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Juana Azurduy (1780–1862) was a revolutionary military leader who fought against Spanish rule in Upper Peru (modern-day Bolivia) during the South American wars of independence. She commanded guerrilla forces of indigenous and mestizo soldiers and, after distinguishing herself in battle, was commissi...

Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered is an updated release of the 2017 action role-playing game originally developed by Guerrilla Games. Released in 2024 for PlayStation 5 and Windows, the remaster was handled by Nixxes Software. It features upgraded character models, improved lighting, and enhanced environ...

Alluri Sitarama Raju (1897–1924) was an Indian revolutionary who led the Rampa Rebellion of 1922–1924 against British colonial rule in the Eastern Ghats region of the Madras Presidency, in present-day Andhra Pradesh. He mobilized indigenous tribal communities, particularly the Koya people, to resist...

Ernesto "Che" Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, and author who became a central figure in the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Alongside Fidel Castro, he helped overthrow the Batista dictatorship and subsequently held key roles in the new Cuban government, including president of the n...

Augusto César Sandino was a Nicaraguan revolutionary and guerrilla leader who opposed the United States military occupation of Nicaragua from 1927 to 1933. His forces conducted a sustained insurgency against U.S. Marines and the Nicaraguan National Guard, making him a symbol of nationalism and resis...

Pancho Villa, born José Doroteo Arango Arámbula, was a Mexican revolutionary leader and military commander active during the Mexican Revolution. He led the División del Norte, a powerful revolutionary army based in northern Mexico, and was closely associated with agrarian and regional opposition to...

Guerrilla Warfare is a military manual written by Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, first published in 1961. The book outlines Guevara's theory of foquismo, which posits that a small group of armed paramilitaries can create the conditions for a larger revolution. It draws heavily on Guevara's own e...

"On Guerrilla Warfare" is a military treatise written by Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong in 1937. The text outlines strategies for peasant-based insurgency, originally developed during the conflict between China and Japan. Mao divides guerrilla warfare into three distinct phases, detailing the t...

Che (2008) is a two-part biographical epic directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Benicio del Toro, covering Ernesto Guevara's role in the Cuban Revolution and his subsequent ill-fated guerrilla campaign in Bolivia.

Krim Belkacem (1922–1970) was an Algerian revolutionary leader in the National Liberation Front (FLN) during the Algerian War of Independence against France (1954–1962). He served as a guerrilla commander in the Kabylia region before joining the FLN's external political leadership as vice president...

Omar Mukhtar (c. 1858–1931) was a Libyan Senussi religious and resistance leader who led guerrilla campaigns against Italian colonial rule in Cyrenaica for roughly two decades. A teacher of the Quran and a Senussi sheikh, he organized local fighters in sustained resistance during the Italian reconqu...

Dedan Kimathi was a leader of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, leading the Kenya Land and Freedom Army in an armed resistance against British colonial rule in the 1950s. Captured in 1956, he was tried and executed by colonial authorities the following year, becoming a symbol of the Kenyan independence...

José Mujica was a Uruguayan politician, farmer, and former member of the Tupamaros guerrilla movement who was imprisoned for years during Uruguay's period of authoritarian rule. After the restoration of democracy, he entered electoral politics and served as president from 2010 to 2015. His administr...

Camilo Cienfuegos was a Cuban revolutionary commander who fought with Fidel Castro's rebel forces during the Cuban Revolution. He became widely known for leading a column westward from the Sierra Maestra and for the capture of Yaguajay in December 1958, an action that helped weaken Fulgencio Batista...

Celia Sánchez (1920–1980) was a Cuban revolutionary who assisted the July 26 Movement by organizing supplies and logistics for the Granma expedition that brought Fidel Castro and other fighters to Cuba in 1956. After the revolution she held several government roles and remained a close associate of...

Vilma Espín was a Cuban revolutionary, chemical engineer, and political organizer who lived from 1930 to 2007. She participated in the July 26 Movement and worked in the underground struggle against Fulgencio Batista before the 1959 Cuban Revolution. In 1960 she became the founding president of the...

Kim Il-sung was a North Korean revolutionary, communist politician, and founding leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, established in 1948. He led North Korea from its foundation until his death in 1994 and built a highly centralized political system around his authority. His rule is...

Carlos Marighella was a Brazilian communist revolutionary, writer, and political organizer active during the twentieth century. He broke with the Brazilian Communist Party after the 1964 military coup and became a leading figure in the National Liberation Action, an armed organization that used urba...

Tomás Borge Martínez was a Nicaraguan revolutionary, politician, and writer. He co-founded the Sandinista National Liberation Front, or FSLN, in 1961 and became one of its senior commanders during the struggle against the Somoza government. After the Sandinista victory in 1979, Borge served as Nicar...

Miguel Enríquez (1944-1974) was a Chilean physician, Marxist revolutionary, and one of the founders of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR). He became the organization's secretary general in 1967 and remained in that role until his death. Enríquez was killed on October 5, 1974, during an...

Salvador Cayetano Carpio was a Salvadoran labor organizer and revolutionary who became known by the political name Marcial. In 1970, he founded the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí, or FPL, a Marxist guerrilla organization that later became one of the groups forming the Farabundo Mart...

Raúl Sendic was a Uruguayan lawyer and political activist who helped found the Tupamaros, formally known as the National Liberation Movement. The movement became an urban guerrilla organization active in Uruguay during the 1960s and early 1970s, using armed actions and political agitation against th...

Camilo Torres Restrepo was a Colombian Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, and political activist. Influenced by social inequality and conflict in Colombia, he became associated with liberation theology and joined the National Liberation Army, known in Spanish as the ELN. He was killed in combat in...

Manuel Marulanda Vélez was a Colombian Marxist guerrilla leader whose real name was Pedro Antonio Marín. Known by the nickname Tirofijo, he helped found the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in 1964 and remained its principal commander for decades. He was a central figure in Colombia'...

The Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla is a political and military pamphlet written by Brazilian revolutionary Carlos Marighella and published in 1969. It presents guidance for small insurgent groups operating in cities, covering subjects such as organization, mobility, clandestine activity, propagan...

Pierre Mulele was a Congolese political figure and revolutionary associated with the Kwilu rebellion in the former Republic of the Congo. Beginning in 1964, he led an insurgency influenced by Maoist ideas and sought to challenge the government through rural guerrilla warfare. Mulele later returned a...

Héctor Béjar is a Peruvian Marxist writer, sociologist, and former guerrilla associated with Peru's political conflicts during the 1960s. He participated in the National Liberation Army, known in Spanish as the ELN, and was imprisoned after the guerrilla movement was defeated. In 2021, Béjar briefly...

The Bushwhackers is a twentieth-century Western novel set during the American Civil War, focusing on the brutal guerrilla warfare of the border states.

Velupillai Prabhakaran was a Sri Lankan Tamil militant leader who founded the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 1976. He led the organization during its armed campaign to establish an independent Tamil state in northern and eastern Sri Lanka. The LTTE fought the Sri Lankan government and other Tam...