Guevarist

[guh-vahr-ist]

noun

1. a supporter of the revolutionary theories and tactics of Ernesto Guevara.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Guevarist¹

1965–70; Ernesto Guevar(a) + -ist, or < Spanish guevarista

Example Sentences

In Colombia it contributed to the destructive insurgency of the FARC, which ended only last year, and that of the ELN, an avowedly guevarist group, which declared a ceasefire last month.

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The strongly nationalist organization gradually incorporated leftists; its current ranks, according to a U.S. intelligence report, include Castroite, Guevarist, Maoist and Trotskyite revolutionaries.

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France's travails began two weeks ago as a minor exercise in the politics of protest by Maoist, Marxist and Guevarist student militants.

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The trouble began two weeks ago, when authorities abruptly closed the Nanterre College of Letters, a suburban branch of the 150,000-student University of Paris, because a small band of Maoist, Marxist, Trotskyite and Guevarist militants had thrown the campus into a turmoil with strikes and threats of gang war.

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