Word: marighella
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Along with the dos are some don'ts. Under the heading, "Seven Sins of the Urban Guerrilla," Marighella lists "inexperience, boasting, vanity, exaggeration of his strength, lack of patience, anger and a failure to plan properly...
...reduce the chances of betrayal, he recommended the formation of "firing groups" consisting of no more than four or five persons. "No firing group can remain inactive waiting for orders from above," writes Marighella. "Its obligation is to act." Who is eligible for Marighella's firing groups? Just about everybody, including students, since they are "politically crude and coarse and show a special talent for revolutionary violence," and women, for their "unmatched fighting spirit and tenacity...
...Marighella did not live long enough to see many of his ideas put into practice. Last year, after his followers kidnaped U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick, Brazilian police set up an elaborate ambush for Marighella. Two Dominican priests who had harbored Marighella on numerous occasions were arrested and forced to arrange a meeting with him. When Marighella's trusted bodyguard, Gaúcho, appeared to case the rendezvous site, he saw two couples necking in a Chevrolet, laborers languidly unloading materials at a construction site, bricklayers working on an unfinished building across the street. Gaúcho gave...
...reached for their guns. All were police. The fusillade lasted a full five minutes. A dentist unwittingly drove down the street and was fatally struck by two bullets. A policewoman who had been "necking" in the Chevrolet was mortally wounded. Police bullets killed both of them, for before Marighella could whip his gun out of his briefcase, he was riddled with five slugs. Two days later, Marighella was buried in pauper's grave No. 1106 in Sāo Paulo's Vila Formosa cemetery...
...reason the new terror often appears to be epidemic is that the tactics are so similar. The guerrillas all study the same texts?by Mao or Che or Carlos Marighella (see box, page 20). Instant communications, moreover, guarantee a sort of global cross-pollination of radicalism. Harvard Professor of Government Seymour Martin Lipset tells of the time he "asked a revolutionary in South America whether he kept in touch with developments in the U.S. He replied, 'We watch television. We saw everything at Berkeley...