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immediate prospects for armed struggle.” So, in
the fashion of George Orwell, Debray wrote what
he didn’t mean and his manual on revolution is
not a manual after all.
SETBACKS CAUSE PAUSE IN AID
The de-emphasis of Debray’s theories means
that Havana has become more flexible in its ideas
on how the armed struggle should be applied and
not that the importance of the basic doctrine has
dwindled. The de-emphasis happens to come at
the same time that Havana has decided to with-
hold support from lackluster guerrilla groups and
when a series of disasters involving pro-Castro
revolutionaries has caused the Cubans to slacken
the flow of support until the situations of various
leaderless groups clarify. These disasters include:
the jailing of Nicaraguan FSLN chief Carlos
Fonseca Amador in Costa Rica last September for
bank robbery; the killing of Carlos Marighella—a
most promising guerrilla prospect—by Sao Paulo
police last November; the death in prison last
November of the pro-Castro secretary general of
Panama’s Revolutionary Unity Movement, Floyd
Britton; the death last September of Guido “lnti”
Perero Leigue, the survivor of the Guevara de-
bacle who succeeded in regrouping Che’s National
Liberation Army (ELN) in Bolivia; and the killing
of Gerald Brisson and many other leaders of the
Cuban-supported Unified Party of Haitian Com-
munists.
TYPES OF ASSISTANCE
Assistance to rebel groups continued even
during the period of policy reassessment. Several
of Marighella’s followers had been trained in
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Although the three Cubans who survived
Guevara’s defeat in 1967 eventually went back to
Havana, and the Cubans serving with guerrillas in
Venezuela had returned home by early 1969,
Havana is apparently still willing to send Cubans
to Latin America for special operations under
certain circumstances.
Cuba,
Evidence of Cuban support in the form of
arms or money is extremely difficult to produce,
particularly in view of Havana’s exhortation to
guerrilla groups to demonstrate their independ-
ence by robbing banks or other businesses and by
buying or stealing arms locally. Marighella found
this to be a successful tactic and claimed that he
had never received arms or financial aid from the
Cubans.
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CUBANS IN AFRICA (W1)
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Cuban support of subversion is not confined
to Latin America. Although Havana’s involvement
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