Currently, the People's Revolutionary Armed Forces ( FARP ) of Cape Verde are undergoing major reorganisation.

Furthermore, he suggested that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recently gave the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia $ 300 million.

They put in place the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, which ruled until September 1979.

Four principal left-wing guerrilla groups — the Guerrilla Army of the Poor ( EGP ), the Revolutionary Organization of Armed People ( ORPA ), the Rebel Armed Forces ( FAR ), and the Guatemalan Party of Labour ( PGT ) — conducted economic sabotage and targeted government installations and members of government security forces in armed attacks.

The Montoneros and the Revolutionary Armed Forces later claimed responsibility for the attack.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People ’ s Army (, FARC – EP and FARC ) are a Colombian Marxist – Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization involved in the continuing Colombian armed conflict since 1964.

Colombia's Program for Humanitarian Attention for the Demobilized announced in August 2008 that 339 members of Colombia's rebel groups surrendered and handed in their weapons in July, including 282 guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia: FARC soldiers patrolling the Cauca Valley.

* The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) and the Illicit Drug Trade, Ricardo Vargas Meza, Transnational Institute ( TNI ), June 1999

On May 25, 1997, a group of seventeen soldiers in the Sierra Leone army led by Corporal Tamba Gborie and loyal to the detained Major General Johnny Paul Koroma launched a military coup which sent President Kabbah into exile in Guinea and they established the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council ( AFRC ).

In 1997 the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council seized power.

* 1996 – War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed.

Armed opposition to the Sandinista Government eventually divided into two main groups: The Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense ( FDN ), a U. S. supported army formed in 1981 by the CIA, U. S. State Department, and former members of the widely condemned Somoza-era Nicaraguan National Guard ; and the Alianza Revolucionaria Democratica ( ARDE ) Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, a group that had existed since before the FSLN and was led by Sandinista founder and former FSLN supreme commander, Edén Pastora, a. k. a. " Commander Zero ".

* September 4 – The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia attack a military base in Guaviare, Colombia, starting 3 weeks of guerrilla warfare that will claim the lives of at least 130 Colombians.

Thousands of children were recruited and used by all sides during Sierra Leone ’ s conflict ( 1993 – 2002 ), including the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ), the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council ( AFRC ), and the pro-government Civil Defense Forces ( CDF ).

In June 2007, the Special Court for Sierra Leone found three accused men from the rebel Armed Forces Revolutionary Council ( AFRC ) guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious violations of international humanitarian law, including the recruitment of children under the age of 15 years into the armed forces.

Currently Raúl Castro — brother of former President Fidel Castro — is President of the Council of State, President of the Council of Ministers ( sometimes referred to as the Prime Minister ), First Secretary of the Communist Party, and Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Armed Forces.

Overview: Designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism in 1982, the Government of Cuba maintained a public stance against terrorism and terrorist financing in 2010, but there was no evidence that it had severed ties with elements from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) and recent media reports indicate some current and former members of the Basque Fatherland and Liberty ( ETA ) continue to reside in Cuba.

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* The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC-EP ), a very active communist guerilla group in Colombia, sometimes use car bombs against military targets in Bogotá, Cali, Cauca and other cities.

Although the Badge of Military Merit fell into disuse after the American Revolutionary War, the concept of a military award for individual gallantry by members of the U. S. Armed Forces had been established.

Betancourt was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) on 23 February 2002 and was rescued by Colombian security forces six and a half years later on 2 July 2008.

In March 1985, it was announced that the National Command of the Revolutionary Forces Command in the Arab Nation had been formed with Gaddafi at its head.

He became Commander-in-Chief of the Palestinian Revolutionary Forces two years later, and in 1973, became the head of the PLO's political department.

With the advent of the French Revolutionary Wars, Amherst was recalled as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in January 1793: however is generally criticised for allowing the armed forces to slide into acute decline, a direct cause of the failure of the early campaigns in the Low Countries: William Pitt said of him " his age, and perhaps his natural temper, are little suited to the activity and the energy which the present moment calls for ".

