Guerillas in Latin America

Abstract

Among the questions which both Basil Davidson's Liberation of Guink and Victor Kiernan's article on peasant revolution raise, is the vexed one of Latin American guerilla warfare in the 1960s and the theories associated with the names of Regis Debray and Che Guevara. The subject is obscure and confused, and a few notes on it may be useful. They are formulated in a rather apodictic manner for the sake of brevity. One might call them : Twelve common errors about guerilla warfare in Latin--or more exactly South America, for I know too little about the central American scene to discuss it profitably.