The Bolivia Reader: History, Culture, Politics
The Call to Armed Struggle
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Published:July 2018
Anonymous, Sinclair Thomson, 2018. "The Call to Armed Struggle", The Bolivia Reader: History, Culture, Politics, Sinclair Thomson, Rossana Barragán, Xavier Albó, Seemin Qayum, Mark Goodale
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Che Guevara’s sober, detailed diary of the Bolivian guerrilla campaign is well known. Virtually unknown is another document delineating the political program of his movement. The authorship is somewhat unclear: the text is unsigned and written in the name of a still nameless group. It was drafted before military actions were launched in late March 1967, and before the group had taken the name of the Army of National Liberation (eln). Its content was quite likely shaped by discussions among Che and his other comrades, Bolivian and foreign. General Jaime Niño de Guzmán, the pilot of the helicopter...
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