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guerrilla

[guh-ril-uh] / gəˈrɪl ə /


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Castro promoted guerrilla movements throughout Latin America and leveraged his alliance with the Soviet Union to send tens of thousands of Cuban soldiers into Africa.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Under the departing President Gustavo Petro, a former leftist guerrilla, the government embarked on simultaneous peace negotiations with about a dozen narco-trafficking groups to urge them to disarm and abandon drug smuggling.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Culture Clash — which includes members Montoya, Ric Salinas and Herbert Sigüenza — arrived on the scene as a guerrilla sketch theater group from the San Francisco Mission District in 1984.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2026

Valdes was second-in-command of a guerrilla column led by Argentina's Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

From Barron's Jun. 21, 2026

But this was a guerrilla war, and the usual rules didn’t apply.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

Nor are streets, schools or government buildings named after him, a prohibition he imposed shortly after his guerrillas overthrew Fulgencio Batista in 1959.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

The couple formed part of a 99-strong group of guerrillas who struck a deal with outgoing President Gustavo Petro to disband two months ago.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

For generations, these documents were little more than family heirlooms that served as painful reminders of fortunes lost after the revolution led by Fidel Castro’s bearded guerrillas.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Believing he would replicate the triumph in Cuba, he went to Bolivia with a small group of would-be guerrillas.

From The Wall Street Journal May 25, 2026

The guerrillas live in the hills and mountains, where grass grows up to fifteen feet high, tearing clothes to shreds and cutting through the skin like razors.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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