![]() ![]() Guevara's aim was to export the revolution by instructing local anti- Mobutu Simba fighters in Marxist ideology and foco theory strategies of guerrilla warfare. ![]() Only five guerrillas managed to survive, including Harry Villegas, and fled to Chile.Ĭhe Guevara at his basecamp holding a local African infant and standing next to a fellow Afro-Cuban soldier in the Congo during the Congo Crisis, 1965.Ĭhe Guevara was committed to ending American imperialism, and he decided to travel to the Congo during its civil war to back the anti-capitalist guerrilla groups. ![]() ![]() The guerrillas defeated several Bolivian patrols before they were beaten and Guevara was captured and executed. The guerrillas intended to work as a foco, a point of armed resistance to be used as a first step to overthrow the Bolivian government and create a socialist state. The group established its base camp on a farm across the Ñancahuazú river, a seasonal tributary of the Rio Grande, 250 kilometers southwest of the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. The Ñancahuazú Guerrilla or Ejército de Liberación Nacional de Bolivia ( National Liberation Army of Bolivia ELN) was a group of mainly Bolivian and Cuban guerrillas led by the guerrilla leader Che Guevara which was active in the Cordillera Province of Bolivia from 1966 to 1967. ![]()
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