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series of bank raids and hit and run battles with police in Rio . On May 1,
1969, the radio station in Sao Bernado was seized by ALN commandos .
Cuba had a significant influence on Latin American revolutionaries .
In
the early 60's, Cuba's Official foreign policy was support for guerrilla
warfare in Latin America . As Cuba began to de-emphasize guerrilla warfare
in Latin America and began to concentrate on domestic_ economic development,
Latin
American revolutionaries began to shift to urban guerrilla tactics
in order to rely on their own regional resources . Urban guerrilla warfare
continuously developed with greater intensity in Latin America in the early
70's . 17
Parallel
to the Latin American areas, the black movement in the United
States having its
own laws of development, began to develop towards armed
struggle . In the late 1950's, Robert F . Williams, former president of the
Monroe, North Carolina branch of the NAACP, organized an armed defense
guard in the black community to fight racist attacks by KKK against the
black community in Monroe, North Carolina .
Williams advocacy of "Meet Violence
with Violence," was publicly denounced by Dr .
Martin Luther King,
SNCC, CORE and the National Leadership of NAACP . As the black movement for
civil rights gained mass momentum in the early 1960's, vigorous debate took
place inside the movement over using non-violence or violence as a tactic .
Williams, failing to receive support from the traditional Negro Leadership
(i .e . NAACP, CORE, SNCC, SCLC, Urban League), moved further left, seeking
support from the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), Workers World Party, and a
section of the Communist Party . His alliance with the left frightened many
17 Joao Quartin, Dictatorship and Armed Struggle in Brazil (New York :
Monthly Review Press, 1971) .