Cinchoneros Popular Liberation Movement -- Supported Cause
Morazanist Patriotic Front (FPM) -- Supported Cause

Little is known about the Revolutionary United Front Movement (RUFM). The group claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a bus in Comayagua, Honduras on February 18th, 1989. The bomb injured three passengers and two passers-by. The bus was carrying U.S. soldiers from a training exercise to their base at Palmerola. RUFM did not claim any other incidents. <P><br /><br />A number of attacks against U.S. service personnel occurred in Honduras in the late 1980s. At the time, the U.S. was maintaining an expanded military presence in the country to support the Nicaraguan Contra rebels that were there. The American presence sparked general ill-will and a number of small-scale terrorist attacks from left-wing groups. In fact, an American convoy had been attacked by members of the <a href="?id=4132">Morazanist Patriotic Front (FPM)</a> less than three weeks before RUFM claimed their attack. <P><br /><br />FPM and the <a href="?id=3987">Cinchoneros Popular Liberation Movement</a> were the most active groups engaged in this kind of terrorism. Given the choice of target, it seems that RUFM fits into the pattern of small-scale anti-American terrorism coming from the Honduran left at the time. It is possible that the RUFM could have been a front for another group, perhaps FPM, but FPM is not known for using aliases. More likely, RUFM was probably a small group of anti-Americans (or even a single individual) that committed one attack, not a committed terrorist group. <P><br />

In February 1990, the Sandinista government of Nicaragua that was at war with the Contras lost power in a national election. The Contras returned to Nicaragua shortly thereafter. Anti-American terrorism in Honduras dropped precipitously -- and disappeared entirely within a few years. The RUFM is not known to be responsible for any other incidents, though its members may have joined other groups. <P>

The Revolutionary Violence Group (RVG) has been involved in two attacks, both of which took place on April 17, 2001.  That day the RVG torched cars belonging to the Thai and Israeli embassies.  The group said the attack was in support of people who had been illegally imprisoned in Turkey, although it did not specify whom.  The Turkish government, in an attempt to silence the Kurdish independence movement, has imprisoned more journalists than any other nation in the world.  The RVG may have been referring to these imprisoned journalists.  It would not be surprising if the RVG felt solidarity with Kurdish journalists, since many Greeks feel strong sympathy for the Kurds and deeply resent the Turkish government, which is involved in a dispute with the Greek government over the island of Cyprus.  The possibility that the RVG's attack was intended as a show of support for the Kurds, combined with their choice of two international embassies as a target, indicates that they are probably a strongly nationalist group.  Their ideology, however, cannot be known for sure, because the group has been involved in so few attacks, and offered little explanation of their motive for those attacks.