Omar Torrijos Commando for Latin American Dignity

Omar Torrijos Anti-Intervention Command group

Since the firebomb attack in 1990, the Omar Torrijos Commando have not released further statements or claims.  Moreover, because its mission - to fight the American invasion of Panama - is no longer relevant, it is highly unlikely that the group is still active.  It is reasonable to believe that the group has been disbanded, as its main sticking point  --  the departure of U.S. Marines from Panama  --  has taken place.

Donations from Cuban exiles; drug trafficking

Omega-7 was a violently anti-Castro Cuban group active from 1974 to 1983.   The name Omega-7 comes from the group of seven revolutionaries who launched the group.  Membership never rose above 20, but the group was financially supported by the Cuban exile community in Miami, New York and New Jersey.  Their short-term goal was to harass the Castro regime, and their long-term goal was to raise and train an army of Cuban exiles to forcibly oust Castro.  Omega-7 committed 18 major terrorist attacks, including the assassination of a Cuban diplomat to the UN on December 9, 1980.  The group's members had combat training and experience (some participated in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion), and their attacks were well planned and flawlessly executed. Their primary targets were Cuban diplomatic and business interests and pro-Castro Cubans within the United States.

During the early 1980s, the Cuban exile community lost faith in efforts to overthrow Castro.  Omega-7 turned to drug trafficking to raise funds.  In 1982, six key Omega-7 leaders were arrested.  The following year saw the arrest of Eduardo Arocena, the group's founder and leader.  Arocena's arrest, and the revelation during his trial that he had been working as an FBI informant, effectively destroyed Omega-7.

The OPR-33 was an anarchist terrorist group that operated briefly during the 1970s.  Despite the relatively small number of attacks and kidnappings it carried out, the group was high on the radar screen of both American and Uruguayan security forces during the period of Operation Condor, in which many operations were carried out against left-leaning groups in Latin America. The OPR-33 is believed by some to have been the clandestine armed wing of the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation.