ABSTRACT
As from 1961, the first rural guerrilla focos began to be created in Venezuela, where urban guerrillas groups, such as the Unidades Tacticas de Combate, commenced operations. Influenced by the impact of the Cuban revolution and regardless of their local reality or traditions, militants in different countries had embarked on an adventure guided by an imported guerrilla model that they first put into practice, before theorizing it, and which adapted neither to their circumstances nor to their political needs. In Paraguay, the FULNA attempted to deploy armed guerrilla focos in 1962, as with the opponents of the Dominican regime in 1963. In Venezuela during that same period, different focos were created, the urban struggle was developed and there were even a number of attempted military coups. In 1963, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic would also follow suit, while new actors appeared or new plans were drawn up in the aforementioned countries.
