The People's Revolutionary Militias openly champions the insurrection against the current, democratically elected Ecuadorian government.

People's Revolutionary Organization (ORP) was a socialist group which attacked numerous government targets and banking centers in Argentina in the 1990s.  The group is thought to have had close links to members of the Argentine intelligence community and was committed to instigating a civil war within the nation.  Two people suspected of leading ORP, Enrique Gorriaran Merlo and Jose Armando Alonso, were both active leftist guerillas during the 1970s.  ORP was concerned with purging the Argentine government of its corrupt leaders.<br /><p><br />ORP's highest-profile incidents involved attacks on prominent government officials.  The group shot and seriously wounded Dr. Jorges Berges, a former military doctor nicknamed "the Argentine Dr. Mengele" for his cruel torture of inmates of Argentine prisons.  The group also killed a federal police officer in 1997 in an attack on the home of President Carlos Menem's brother, Eduardo Menem.  ORP also occasionally bombed banks and extorted large companies in an attempt to gather funds.<br />

People's Revolutionary Organization is no longer active.

Popular Revolutionary Party (PRP), Zaire&#8217;s People&#8217;s Revolutionary Party

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The People's Revolutionary Party (PRP) was an anti-Mobutu movement based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (known as Zaire from 1971 to 1996). Their stated mission was the "liberation of all people of the Congo from the government of President Mobutu," and they sought to pressure the U.S. and Tanzania to force regime change in the Congo. Following the chaos that characterized the first five years of Congolese independence, Mobutu Sese Seko seized power from the first Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba, in a 1965 military coup backed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). <P><br />PFP membership was comprised of a combination of Marxist extremists, pro-Lumumba rebels disgusted with the Mobutu regime, and former witchdoctors, sorcerers, and tribesmen left over from the anti-regime Simba Uprising of June 1964. <P><br />The PRP's only attack on record was a high-profile 1975 raid of British scientist Jane Goodall's Gombe Stream Research Center in Tanzania, during which three Stanford University students and one Dutch research assistant were taken hostage. In return for the release of the hostages, PRP terrorists demanded $460,000, American-manufactured weapons, and the release of four of their leaders being held in a prison in Zaire. One hostage was released to carry the demands to Tanzanian and U.S. authorities, and later, the rest of the hostages were released in intervals, the last one in July 1975. Stanford claimed that it did not pay any ransom, but Newsweek reported that the university contributed $400,000 towards the release of the hostages when the Tanzanian government refused to negotiate with the PRP. <br /><br />