In May of 2002, the United People's Democratic Solidarity began peace negotiations with Indian government.  A truce held for several months, but eventually the peace talks instigated a split within UPDS.  Two factions emerged, with one group committed to peace talks while a second faction renewed its terrorist attacks.  <P> It is believed that the anti-negotiation faction renamed itself the Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Resistance Force (KNPR) in May 2004.  Peace negotiations continue with the faction still calling itself the United People's Democratic Solidarity; but in December 2004, the pro-talks UPDS threatened to return to terrorist attacks if the negotiation process does not progress at a quicker rate.

Lautaro Youth Movement -- Splinter Group

The United Popular Action Movement (Movimiento de Acci&oacute;n Popular Unitaria - MAPU), which had earlier broken off from the Christian Democratic Party, was a Chilean leftist political party of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1970, a large coalition of leftist parties, the MAPU included, formed under the name Unidad Popular (UP) and their candidate, Salvador Allende.  Allende was elected president but soon overthrown by a military coup, leading to widespread resentment on the left.

Sources claim that the MAPU was only a political organization and that terrorist attacks claimed under its name were the work of one of the two principal groups dedicated to armed struggle that broke off from it.  These two include the Movimiento de Acci&oacute;n Popular Unitaria - Lautaro (MAPU-L) and the Lautaro Youth Movement (Movimiento Juvenil Lautaro - MJL).  Regardless of the exact nature of the relationships between these groups, the MAPU is no longer a significant factor in Chilean politics and its splinter organizations do not present an armed threat to the Chilean government.

United Popular Liberation Army of America

United Popular Liberation Army of America was a Chiapas-based terrorist group that operated in the 1960s and 1970s.  The group kidnapped Sara Davis, an American real estate dealer's wife, and demanded a ransom of nearly $1 million in food and land for the poor.  The group  focused on the perceived injustices faced by indigenous Indians and other minority groups in the region.