Richard Gott. Guerrilla Movements in Latin America.

Contents

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE

SOLDIERS AND PEASANTS IN GUATEMALA

1 – The Fall of Arbenz and the Origins of the Guerrillas

2 – The Guerrillas go into Action

3 – Yon Sosa, the Trotskyists and MR13

4 – Turcios Lima and the FAR

5 – Elections and the Death of Turcios

6 – César Montes and the Growth of Anti-Communist Organizations

7 – Reunification of the Guerrilla Movements and the Break with the Communists

8 – The United States’Role: a Dead Ambassador and Exiled Priests

PART TWO

REVOLUTIONARY FAILURE IN VENEZUELA

1 – The Fall of Pérez Jiménez

2 – The Ascendancy of Rómulo Betancourt

3 – The Beginning of the Guerrillas

4 – The Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional

5 – Urban Struggle: Elections and After

6 – Guerrillas versus Communists

7 – The FALN of Douglas Bravo and Luben Petkoff

8 – Communists versus Fidel

9 – A Communist Conclusion?

PART THREE

VIOLENCE IN COLOMBIA

1 – La Violencia and its Legacy

2 – Communists and Independent Republics

3 – MOEC and FUAR

4 – The Fall of Marquetalia

5 – The National Liberation Army

6 – Camilo Torres and the Church

7 – Camilo Torres and the United Front

8 – Camilo Torres and the Guerrillas

9 – The People’s Liberation Army

PART FOUR

DISASTER IN PERU

1 – The Peruvian Background

2 – Hugo Blanco and the Valley of La Convención

3 – The Death of Javier Heraud at Puerto Maldonado

4 – Luis de la Puente and the MIR

5 – ‘Tupac Amaru’ and Guillermo Lobatón

6 – ‘Pachacutec’ and Luis de la Puente

7 – Héctor Béjar and ‘Javier Heraud’

8 – The Communists and the Guerrillas

9 – The Guerrillas Sum Up

PART FIVE

TRAGEDY IN BOLIVIA

1 – Jorge Masetti and the Guerrillas of Salta

2 – The Sino-Soviet Split

3 – Preparations in La Paz

4 – Ñancahuazu

5 – The New ‘Grito de Murillo’

6 – Betrayal and Action

7 – Régis Debray

8 – The Communists Stand Aside

9 – The Fate of Joaquín

10- The Capture and Death of Che Guevara

EPILOGUE

DEFEAT OF THE REVOLUTION?

Appendices

I – The First Declaration of the Sierra de las Minas, Guatemala, December 1964

II – Resolution of the central committee of the Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo, 1965

III – Declaration announcing the separation of the FAR from the PGT, January 1968

IV – The programme of the Venezuelan FLN, 1963

V – Agrarian programme of the Colombian guerrillas of Marquetalia, July 1964

VI – Chapter from the central report approved by the Tenth Congress of the Colombian Communist party, January 1966

VII – Principles and programme ofthe National Liberation Army of Colombia, January 1965

VIII – The platform of Camilo Torres, March 1965

IX – Declaration of the Colombian EPL, February 1968

X – Speech by Luis de la Puente Uceda, Lima, February 1964

XI – Communique of the meeting of the Latin American Communist parties, Havana, December 1964

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