Guerrilla and terrorism. The characteristics that differentiate Guerrilla and Terrorism

question 1

(AND EITHER)

1 – “(...) the use of terror by those who already hold power within the State cannot be listed among the forms of political terrorism, because this qualifies, on the contrary, as the instrument used by certain groups to overthrow a government accused of maintaining itself through the horror".

2 – In other cases “terrorists are fighting against a State of which they are not a part and not against a government (which causes their action to be connoted as a form of war), even when in turn they do not represent another State. His action then appears as irregular; in the sense that they cannot organize an army and do not know territorial limits, since they do not come from a State”.

(Dictionary of Politics (org.) BOBBIO, N., MATTEUCCI, N. and PASQUINO, G., Brasília: Edunb, 1986).

According to both statements, it is possible to compare and distinguish the following historical events:

I. The guerrilla and national liberation movements carried out in some countries in Africa and Southeast Asia between the 1950s and 1970s are examples of the first case.

II. The attacks that took place in the 1990s, such as the embassies of Israel, in Buenos Aires, the USA, Kenya and Tanzania, and the World Trade Center in 2001, are examples of the second case.

III. The national liberation movements of the 1950s and 1970s in Africa and Southeast Asia, and the terrorism of the 1990s and 2001 were actions against an invading and oppressive enemy, and are examples of the former case.

It is correct what is stated only in:

there.

b) II

c) I and II

d) I and III

e) II and III.

question 2

We can affirm that the word “guerrilla” derives from the Spanish “guerrilla” (small war), which had its origin in the context:

a) of the wars for the Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula in the 15th century.

b) of the Spanish Civil War.

c) of the Spanish resistance to the Napoleonic invasions.

d) of the wars for the independence of the colonies of South America.

e) of the War of Independence of Cuba, in 1898.

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