Colombian Guerrilla History

Study Notes

Gobierno de Gustavo Rojas Pinilla: iniciado el 13 de junio de 1953, finalizado el 13 de junio de 1957.
Intentos de unión de partidos liberales y conservadores: para derrocar el régimen, secret meetings held from 1950.
Impacto de Benidorm (1956): leaders acknowledged shared responsibility in the decay of democracy, began searching for a balanced solution.
Pacto de Sitios (1957): signing in Spain, both parties agreed to share power equally for 16 years.
National Front: end of violent bipartisan struggle in Colombia, desmobilized some liberal guerrillas but new groups emerged due to ideological shifts in Latin America.
Origen de la Guerrilla Colombiana: 1964, during the government of Guillermo Leon Valencia, in Tolima as a means of self-defense against persecution of peasant organization led by the Communist Party.
Causes of the guerrilla: political decision to create separate military force and social reasons, luchas for territory and transition from social movement to armed campesino self-defense.
First generation guerrillas: ELN and ELN-PL, product of movements like the LMR, Patria Libre and PRT.
Second generation guerrilla: M-19, influenced by Cuban revolution and nationalist struggles.
FARC: rural conflicts like those in Sumapaz and Tequendama in the 1920s and 1930s, led to a war of villarrica and mass displacement of peasants, guerrilla dynamics: political discourse and armed action.

Description

Test your knowledge of Colombian guerrilla history, from the government of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla to the formation of FARC and other guerrilla groups. Explore the political, social, and historical events that shaped the guerrilla movements in Colombia.