There were delegates from the NLF, the Alliance of National, Democratic and Peace Forces, the People's Revolutionary Party ( South Vietnamese communist party ), and " the usual assortment of mass organizations, ethnic groups, and geopolitical regions.

* The Colombian armed conflict ( 1964 – present ) is a complex perpetual war between the following three factions: ( 1 ) the Colombian government, which is the formal nation of Colombia represented by the vast majority of its society ( rural and urban, poor and rich ), the Colombian politicians, business interests, and military ; ( 2 ) the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which in Spanish is " Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia ", is abbreviated FARC, and claims to represent rural poor Colombian people, especially by appealing to Marxism – Leninism ; and ( 3 ) the National Liberation Army, which in Spanish is " Ejército de Liberación Nacional ", is abbreviated ELN, and, like FARC, also claims to be representing rural poor people, but unlike FARC, emphasizes Liberation theology more than Marxist — Leninism.

Uribe's father was killed by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) guerrillas during a 1983 kidnapping attempt.

According to press reports, the Caribbean Bloc of the FARC-EP ( Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ) controls several of the department's gold mines and manages 48. 000 hectares of land through figureheads.

As of 2011 urban militias, known as Milicias Populares, of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia are active in the city and surrounding areas.

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# Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) ( Colombia )

Simón Trinidad ( born July 30, 1950 ) is the alias of Juvenal Ovidio Ricardo Palmera Pineda, a high-ranking member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ), and reputedly the first high-ranking member of that guerrilla group to be captured.

Category: Members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

His paternal grandfather, also named Abner, had fought in the American Revolutionary War.

Coolidge's great-great-grandfather, also named John Coolidge, was an American military officer in the Revolutionary War and one of the first selectmen of the town of Plymouth Notch.

It was named for Francis Nash, the American Revolutionary War hero.

Al-Bakr was named president and Saddam was named his deputy, and deputy chairman of the Ba ' athist Revolutionary Command Council.

The westernmost portion became Washington County, named after George Washington, the southern most portion became Montgomery County, named after another Revolutionary War general, Richard Montgomery.

Washington County was the first county in the United States to be named for the Revolutionary War general ( and later President ) George Washington.

* Lexington ( United States ) — named for Lexington, Massachusetts, the site of the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.

They are named after General Joseph Warren, who was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolutionary War:

It was named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 at the Battle of Quebec.

It was named for the Revolutionary War general ( and later President of the United States ) George Washington.

Greene County is the name of fourteen counties in the United States of America, each named in honor of American Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene:

Putnam county was named in honor of Israel Putnam, a hero in the French and Indian War and a general in the American Revolutionary War.

It is named after General Nicholas Herkimer, who died from battle wounds in 1777 after taking part in the Battle of Oriskany during the Revolutionary War.

Putnam County is named in honor of Israel Putnam, who was a hero in the French and Indian War and a general in the American Revolutionary War.

The county was organized February 28, 1845 and named for Israel Putnam, a hero in the French and Indian War and a general in the American Revolutionary War.

Putnam County is named in honor of Israel Putnam, who was a hero in the French and Indian War and a general in the American Revolutionary War.

Stephen was named for a supposed founder of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, who had, according to family tradition, come from England or Wales as early as 1665, as well as his great-great grandfather Stephen Crane ( 1709 – 1780 ), a Revolutionary War patriot who served as New Jersey delegate to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia.

Montgomery County is named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 while attempting to capture Quebec City, Canada.

It was named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 while attempting to capture Quebec City, Canada.

Montgomery County is Arkansas's 45th county, formed on December 9, 1842, and named after Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general.

It was named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 while attempting to capture Quebec City, Canada.

Montgomery County was named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War Brigadier General killed in 1775 while attempting to capture Quebec City, Canada.

An alternative story holds that the County was named for Thomas Montgomery, from Virginia, who served in the Revolutionary War.