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When Bolivian troops seized and killed Ernesto ("Che") Guevara last October, they got an unexpected dividend...
...ranging from Maoists to hippies, from middle-aged suburbanites in SANE to adolescent hotspurs in the Students for a Democratic Society have stormed Pentagon and draft board, marched and picketed and advertised. Already infected with malefic characters whose political education ended with 19th century nihilism as updated by Che Guevara, the peace movement has too often degenerated into caterwaul and caricature and, even worse, noncommunication. McCarthy's candidacy will at last give legitimate dissenters a civilized political voice...
...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 that the elusive Che was actually leading the guerrilla movement, and the army immediately stepped up its anti-guerrilla offensive to try to get him. Eventually, it stamped out most of the 50-member band and captured...
Evidence from the diaries presented during the trial indicated that Debray was actually a courier between Guevara ("Ramon") and Fidel Castro ("Leche"), who was supplying money, arms, training and medicines to the revolutionaries. "The Frenchman wants to join us," Che wrote in his diary March 21. "I asked him to go organize a network of support in France, where he would return after passing through Havana. He wants to marry his girl and have a son." Then on March 25: "Long oral report on the situation to the Frenchman. We decided to call the movement the National Liberation Front...
After a month in the high jungle wilderness, Debray became anxious to return to France and get on with his task. "The Frenchman," Guevara wrote, "dwells too vehemently on the usefulness of his foreign mission." In early April, Guevara gave the impatient Debray three options: "First, continue with us. Second, get out alone. Third, go to [the town of] Gutierrez," and make his way back to La Paz. Debray chose the third alternative, and toward mid-April he left the camp with Bustos and Roth-only to be captured a few hours later...