Terrorism in South America?: The case of "Alfaro vive carajo"
Terrorism today is on the agenda worldwide. Its political nature has prevented consensus among the different actors within international organizations, hindering a solution that enjoys global acceptance, hence in the field of security poses a threat to states.South America was influenced by the Cuba...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2016 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) |
| Repository: | Conjuntura Austral |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/59573 |
| Online Access: | https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/ConjunturaAustral/article/view/59573 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Armed Forces Guerrilla Insurgency Wave of the New Left Revolutionary Force Urban Insurgency Terrorism Fuerzas Armadas Ola de la Nueva Izquierda Fuerza Revolucionaria Guerrilla Urbana Terrorismo |
| Summary: | Terrorism today is on the agenda worldwide. Its political nature has prevented consensus among the different actors within international organizations, hindering a solution that enjoys global acceptance, hence in the field of security poses a threat to states.South America was influenced by the Cuban revolution in 1959, with a wave of armed groups appearing in the 60s, which acted according to regional and global trends.This article links these groups using David Rappoport´s classification of Terrorism and aims to show the existence of two periods within the "third wave" of this classification. A first period of subversion that had more characteristics of rural insurgency, and a second period, known as the urban insurgency, with more features of terrorism.This work begins with a conceptual analysis of terrorism, followed by a study of the performance of groups framed within the non-governmental terrorism in South America and finally analyzes the performance of the group Alfaro Vive Carajo in Ecuador and the actions taken in their period of existence. |
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