Guerrilla Army of the Poor

Guerrilla Army of the Poor
Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres Participant in Guatemalan Civil War
Logo of the Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres
Active	19 January 1972 – 15 February 1997
Ideology	Marxist–Leninism Communism Vanguardism
Leaders	Rolando Morán
Area of operations	Guatemala
Part of	URNG
Allies	URNG PGT MR-13 FAR ORPA (and it's supporters)
Opponents	Guatemala (and it's supporters)

The Guerrilla Army Of The Poor (EGP – Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres) was a Guatemalan Marxist-Leninist guerrilla movement, one of the four organizations comprising the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG – Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca) that negotiated and signed the Peace accords in Guatemala with the Government and the Army of Guatemala.

Initially, the guerrilla organization went by the acronym NORC but soon became known as the EGP. On January 19, 1972, the first guerrilla contingents entered the forests of the Ixcán, to the north of Quichė. As a communist organization, it combined a vanguard party structure with paramilitary forces and a Marxist–Leninist ideology.

The EGP sought to organize and, to a certain extent, control elements of the Indigenous towns of Guatemala as an opposition to the dictatorial regimes of the late twentieth century.

Until the peace accords were signed on 29 December 1996, the EGP was the guerrilla organization with the greatest number of militants and territorial extension, although this level of influence was greatly diminished from earlier levels, particularly following the brutal 'pacification' of the countryside under General Efrain Rios Montt. At its peak, the EGP could rely upon a social base of approximately 250,000 people, divided in the following guerrilla fronts:

"Commander Ernesto Guevara", in the NW zone of the country and the Forest of the Ixcán.
"Ho Chi Minh" in the Ixil zone of Guatemala.
"Marco Antonio Yon Sosa" in the North Central region of the country.
"Augusto César Sandino" in the central zone of Guatemala.
"13 of November" in the Eastern zone.
"Luis Turcios Lima" in the South Coast.
"Otto René Castillo" in the capital of the country and suburban zones.

The Commander-in-Chief was Ricardo Ramirez de León, alias Commander Rolando Morán, who became the first Secretary General of URNG following the peace accords. The EGP were disbanded on 15 February 1997, two months after signing the accords, and were integrated into the URNG, which today exists as a conventional political party.

Concepcion Garcia Siguina

The Guerrilla Army of the Poor's first human field loss was that of a woman named Concepcion Garcia Siguina, who went to travel during winter of 1971 between Mexico and Guatemala by boat, to invade her country of origin (Guatemala), entering through the Guatemalan north. She had travelled to Mexico because the guerrilla's original members used that country to prepare for and plan their insurgent moves.

Garcia Siguina's boat capsized, causing her to drown on a river located at the Mexico-Guatemala frontier.^[1]

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Sources

McAllister, Carlota (2010). "A Headlong Rush into the Future". In Grandin, Greg; Joseph, Gilbert. A Century of Revolution. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. pp. 276–309. |access-date= requires |url= (help)

Cold War

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1940s	Hukbalahap Rebellion Dekemvriana Yalta Conference Guerrilla war in the Baltic states Forest Brothers Operation Priboi Operation Jungle Occupation of the Baltic states Cursed Soldiers Operation Unthinkable Potsdam Conference Gouzenko Affair Operation Masterdom Operation Beleaguer Operation Blacklist Forty Iran crisis of 1946 Greek Civil War Corfu Channel incident Turkish Straits crisis Restatement of Policy on Germany First Indochina War Truman Doctrine Asian Relations Conference Marshall Plan 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état Tito–Stalin Split Berlin Blockade Western betrayal Iron Curtain Eastern Bloc Western Bloc Chinese Civil War (Second round) Malayan Emergency Albanian Subversion

1950s	Bamboo Curtain Korean War 1953 Iranian coup d'état Uprising of 1953 in East Germany 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état Partition of Vietnam First Taiwan Strait Crisis Geneva Summit (1955) Poznań 1956 protests Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Suez Crisis Syrian Crisis of 1957 Sputnik crisis Second Taiwan Strait Crisis Cuban Revolution Kitchen Debate Bandung Conference Bricker Amendment McCarthyism Operation Gladio Iraqi July Revolution "We will bury you"

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1970s	Détente Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Black September in Jordan Corrective Movement (Syria) Cambodian Civil War Realpolitik Ping-pong diplomacy 1971 Turkish military memorandum Corrective Revolution (Egypt) Four Power Agreement on Berlin Bangladesh Liberation War 1972 Nixon visit to China North Yemen-South Yemen Border Conflict 1973 Chilean coup d'état Yom Kippur War Carnation Revolution Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Rhodesian Bush War Angolan Civil War Mozambican Civil War Ogaden War Ethiopian Civil War Lebanese Civil War Sino-Albanian split Cambodian–Vietnamese War Sino-Vietnamese War Iranian Revolution Operation Condor Dirty War Korean Air Lines Flight 902 Saur Revolution New Jewel Movement 1979 Herat uprising Seven Days to the River Rhine Struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union

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References

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Guerrilla Army of the Poor

Concepcion Garcia Siguina

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