Terrorism in South America?: The case of "Alfaro vive carajo"
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https://doi.org/10.22456/2178-8839.59573Keywords:
Armed Forces, Guerrilla, Insurgency, Wave of the New Left, Revolutionary Force, Urban Insurgency, TerrorismAbstract
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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