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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 and chemical engineer who fought in the July 26 Movement and founded the Federation of Cuban Women in 1960.

Kim Il-sung was a communist politician who founded North Korea in 1948 and ruled it as its Supreme Leader until his death in 1994, establishing a pervasive cult of personality.

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

Tomás Borge was a Nicaraguan revolutionary and last surviving FSLN founder, later serving as interior minister after the 1979 Sandinista victory.

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

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

Raúl Sendic was a Uruguayan lawyer and founder of the Tupamaros, an urban guerrilla movement active in Uruguay during the 1960s and 1970s.

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

Manuel Marulanda Vélez was the Colombian guerrilla known as Tirofijo, a founder and longtime commander of FARC from its 1964 origins.

The Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla is Carlos Marighella's 1969 Brazilian handbook on urban insurgency, written after his break with the Communist Party.

Congolese revolutionary who led a Maoist-inspired peasant insurgency in Kwilu Province from 1964 and was executed by the Congolese government in 1968.

Peruvian Marxist who led an ELN-affiliated guerrilla campaign in the 1960s, was imprisoned, and decades later briefly served as Foreign Minister of Peru in 2021.

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 the Sri Lankan Tamil founder of the LTTE in 1976 and led its armed separatist campaign until his death in 2009.