guerrilla
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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
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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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Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam
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