Best Guerrilla

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

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

Omar Mukhtar was a Libyan Senussi leader who fought Italian colonial rule in Cyrenaica for years before his capture and execution in 1931.

Dedan Kimathi was a Kenyan Mau Mau leader who organized armed resistance to British colonial rule and was executed by colonial authorities in 1957.

José Mujica was a former Uruguayan Tupamaro guerrilla prisoner who served as Uruguay's president from 2010 to 2015 and legalized cannabis in 2013.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Congolese revolutionary and politician Laurent-Désiré Kabila overthrew Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997 to become the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Jonas Savimbi was an Angolan revolutionary and political leader who founded the UNITA movement in 1966 and fought in the decades-long Angolan Civil War.

Peruvian revolutionary who co-founded and led the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) in the 1980s and was imprisoned following his recapture in Lima in 1992.

Colombian guerrilla leader Manuel Marulanda co-founded the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in 1964, leading it as a Marxist insurgency for several decades.

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.