AHC: civil war/widespread insurgency in a "first world" country after 1991

As it says in the title. I think that a possibility could be some sort of secessionist struggle, for example in the basque country.
But could there be something bigger, maybe of revolutionary nature?
If this is impossible, then have the civil war happen earlier, during the cold war.
 
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The IRA & Ireland?

Right, but I was thinking of something more than "simple" terrorist activity: a situation where the insurgents actually control parts of a country, and if I am not mistaken this wasn't the case in Ireland during the '90s, but I am no expert on that, so correct me if my assumption is mistaken.
 

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What about in Puerto Rico (technically, the USA) after 1993, if the US Congress exercises its own self-proclaimed right to unilaterally repeal the Puerto Rican Constitution and/or the Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act in order to replace them with any rules or regulations of its choice- unilaterally revoking the establishment of local self-government without the consent of the Puerto Rican people, and also withdrawing the U.S. citizenship of Puerto Rican residents of Puerto Rico. Would this trigger civil war and insurgency?
 
Difficult to do, because being a first-world country means (among other things) being politically stable.
 
Very difficult. First world nation is usually rich and politically stable, usually democracy. That kind of country doesn't go to civil war easily. It might be possible but you need long developing for this.
 
Right, but I was thinking of something more than "simple" terrorist activity: a situation where the insurgents actually control parts of a country, and if I am not mistaken this wasn't the case in Ireland during the '90s, but I am no expert on that, so correct me if my assumption is mistaken.

Parts of Armagh were under de-facto IRA control during the Troubles, although it was never officially declared unlike Free Derry in the 70s.
 
Is Colombia 'first world' enough?

Pedantically, we could go with the original meaning of first world, which gives us any West-aligned nation to play with. Many shakier options, under that criteria.
 
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