Word: guevaras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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INFLUENCED by Fidel Castro's successful revolution, Che Guevara went to Bolivia and tried to launch a similar movement from the sparsely populated hinterlands. Too late, Che discovered that the country's peasants were more likely to betray than to befriend guerrilla fighters. Unable to count on aid from the people he was hoping to convert, Che was trapped and later executed by Bolivian soldiers...
...lesson was not lost on a strapping, green-eyed Brazilian mulatto named Carlos Marighella. A longtime Communist and former member of Brazil's congress, Marighella had no quarrel with Guevara's goal of overthrowing the established order-just with his tactics. Marighella believed that the proper approach was to terrorize Latin America's crowded and vulnerable urban areas. It is easier, he reasoned, to fade into a teeming city than to elude an army patrol in a rural district where the peasants distrust all strangers. Marighella put his ideas into a 55-page work of revolution, Minimanual...
Though Marighella, like Guevara, was eventually hunted down and killed, his book has been widely circulated among city-dwelling terrorists in many parts of the world. Justly worried about its pernicious influence, authorities have banned it in much of Latin America. In France, it was published in July and quickly outlawed. In the U.S., the Minimanual has been making the rounds of radical groups in mimeographed form and in extensive excerpts in underground newspapers...
...Mainly because they're allowed to.... I have my own idea of what's behind this. I think these things are planned, organized and trained under people who could well have had their training under Communism or under the Che Guevara-type groups in Cuba...
...authority of the 1968 Gun Control Act, which gives the Treasury's Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division responsibility for the registration of explosives. Librarians in several cities were asked to show the cards for various books on explosives as well as books on guerrilla warfare or by Che Guevara. When librarians refused to divulge the names of borrowers of books, many agents reportedly threatened to subpoena the files. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Eugene Rossides, appearing before the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations which throughout the summer was conducting hearings on bombings and other terroristic acts, denied that...