Rebel Armed Forces

Rebel Armed Forces

The Rebel Armed Forces (Spanish: "Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes", FAR) was a 1960s Guatemalan guerilla organization.

FAR is most significantly known for having killed the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala, John Gordon Mein, in 1968. Also killed that year were two U.S. military advisors, colonel John Webber and Ernest Munro, although they might been killed at the command of PGT leader Leonardo Castillo Johnson.

In 1970, the group briefly kidnapped Guatemala's foreign minister Alberto Fuentes Mohr, but freed him in exchange for the release of a student leader. Karl von Spreti, German ambassador to Guatemala, was kidnapped and murdered by the FAR as well in that year. Further actions that year included the kidnapping of U.S. labour attaché Sean Holly, he was freed for the release of FAR prisoners.

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