Word: rebel
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...year civil war may have ended in 1992, but the country's villages, farming land and transport system remain covered by thousands of minefields. Some were planted decades ago by the Portuguese colonial army, others, later, by the forces of the Frelimo government and their South African-backed rebel opponents. The wars may be over, but their ordnance continues to kill and maim Mozambicans and prevent them from farming their land...
...Naxalite zone in the state of Chhattisgarh shows just how much control the Maoists have in India's neglected heartland. After weeks of negotiating, I received word from a senior commander there that cadres from the area would escort a photographer and me into the field to meet a rebel unit. After an early morning, two-hour motorbike ride along dirt roads south of the town of Dantewada, across rivers where women beat their clothes against rocks and through villages full of thatched and terracotta-roofed huts, scrawny chickens and children with distended bellies (a classic sign of malnutrition...
...began learning Maoism at eight, he said. Two of his five siblings are also Maoist fighters. They had a good childhood, helping their father farm rice and hunt in the forests. There was no school in his village and so he and his siblings attended classes given by rebel soldiers who had moved into the area. What they taught made perfect sense to him. "For thousands of years we have been here but we don't have rights and the government does nothing for us: no health, no education, no services. They don't come here," Deva said...
...future looks cloudy. With a director and star who are both Oscar winners, it was the most eagerly anticipated film in the competition. But as a 4-1/2-hour, two-part recounting of Guevara's rebel campaigns in the Cuban and Bolivian jungles, it was also the most dreaded. Neither prediction was quite accurate. The movie doesn't enthrall, nor does it outrage. It simply disappoints, at great length. Except for one zesty confrontation at the United Nations, the film is doggedly antidramatic. At a reported $60 million budget, Che is too expensive to be relegated to art houses...
...Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) since it was formed in 1964, Pedro Antonio Marin was known to his comrades-in-arms by his nom de guerre, Manuel Marulanda--or by the nickname Tirofijo, "Sureshot," which he earned for his marksmanship. The son of a peasant farmer, and a rebel fighter since his teens, Marulanda lived much of his life in Colombia's mountains and jungles. There, despite having only a sixth-grade education, he directed FARC's antigovernment operations, kidnapping and, later, drug trafficking. He was believed...