Word: debrayism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Debray, who had been with the guerrillas for several weeks, claimed that he was on an assignment for a Mexican magazine. He had been in Bolivia twice before on lecture tours, was well known as a confidant of Fidel Castro and the author of a new handbook on guerrilla warfare, Revolution in the Revolution...
...Bolivian government decided to throw the book, figuratively and literally, at Debray...
...Marx. Imprisoned in the flyspecked oil town of Camiri, Debray was charged with murder, arson, armed insurrection, conspiracy against the state and illegal entry into Bolivia. He was held for trial by a military tribunal rather than a civilian criminal court. His arrest brought immediate protests from the French Ambassador, screams from the French press, and a personal appeal from De Gaulle. The Human Rights Commissions of France, Italy and Belgium dispatched observers to plead his case. His father, who is a lawyer, his mother, who is a Paris city councilwoman, and his childhood nurse all flew to the Bolivian...
...they have accomplished little. Papa Debray, muttering comparisons to "the trial of Joan of Arc" and "the Dreyfus case," has only succeeded in firing his son's Bolivian lawyer. He has urged Regis to conduct his own defense-which Papa sees as "a dialogue between the philosopher and the sword." Mama Debray, meantime, caused a near riot by defending those nice guerrillas to an audience that included the survivors of some of the guerrillas' victims. She also threw her son a dialectical screwball by revealing that "it was very difficult for me to understand his book." Said...
Dragging Toward 30. The Bolivian government and most of the press obviously believe Debray is guilty-if not of actual murder, at least of training and inflaming a guerrilla movement that seems to be spreading with alarming speed. Since the beginning of the year, when the terrorists first appeared, more than 40 persons have been killed in ambushes and raids; the army has declared a 1,300-sq,-mi. area in eastern Bolivia a "war zone." Holding Debray responsible, his military jailers last month went so far as to trot him be fore a press conference dressed in the striped...