Word: debrayism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BOLIVIA Jail withAll the Comfort For a man sentenced to 30 years in prison, French Intellectual Régis Debray enjoys many of the comforts of home. At the officers' club in the south ern Bolivian town of Camiri, where he has been locked up for helping Che Guevara's guerrillas in their abortive attempt to topple the Bolivian government, Debray's jailers generously allow him to have a radio, his books, paper and pencils. Food is sent in from a restaurant. Last week the Bolivian army threw in the ultimate, if only temporary, comfort: a wife...
Diminutive, dark-eyed Elizabeth, who comes from a well-to-do Caracas family, first met Debray when he visited Venezuela in 1964 to film Castroite guerrillas in the hills for French television. Moving in the same left-wing circles in Caracas and sharing the same interest in philosophy, the two saw a lot of each other, began living together on and off in Paris and Cuba. When Réis left Cuba and went on to tie up with the guerrillas in Bolivia last year, Elizabeth stayed behind on the island, then flew to Paris after Debray's arrest...
...weeks after his conviction, Debray approached the army about getting married; the French consul in La Paz handled the negotiations. Perhaps to make up for Debray's harsh sentence, the army finally agreed to the marriage-on condition that no reporters cover the ceremony. At the wedding, the only witnesses were the French consul and Debray's mother, Janine Alexandre-Debray. The couple spent their first night under guard in a cottage in Choreti, five miles from Camiri, and the next few nights in Debray's room at the officers' club...
...caused Castro's regime to lean more and more on such spectacles as last week's cultural congress. As the congress ended, Castro came up with yet another diversion. Countering the suggestion of Bolivian President René Barrientos that Bolivia's Marxist Prisoner Régis Debray be swapped for Castro Prisoner Huber Matos (TIME, Jan. 12), Castro offered to release 100 political prisoners in return for the body of Che Guevara. He may have in mind something like Lenin's tomb...
...between Cuba and Bolivia. If the Cubans are interested, they will likely wait a while to avoid the public embarrassment of negotiating with a government that they have been trying so hard to overthrow. Whether or not Castro will part with Matos, he would certainly like to see Debray freed. A longtime Castro confidant, Debray traveled frequently to Cuba and spent months interviewing the dictator for his book Revolution in the Revolution...