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I fear a small country doctor

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I tried to make them understand that the real issue was not the liberation of any given state, but a common war against the common master, who was one and the same in Mozambique and in Malawi, in Rhodesia and in South Africa, in the Congo and in Angola, but not one of them agreed

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Fun story. After the Cuban Revolution, Che Guevara ended up in the Congo with Cuban and Afro-Cuban soldiers. He was there to organize rebel movements during the Congo Crisis.

It wasn’t great. He spent months trying to train soldiers within the Simba rebellion.

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He said there was no leadership, lack of support from locals, and desertions. He left in under a year and called it one of his worst failures.

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Prince Johnson. In 1990 his rebel group captured President Samuel Doe in Monrovia during the First Liberian Civil War. Parts of Doe’s interrogation are on YouTube. Not fun to watch. Johnson was slugging beers while it all happened. They cut off Doe’s ear before they killed him.

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A $549 Balenciaga World Food Programme side pouch on eBay. Luxury branding meets global aid. A STYLISH collaboration turning humanitarian signaling into a wearable accessory.

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River attacks and hit-and-run tactics the government couldn’t keep up with.

Eventually peace talks came. There’s too much to unpack here, but in the end Brunswijk became a political force in the country as the VP.

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Ronnie Brunswijk was former rebel, footballer and drug trafficker. He was also the Vice President of Suriname.

In 1985, Brunswijk, a bodyguard of President Dési Bouterse, went into the jungle and setup an army called the JUNGLE COMMANDO. Great name.

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Brunswijk and Bouterse had issues, and coupled with ethnic problems in the interior, the Surinamese Civil War began. He led the rebels in the war. They were descendants of Africans that escaped the slave plantations and went inland. The strategy was true guerrilla.