Word: marighella
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urban guerrilla follows a political goal and attacks only the government, the big capitalists and the foreign imperialists, particularly North Americans." Since the mid-1960s, when the late Brazilian revolutionary Carlos Marighella made that declaration in a manual that has since become a text for terrorists everywhere, businessmen have found themselves the targets of violence in many parts of the world, notably Latin America and some relatively prospering democracies of Western Europe. The bombings, kidnapings and assassinations have not spread-at least so far-to the U.S., but American firms are increasingly troubled by the phenomenon...
...dozen or two people with a catchy name and a talent for publicity. Their methods are crude. They are the sort of people that Karl Marx would have contemptuously dismissed as senseless anarchists. Many California radicals follow the teachings of Mao, Che Guevara, French Revolutionary Regis Debray and Carlos Marighella, the Brazilian terrorist tactician. Marighella advocates violence as a way to encourage government authorities to overreact. He theorizes that a government will inevitably impose harshly repressive measures that will "radicalize" nonviolent citizens and thus bring on the revolution...
...musical satires of the Papadopoulos regime and the American CIA, which is popularly regarded as having propped up the junta. The works of German Playwright Bertolt Brecht, many of them banned by the colonels for their Marxist themes, are also enjoying a revival. Bookstores are stocking titles like Carlos Marighella's manual The Urban Guerrilla; a large readership is virtually guaranteed for any work by or about Che Guevara...
...which made short work of the guerrillas. Another passage reports that in 1969 the agency learned of a scheme by radicals to hijack a Brazilian airliner. The CIA kept the news to itself for fear that it would expose the agency's penetration of Brazilian Guerrilla Leader Carlos Marighella's band and thus jeopardize a plan to capture him. The plane was hijacked on schedule-and Marighella was trapped on schedule...
...organizing among the poor. With the notable exception of Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Archbishop Helder Pessoa Cámara of Recife and Olinda,* opponents of the regime have been cowed or brutalized into silence. The generals have relentlessly tracked down leftists. In late 1969 they killed Guerrilla Leader Carlos Marighella, the one man who had the personal magnetism to lead an underground movement. According to apologists for the junta, torture is something that "used to happen." Unfortunately, there are plenty of victims who insist that it is still happening...