A influência teórica do militante espanhol Abraham Guillén em grupos de luta armada na América Latina

Abstract

The purpose of this text is to present the influence of a revolutionary theorist, who is little known in the debate about the Brazilian armed struggle. Most of the texts on this subject debate the influence of Che Guevara and Régis Debray. However, we argue here that the conception of guerrillas in Brazil came closer to the theory of the revolutionary Abrahan Guillén. In the late 1960s, he took part in various fighting strategies in Bolivia, Argentina, and Uruguay. His thesis, that the fight should also take place in the urban environment, differs from the Foco Theory. We discovered that a group of Brazilian militants exiled in Chile, at a time when the struggle in Brazil was receding, studied Guillén's work and prepared a base document to guide their return to the country, the Document of the Twelve Points. Part of these records are located in the monitoring that the Brazilian repression, through the Army Information Center (known as CIEX), made of the steps of Guillén and the flow of revolutionaries in the countries of the Southern Cone Region. The theoretical references used by revolutionary movements went beyond national borders and went well beyond the well-known Che Guevara and Régis Debray.