Guardia Civil (disambiguation)

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Guardia Civil ("Civil Guard" in Spanish) is the name of several gendarmeries, modelled on the Spanish Guardia Civil:

• Guardia Civil (Colombia), created in 1902 (abolished)
• Guardia Civil (El Salvador), created in 1867, which then gave way to the Guardia Nacional in 1912.
• Guardia Civil (Honduras), a militarized police commanded directly by president Ramon Villeda Morales rather than the chief of the armed forces created in 1957 (abolished).
• Guardia Civil (Peru), formerly known as Benemérita Guardia Civil or BGC
• Guardia Civil (Panama) (abolished)
• Guardia Civil (Philippines), a local gendarmerie organized under the auspices of the Spanish colonial authorities with a contingent of local soldiers that died off with the Spanish-American war in 1898, now being reestablished in the city of Ozamiz [1]. In the Intramuros district of Manila, security forces are dressed in guardia civil uniforms [2].
• Gwardya Sibil (Philippine resistance network), a civilian underground network operating during the years 1936 to 1939 to gather intelligence on the activities of the Japanese invaders[3].