List of movements/Militant and/or Criminal Groups/South America

• Group of Popular Combatants (Ecuador)

Argentina

Active

• Mapuche Ancestral Resistance

Defunct

• Federales (1816-1880)
• Unitarios (1816-1880)
• Civic Union (1890-1891)
• Radical Civic Union (1893, 1905, 1932)
• Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (1919-1922)
• Argentine Patriotic League (1919-1930)
• Argentine Civic Legion (1931-1937)
• Alliance of Nationalist Youth (1937-1943)
• United Officers' Group (1943)
• Nationalist Liberation Alliance (1943-1955)
• Civil Commands (1951-1958)
  • Radical Militia (1946-1958)
  • Catholic Action (1955-1958)
  • Socialist Militia (1955-1958)
  • National Democratic Militia (1955-1958)
• General Confederation of Labour (1955-1958, 1969-1972)
• Union of Secondary Nationalist Students (1955-1966)
• National Liberation Army-Peronist Liberation Movement (1955-1973)
• Tacuara Nationalist Movement (1957-1966)
• Peronist Youth (1959-1963)
• Argentine National Socialist Front (1960-1990s)
• Azules Faction (1962-1963)
• Colorados Faction (1962-1963)
• People's Guerrilla Army (1963-1964)
• National Justicialist Militia (1963-1966)
• Argentine National Socialist Movement (1963-1966)
• Peronist Revolutionary Action (1963-1967)
• Detachment of Peronist Offensive (1963-1967)
• Base Peronism (1963-1967)
• Peronist Liberation Action (1963-1967)
• Peronist Revolutionary Movement (1964-1967)
• People's Revolutionary Army (1965-1980)
• Rebel Armed Forces (1966)
• Revolutionary Armed Forces (1967-1973)
• Argentine Liberation Front (1967-1973)
• Guerrilla of the Liberation Army (1968-1972)
• Peronist Armed Forces (1968-1979)
• General Confederation of Labor of Argentines (1968-1974)
• Railway Union (1969)
• Union of Mechanics and Related Automotive Transport (1969)
• Automotive Tramway Union (1969)
• Argentine Federation of Light and Power Workers (1969)
• Movement of Priests for the Third World (1969-1972)
• Montonero Peronist Movement (1970-1981)
• Popular Liberation Commands (1973-1974)
• Workers Power Communist Organization (1973-1975)
• Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (1973-1976)
• All for the Fatherland Movement (1986-1989)
• Painted Faces (1987-1990)

Bolivia

Active

• Red Ponchos
• Santa Cruz Cartel
• Chapare Cartel

Defunct

• Liberal Rebels (1898-1899)
• Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (1952)
• National Liberation Army (Ñancahuazú Guerrilla) (1966-1967)
• National Liberation Army (Teoponte Guerrilla) (1970)
• The Corporation/Santa Ana Cartel (1970s-1990)
• Zarate Willka Armed Forces of Liberation (1985-1991)
• Túpac Katari Guerrilla Army (1986-1992)
• Néstor Paz Zamora Commission (1989-1990)
• Anarchic Cell for Revolutionary Solidarity (2012)

Brazil

Active

• Amigo dos Amigos
• Antibala V7
• Bala na Cara
• Bonde dos 40
• Carecas do ABC
• Comando Vermelho
• Communist Party of Brazil (Red Fraction)
• Família do Norte
• Guardiões do Estado
• Jihad Media Battalion
• Okaida
• Primeiro Comando da Capital
• Terceiro Comando Puro

Defunct

• Quilombo dos Palmares (1630-1695)
• Juliana Republic (1839)
• Riograndense Republic (1836-1845)
• Cabanagem (1835-1840)
• Cabanada in Pará (1832-1835)
• Cabanada in Pernambuco and Alagoas (1832-1834)
• Thirty-Three Orientals (1825-1828)
• Canudos (1893-1897)
• São Paulo (1932)
• Maracaju (1932)
• Gaucho United Front (1932)
• File:Soc.png National Liberation Alliance (1934-1937)
• Integralist Rebels (1938)
• Shindo Renmei (1940s)
• 8th October Revolutionary Movement (1966-1985)
• Araguaia Communist Guerrilla (1966-1975)
• National Liberation Action (1967-1974)
• Palmares Armed Revolutionary Vanguard (1969-1972)
• Terceiro Comando (1980-2002)
• Primeiro Comando do Maranhão (2006-2017)

Chile

Active

• Antagonic Nuclei of the New Urban Guerilla
• Primera Línea (First line/Frontline)
• Garra Blanca Antifascists (and other antifascists tied to hooligan groups)
• Revolutionary Capitalism
• Arauco-Malleco Coordinator
• Weichán Auka Mapu
• Malleco Mapuche Resistance
• Mapuche Lafkenche Resistance

Defunct

• Liberal Rebels (1851-1859)
• Patriotic Leagues (1910s-1920s)
• Revolutionary Left Movement (1965-1991)
• Organized Vanguard of the People (1968-1971)
• Fatherland and Liberty Nationalist Front (1971-1973)
• Rolando Matus Command (1971-1973)
• Lautaro Youth Movement (1982-1994)
• Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (1983-1987)
• FPMR dissidents (1987-1999)
• Revolutionary Anarchist Front (2007-2009)
• La Vanguardia (2019-2020)

Colombia

Active

• National Liberation Army
• FARC dissidents
• Popular Liberation Army
• Indigenous Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Pacific
• Los Rastrojos
• The Gulf Clan
• The Office of Envigado
• The Zs
• Sinaloa Cartel
• Jalisco New Generation Cartel

Defunct

• Supremes (1839-1842)
• Conservative Guerrillas (1851-1958)
• File:Soc.png Liberal Guerrillas (1851-1958)
• Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (1964-2016)
• 19th of April Movement (1974-1990)
• Cali Cartel (1975-1995)
• Medellin Cartel (1976-1993)
• American Anticommunist Alliance (1978-1979)
• Death to Kidnappers (1981-1990s)
• Workers Revolutionary Party of Colombia (1982-1991)
• Quintin Lame Armed Movement (1984-1991)
• Simón Bolívar Guerrilla Coordinating Board (1987-1994)
• People's Revolutionary Army (1996-2007)
• United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (1997-2006)
• Black Eagles (2006-2009)

Paraguay

Active

• Paraguayan People's Army
• Armed Peasant Association
• Army of Marshal López

Defunct

• United National Liberation Front (1960-1970s)
• First Of March Organization (1970s)

Peru

Active

• Shining Path
• Militarized Communist Party of Peru
• Rondas Campesinas
• The Resistance

Defunct

• The Buffaloes (1930-1948)
• Revolutionary Left Movement (1962-1965)
• National Liberation Army (1962-1965)
• Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (1984-1997)
• Rodrigo Franco Command (1985-1990)
• Hill Group (1990-1994)
• Ethnocacerist Rebels (2000-2005)

Venezuela

Active

• Colectivos
  • La Piedrita
  • Revolutionary Movement Tupamaro
• Bolivarian Forces of Liberation
• Cartel of the Suns
• La Guajira Cartel
• FARC dissidents

Defunct

• Revolutionary Left Movement (1960-1988)
• Armed Forces of National Liberation (1962-1969)
• Red Flag (1970-1994)
• Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 (1982-1997)

Historical

• Tupamaros (Uruguay, 1967-1972)
• ¡Alfaro Lives, Dammit! (Ecuador, 1983-1991)

References

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