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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"guerrilla groups"”.
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Discourse, Practices and Historical Representations in Two Guerrilla Groups: the Eln and the Mpla, Colombia-Angola, 1956-1986
… used in a comparative research that studies two guerrilla groups. The contexts of study, Angola and Colombia, in long internal conflicts during the second half of the twentieth century, witnessed the apparition of two guerrilla groups: the ELN (Ejército de Liberación Nacional/National Army of …
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The Special Operations Executive in Malaya: Impact and Repercussions, 1941-48
… Malaya. They worked with Malayan guerrilla groups, including the communist-sponsored Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA). The MPAJA is regarded as the precursor of the communist insurgent army of the Malayan Emergency, and has been examined from that perspective, but its …
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History, organization and belief among Cuban "plantado" political prisoners, 1959-1993
Anti-Castro activists began organizing guerrilla groups in the early 1960's to oppose the revolutionary government of Cuba. The perception that the new regime posed a threat to religion and pre-existing cultural values were among the motives for this activity. This thesis presents three case …
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How Insurgent Groups Emerge: The political process in democratic Nigeria
… ideology as causal factors in the rise of guerrilla groups. Despite the contributions of these theories they fail to capture the relatively nonrebellious inception of these groups. They also gloss over the initial cooperation these organizations had with local political elites. Other …
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From Protest Song to Social Song: Music and Politics in Colombia, 1966-2016
… ideology and extolling the revolutionary guerrilla groups that had formed in the Colombian countryside in the preceding years. However, <em>canción protesta </em>was an urban phenomenon that emerged in tandem with other countercultural currents, and their confluence in the late 1960s …
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The Ford administration, Angola and the perception of Post-Vietnam US credibility, 1974-1976
… a covert program to assist two anti-Marxist guerrilla groups in Angola. As the crisis escalated, the media discovered the operation and the Congress decided to cease all funding. A period of heated tensions ensued, resulting in Kissinger creating a new African policy to outmanoeuvre his …
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A Participatory Photo-Mapping (PPM) framework to observe and reflect on the transformation of public space: the case of the Paseo España Environmental Corridor in Bucaramanga, Colombia
… the peace agreement between the government and guerrilla groups, and the advances of regulations that help ensure public participation in political processes across the country, have contributed to the increasing need of creating community engagement processes specifically in urban centers that …
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Middle Class Guerrilas: The Failure of the Mexican Student Revolutionaries to Build a Mass Movement
… communist revolutionary, where many armed urban guerrilla movements would emerge against the dictatorial one-party Mexican state of the Partido Institucional Revolucionario, or the PRI. By looking at writings and rhetoric used by these middle-class guerrillas, as well as contextualizing those …