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INFLUENCED by Fidel Castro's successful revolution, Che Guevara went to Bolivia and tried to launch a similar movement from the sparsely populated hinterlands. Too late, Che discovered that the country's peasants were more likely to betray than to befriend guerrilla fighters. Unable to count on aid from the people he was hoping to convert, Che was trapped and later executed by Bolivian soldiers...
...political structures began crumbling, Lenin's tactics were successfully grafted onto the guerrilla movements that arose in such places as China, Cuba and Viet Nam. But the theorists of these movements, including Che, his follower Régis Debray and Frantz Fanon (The Wretched of the Earth), generally overlooked the urban guerrilla and concentrated on the peasant...
...share the spirit of anarchism: its fascination with violence, its chaotic organization, its insistence on absolute freedom (an illusion that in the past has invariably led to tyranny). Often their cult is pseudo-religious, even monastic: it is consecrated to a dead or distant deity like Che Guevara or Mao Tse-tung; its communicants gather in intimate, almost confessional cells: and they observe a ritual secrecy that eventually cuts them off from society altogether. Their ideologies differ, but in general their rationale is that "the system" is incapable of real change and that the official violence of the government (police...
...Mainly because they're allowed to.... I have my own idea of what's behind this. I think these things are planned, organized and trained under people who could well have had their training under Communism or under the Che Guevara-type groups in Cuba...
...under the authority of the 1968 Gun Control Act, which gives the Treasury's Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division responsibility for the registration of explosives. Librarians in several cities were asked to show the cards for various books on explosives as well as books on guerrilla warfare or by Che Guevara. When librarians refused to divulge the names of borrowers of books, many agents reportedly threatened to subpoena the files. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Eugene Rossides, appearing before the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations which throughout the summer was conducting hearings on bombings and other terroristic acts, denied...