swap_horiz Héctor Béjar Alternatives

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Che Guevara

Che Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary who helped lead Cuba's 1959 revolution and later fought in Congo and...

Cuban 20TH Century Marxist Argentina

8.3 Great

2

Augusto César Sandino

Augusto César Sandino was a Nicaraguan guerrilla leader who fought the U.S. Marine occupation from 1927 to 1933 and insp...

20TH Century Nicaragua Nationalist Guerrilla

8.2 Great

3

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist writer and activist in the United States, deported in 1919 for anti-war and ra...

USA Organizer 20TH Century Writer

8.2 Great

4

Pancho Villa

Pancho Villa was a Mexican revolutionary general who led the División del Norte and became a central figure in the 1910...

20TH Century General Mexican Mexico

8.1 Great

5

Omar Mukhtar

Omar Mukhtar was a Libyan Senussi leader who fought Italian colonial rule in Cyrenaica for years before his capture and...

20TH Century Libya Guerrilla Anti Colonial

7.7 Good

6

Dedan Kimathi

Dedan Kimathi was a Kenyan Mau Mau leader who organized armed resistance to British colonial rule and was executed by co...

20TH Century Kenya Guerrilla Anti Colonial

7.7 Good

7

José Mujica

José Mujica was a former Uruguayan Tupamaro guerrilla prisoner who served as Uruguay's president from 2010 to 2015 and l...

20TH Century President Uruguay Guerrilla

7.6 Good

8

Camilo Cienfuegos

Camilo Cienfuegos was a Cuban revolutionary commander who helped take Yaguajay in 1958 and entered Havana after Batista'...

Cuban 20TH Century Cuba Commander

7.4 Good

9

Celia Sánchez

Celia Sánchez was a Cuban revolutionary who organized support for the Granma expedition and became a key member of Fidel...

Organizer Cuban 20TH Century Cuba

7.3 Good

10

Vilma Espín

Vilma Espín was a Cuban revolutionary and chemical engineer who fought in the July 26 Movement and founded the Federatio...

Cuban 20TH Century Feminist Cuba

7.3 Good

11

Carlos Marighella

Carlos Marighella was a Brazilian communist guerrilla and author of the 1969 Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla, killed...

20TH Century Leftist Brazil Marxist

6.8 Fair

12

Tomás Borge

Tomás Borge was a Nicaraguan revolutionary and last surviving FSLN founder, later serving as interior minister after the...

20TH Century Nicaragua Founder Sandinista

6.7 Fair

13

Miguel Enríquez

Miguel Enríquez was a Chilean physician and co-founder of the MIR, killed in a 1974 firefight with Pinochet's security f...

20TH Century Marxist Chile Guerrilla

6.7 Fair

14

Salvador Cayetano Carpio

Salvador Cayetano Carpio was a Salvadoran labor leader who founded the FPL guerrilla organization in 1970, later part of...

20TH Century Marxist El Salvador Guerrilla

6.5 Fair

15

Raúl Sendic

Raúl Sendic was a Uruguayan lawyer and founder of the Tupamaros, an urban guerrilla movement active in Uruguay during th...

20TH Century Uruguay Socialist Guerrilla

6.5 Fair

16

Manuel Marulanda Vélez

Manuel Marulanda Vélez was the Colombian guerrilla known as Tirofijo, a founder and longtime commander of FARC from its...

20TH Century Marxist Colombia Guerrilla

6.4 Fair

17

Camilo Torres Restrepo

Camilo Torres Restrepo was a Colombian priest and sociologist who joined the ELN guerrillas and died in combat in 1966,...

20TH Century Leftist Colombia Guerrilla

6.4 Fair

18

Hilda Gadea

Peruvian economist and APRA activist who married Che Guevara in 1955, introduced him to Central American leftist network...

20TH Century Peruvian Feminist Socialist

5.8 Mediocre

19

Pierre Mulele

Congolese revolutionary who led a Maoist-inspired peasant insurgency in Kwilu Province from 1964 and was executed by the...

20TH Century Congolese Martyr Guerrilla

5.7 Mediocre

20

Víctor Polay

Peruvian revolutionary who co-founded and led the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) in the 1980s and was impriso...

20TH Century Peruvian Leader Guerrilla

3.9 Poor