Education
South America
Colombia 1964 鈥� 2016
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is a guerrilla organization born
in 1964 from an ongoing internal conflict known as La Violencia (the violence), which
originated from economic grievances in the 1920s. Initially, armed peasants demanded
better social ...
El Salvador 1979 鈥� 1992
The Salvadoran Civil War began in 1979 when a leftist guerilla movement sprang up
in El Salvador following leftist victories in neighboring Central American states
of Guatemala and Nicaragua. The United States viewed this war as a central front in
the Cold War and ...
Paraguay 1947
Paraguay experienced an internal conflict, known as the Barefoot Revolution from March
7 to August 20, 1947.1 Although the Paraguayan Civil War lasted less than six months,
it profoundly impacted the country鈥檚 politics and governance. The conflict was between
the ...
Peru 1980 鈥� 2003
Peru experienced an internal conflict between the government and the Communist party,
Sendero Luminoso, or 鈥淪hining Path,鈥� which was established by Abimael Guzman in Ayacucho
in the wake of democratization after more than a decade of military ...