Word: guevaras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dirty Tricks," he worked on the operation that overthrew the Communist-supported Guatemala regime of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954. After the coup, he recalls, "Arbenz and his people were stripped naked at the airport and searched before they were allowed to leave. One of his aides was Che Guevara. If we'd let our Guatemalans start to shoot them, as they wanted, there's no telling when the shooting would have stopped. It was a close decision, and I have often wondered how effective Castro would have been with out the intelligence of that asthmatic little medical student...
...voted to take no such action, a fraction of those in attendance at a SDS meeting on April 8, 1969, decided to occupy a building the next day. Shortly before noon on April 10, they did so, ejecting the deans in University Hall, and renaming the building "Che Guevara Hall". The crowds of students who gathered outside overwhelmingly opposed the occupation: there was talk of football players and other able-bodied students coming to remove the occupiers. Then, at dawn the next day, with no advance warning to the Faculty or the students. President Pusey ordered in the police...
...four planned to escape to the wilds of Canada after the robbery and live off the loot for the rest of their lives. It was only when the scheme went awry, apparently, that Tuller thought of hijacking a plane. Since he had been reading Che Guevara and admired the Cuban Revolution, Havana seemed a logical destination. Once aboard the hijacked jet, he harangued the passengers with his political notions. "This fascist Government has got to fall!" he ranted. "These fascists have done nothing but keep the little man down. The only way you can be free is with this...
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...Solution. Unlike the revolts led by such classic guerrillas as Mexico's Emiliano Zapata and Nicaragua's Augusto Sandino in the earlier part of this century, most contemporary terrorist movements are strongly ideological. Their leaders emulate Cuba's late Che Guevara and such flamboyant Guevarists as Brazil's Carlos Marighella, who was killed by Brazilian police in 1969. No Latin American government has yet found a way to deal with its guerrillas effectively except by repression-a strategy that may control the terrorists for a time, but does nothing to solve the root cause of their...