There were two armies with the acronym MILPAS in Nicaragua. The first, Milicias Populares Anti-Somocistas, fought alongside the Sandinista National Liberation Front against the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The second, Milicias Populares Anti-Sandinistas, was one of the earliest rebel groups that would form the contra movement.[1]
^Baltodano, Mónica (2010). Memories of the Sandinista struggle. Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung publishers, footnote 4.
In agriculture, a milpa is a field for growing food crops and a crop-growing system used throughout Mesoamerica, especially in the Yucatán peninsula,...
rebellion. This MILPAS assimilated into the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN). By 1985, most of the FDN's regional commands were headed by MILPAS veterans....
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to begin at U.S. Route 101's interchange with Milpas Street. From there, SR 144 headed northwest on Milpas, a conventional 4-lane thoroughfare. In less...
rifle "The Little-Known Tale Of "Daisy Mae" - The Johnson Auto-Carbine". Milpas. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2016...
business and professional classes. The new FDN also began assimilating the MILPAS movement, bands led by disenchanted former MAP-ML guerrillas. The FDN military...
de Guasave), also known as Aeropuerto Nacional Campo Cuatro Milpas (Campo Cuatro Milpas National Airport) or Aeródromo Camagüey (Camagüey Aerodrome)...
Magdalena Milpas Altas (Spanish pronunciation: [maɣðaˈlena ˈmilpas ˈaltas]) is a town and municipality in the Guatemalan department of Sacatepéquez. As...
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military men and police officers. "Friedrich Langenhan Semi-Auto Pistol". milpas.cc. Archived from the original on 4 February 2016. Retrieved 3 September...
Day of the Dead Día de Muertos altar commemorating a deceased man in Milpa Alta, Mexico City Observed by Mexico, and regions with large Mexican populations...
Sphenarium purpurascens (Spanish: Chapulín de milpa and Portuguese: Gafanhoto-do-milho, i.e., corn-field grasshopper), is a grasshopper species in the...
opposition group of Nicaraguan exiles in Miami. Another example are the MILPAS (Milicias Populares Anti-Sandinistas), peasant militias led by disillusioned...
cultures focused on the cultivating of crops on a small scale, such as the milpa or maize field, around their dwellings or in specialized plots which were...
National Guard Contras (1979–1990) FDN UDN Fifteenth of September Legion ARDE MILPAS (after 1979) KISAN/YATAMA RN Supported by: United States Costa Rica (1982–1986)...
Executive Short film 2002 Moctezuma's Revenge Second assistant No No 2002 La Milpa Yes Yes Yes Short film 2004 Family Portrait Yes Yes Yes Documentary short...
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