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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Autores: Jiménez, Roberto, Franchi, Tássio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Conjuntura Austral
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/59573
Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/ConjunturaAustral/article/view/59573
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave: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
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Sumario: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.