Bolivia: Unwitting Betrayal

While they were close friends and joint participants in the recent guerrilla uprising in Bolivia, French Marxist Jules Régis Debray and Castroite Guerrilla Che Guevara unwittingly betrayed each other. The betrayal cost Che his life last month. Last week Debray paid with his freedom. After a 53-day trial in the steaming Bolivian oil town of Camiri, a military court found the dashing young (27) French intellectual guilty of murder, theft and rebellion. It sentenced him to 30 years in prison.

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