guerrilla
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Under the departing President Gustavo Petro, a former leftist guerrilla, the government embarked on simultaneous peace negotiations with about a dozen narco-trafficking groups to urge them to disarm and abandon drug smuggling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
"It makes us a little nervous," said Darwin, who says he became a guerrilla due to a lack of work in his coca-growing region.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Culture Clash — which includes members Montoya, Ric Salinas and Herbert Sigüenza — arrived on the scene as a guerrilla sketch theater group from the San Francisco Mission District in 1984.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Valdes was second-in-command of a guerrilla column led by Argentina's Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 2026
It was an odd sensation for a man who was the leader of a nascent guerrilla army.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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The trek takes Etna across a bombed-out city and into a mountain range occupied by refugees and guerrillas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
For generations, these documents were little more than family heirlooms that served as painful reminders of fortunes lost after the revolution led by Fidel Castro’s bearded guerrillas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Since the coup, some of Myanmar's myriad ethnic minority factions have banded with pro-democracy guerrillas to fight the armed forces.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
That is 55% more than in 2000, when the U.S. began providing Colombia billions in equipment and training to roll back drug production and Marxist guerrillas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
The cheap Russian boots pinch her feet as she trudges, the last of a single file of would-be guerrillas, up the intolerably fragrant mountainside.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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