríguez Ostria -- The urban experience : rethinking the Guevarist Foco / Eduardo Rey Tristn -- Guerrillas in Brazil, 1960's and 1970's / Celso Castro -- The guerrilla experience in Uruguay (1963-1972) / Eduardo Rey Tristn -- Guerrillas in Argentina : a history of four decades (1950-1980) / Hernn Confino and Marina Franco -- Formation and development of the armed left in Chile (1965-1990) / Igor Goicivic Donoso -- The Central American civil wars / Alberto Martín Álvarez -- The Sandinista guerrilla, revolution and legacy / Dirk Kruijt and Alberto Martín Álvarez -- The revolutionary movement in El Salvador / Alberto Martín Álvarez -- The second cycle of the Guatemalan insurgency (1970-1996) / Mario Vázquez Olivera and Fabin Campos Hernndez -- Singularities and transversalities in the insurgent cycle / Dirk Kruijt -- Colombia : 70 years of guerrilla warfare / Darío Villamizar -- Sendero Luminoso, the MRTA, and the Peruvian paradoxes / Martin Tanaka -- Mexico's armed socialist movement during the 1960s and 1970s / Adela Cedillo -- The emergence of The Junta Coordinadora Revolucionaria : historical context and political process in the Southern Cone / Aldo Marchesi -- A balance of the Latin America guerrilla / Dirk Kruijt, Alberto Martín Álvarez and Eduardo Rey Tristn.