Word: guerrillas
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While they were close friends and joint participants in the recent guerrilla uprising in Bolivia, French Marxist Jules Régis Debray and Castroite Guerrilla Che Guevara unwittingly betrayed each other. The betrayal cost Che his life last month. Last week Debray paid with his freedom. After a 53-day trial in the steaming Bolivian oil town of Camiri, a military court found the dashing young (27) French intellectual guilty of murder, theft and rebellion. It sentenced him to 30 years in prison...
...confidant of Fidel Castro and the author of a new handbook on guerrilla warfare (Revolution in the Revolution?), Debray was captured last April as he walked out of an abandoned guerrilla camp in the Andean foothills. With him were Argentine Painter Giro Roberto Bustos, who stood trial with Debray, and British Free lance Photographer George Roth, who was later released. At first, Debray claimed that he was a journalist on assignment for a Mexican magazine and backed up his claim by describing how he had interviewed Che Guevara in the bush. That gave the Bolivian government its first real evidence...
...also captured Che's diaries and decoded messages, which clearly showed that Debray (whose guerrilla code name was "Danton") was no mere journalist...
What the political, economic, and military power of the United States will not be able to handle, he maintains, is a series of coordinated guerrilla insurrections in many countries at the same time. The rhetoric of "solidarity" thus takes on a profound practical significance...
Should this occur, the United States would find itself facing guerrilla problems spreading out from the original focal point in Bolivia, and would be forced to send special forces adviors to aid these governments in suppressing the rebellions--as it now has done in Bolivia...