So far, the National Anti-Corruption Front has claimed responsibility for just this one incident. The size and leadership of the group are unclear. The Front's aim  --  the nationalization of natural resources  --  is nothing new in Latin America. Throughout the region's history both popular and elite-driven movements have advocated state control of energy and mining industries. In fact, Bolivia's oil and gas industry was only privatized in the mid-1990s, when foreign firms like Petrobras were allowed to enter and drill there.  <P><br /><br />Agitation for nationalization has been particularly strong in Bolivia of late. President Mesa was forced to resign in June of 2005 because of widespread protests led by groups affiliated with popular socialist Evo Morales. Protests in El Alto, a poor suburb of La Paz, nearly brought the country to a standstill before Mesa resigned. One of the most strident demands put forth in the protests was nationalization. It is unclear what role the National Anti-Corruption Front plays in the wider protest movement.  <br />

3 October Armenian Nationalism Movement, 3rd October Organization

The Third of October Group was a faction of a well-known Armenian terrorist organization, the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA).   The Armenian terrorist campaign of the 1970-1980s aimed to raise awareness at the international level regarding the situation and history of Armenians.  These terrorist entities believed that conducting a series of violent attacks against civilians would somehow convince the international community to create a separate state for Armenians.  As one justification for an Armenian state, the Armenian terrorists highlighted the Armenian genocide by Turkey in 1915. <P><br /><br />While the Armenian terrorists directed numerous attacks against Turkish citizens and facilities, they did not limit their terrorism to just Turkey and its interests.  The early 1980s was a time of fracture for ASALA, and several of the ASALA factions targeted countries aside from Turkey.  The degree of independence for ASALA's splinter groups varied.  The Third of October Group, for one, is sometimes listed as nothing more than a cover name for ASALA.  Still, in the early 1980s, Third of October conducted an extensive bombing campaign under its own name.  Third of October concentrated its attacks on two Western European countries, Switzerland and France, although it also targeted a U.S. business.  Third of October targeted France and Switzerland in retaliation for the countries' legal prosecution of Armenian terrorists.  Indeed, Switzerland and France both prosecuted and imprisoned Armenian terrorists.