Word: debrayism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These are the years of experimentation for Latin American revolutionaries. The two main guerrilla theories now being tested are both essentially of Cuban origin: the first is the theory of roving bands rather than guerrilla base areas, as propounded by Regis Debray in his book Revolution in the Revolution? The second is the theory of the continental revolution as implied in the message of Che Guevara to the Organization of the Solidarity of the people of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAAL...
...Regis Debray, the French intellectual who entered Bolivia under ambiguous circumstances (he says he was a journalist, but the Bolivian government is trying him for "treason, sedition, murder and other crimes") argues that the guerrilla bands form their own doctrine as they roam the countryside engaging the necessary loyalty of the peasantry as well as engaging government troops...
...Debray's points is that U.S. military technology has reached such a high level of sophistication that permanent, fixed guerrilla base areas, such as the Communist Chinese develepode in their struggle, are now veloped in their struggle, are now inevitable...
...breeze whistling down from the Andes. "Guevara's death," said Rio's Jornal do Brasil, "is a dramatic warning to the planners of systematic subversion among us." In Camiri, where he is on trial as a member of Che's guerrilla band. French Marxist Regis Debray wept at the news of Che's death. "I would like to be at his side," he said, "and die with...
From his cell, Debray denies all charges of active involvement, although he admits that as "an intellectual revolutionary" and a "neo-Marxist" he is "morally committed to the guerrilla cause." His trial, long delayed while the military gathered evidence, is now scheduled to begin early in September. It may drag on throughout the fall, but Debray says he already knows what the outcome will be: "I believe they will give me the maximum-30 years...