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The International’s English-language periodicals: World Outlook, Inprecor and their companions, 1958–1994

Brazilian CP Condemns Che Guevara as "An Adventurer"

World Outlook Vol. 6, No. 2, 19 January 1968 · p 42 · 119 words

Cuba Latin America

CONDEMNS CHE GUEVARA AS "AN ADVENTURER"

"Revolutionary illusions" of leaders like Che Guevara were condemned by the Brazilian Communist party in a recent statement. Along with a blast against the armed-struggle line of the OLAS conference, the resolution of the December 1967 congress of the pro-Moscow Brazilian CP implicitly described the Cuban revolutionary hero as "an adventurer blinded by his own illusions." It accused such "zealots" of seeking to "revive in the new guise of guerrilla warfare a conception

of revolution based on insurrectionary

hotbeds stirred up by adventurers

totally isolated from the mass movement."

In this lengthy statement, which

appeared in the conservative Rio de Jan-

eiro paper Jornal do Brasil despite the

military censorship in Brazil, the

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