People's Revolutionary Army (Colombia)




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People's Revolutionary Army
Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo
Participant in the Colombian armed conflict

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flag of the ERP

Active 1985–2007
Ideology Marxism
Leaders Édgar Castellanos
Headquarters "Mountains of Colombia"
Area of operations Colombia

The People's Revolutionary Army (Spanish: Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo ERP) was a small marxist guerrilla organization in Colombia. The group originated in the municipality of Venadillo, Tolima Department in c. 1985 as a splinter group of the National Liberation Army and was commanded by its founder Édgar Castellanos, a.k.a. "Gonzalo" until his death in January 2007. The group became a military objective of the larger guerrilla Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia whom declared the group as an enemy and was persecuted by paramilitary. The Colombian government wanted the group for rebellion, kidnappings and extortion crimes.[1]


It operated mostly in the vicinity of the city of Ibagué capital of the Tolima Department and in the mountainous area of the Montes de María in the Colombian Caribbean region, between the departments of Sucre and Bolívar which demobilized in June, 2007. The ERP lost its marxist political background with the years and concentrated on criminal practices such as kidnappings and extortion and went down on the number of members to end up with 14 guerrillas which demobilized on September 15, 2007.[1][2]



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Colombian conflict (1964–present)



Participants

Timeline



Key aspects




• La Violencia (1948–1958)

• Marquetalia Republic

• The National Front

• Dominican Embassy (1980)

• Palace of Justice (1985)

• Patriotic Union Party extermination

• Humanitarian exchange

• Mapiripán Massacre (1997)

• Peace process (1999–2002)

• Bojayá massacre (2002)

• Valle del Cauca Deputies
hostage crisis (2002–2009)

• El Nogal Club bombing (2003)

• Parapolitics scandal (2006–7)

• Operation Emmanuel

• "False positives" scandal

• Andean diplomatic crisis (2008)

• Operation Jaque (2008)

• Operation Fenix (2008)

• Nariño massacres (2009)

• 2013 Colombian clashes

• Peace process (2012–present)

• Peace agreement referendum (2016)

 Lawsuits 

• Sinaltrainal v. Coca-Cola (2001)

• Rodriquez v. Drummond (2003)

• Doe v. Chiquita (2007)



 Kidnappings 

• Kidnappings in Colombia

• List of political hostages held by FARC



 Illegal drug trade 

• Illegal drug trade in Colombia

• War on Drugs

• Narcoterrorism



 Government aspects 

• Democratic security

• Plan Colombia

• Plan Patriota

• Colombia–United States relations

• Human rights in Colombia

• Politics of Colombia






Guerrillas
Government of Colombia
Paramilitaries


• Flag of ELN.svg ELN

• Flag of the EPL.svg EPL

• FARC dissidents

• FARIP



Former guerrillas

• Flag of the FARC-EP.svg FARC-EP (List of FARC attacks)

• Flag of M-19.svg M19

• Hammer and sickle.svg MOEC

• Flag of the CGSB.svg CGSB

• Flag of the ERP.svg ERP

• Movimiento Armado Quintin Lame



Linked to

• PCCC

• Foro de São Paulo

• PC de C (M-L)

• Cuban revolutionaries

• Provisional IRA

• ETA

• ANNCOL

• Fighters+Lovers

• Colombian drug cartels

• Some politicians



  • Military Forces of Colombia:


    • National Army



    • Air Force



    • Navy

      • Colombian Naval Infantry




    • National Police





  • Other:


    • Migración Colombia



    • Attorney General units






Former government program

• CONVIVIR



Linked to

• DynCorp International

•  United Nations

•  United States

•  European Union

•  Canada






• Águilas Negras

• Los Rastrojos

• The Clan Úsuga



Former paramilitaries

• AUC

• AAA



Linked to

• Spearhead Ltd

• Colombian drug cartels

• CONVIVIR

• Some Colombian
military personnel

• Some politicians




References





  1. ^ ab El Tiempo: Catorce guerrilleros del Erp en el Tolima entregaron las armas para reintegrarse a la vida civil eltiempo.com Accessed 15 September 2007.


  2. ^ El Tiempo: Guerrilla del Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (Erp) quedó desintegrada, dijo Ministo de Defensa eltiempo.com Accessed 15 September 2007.




External links


  • Terrorism knowledge base: ERP









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