“Favorable conditions for establishing a permanent camp in guerrilla warfare are inverse to the degree of productive development of a place… because everything that is favorable to human life, communications, urban and semi-urban concentrations of large numbers of people, land easily worked by machine, all these place the guerrilla fighter in a disadvantageous situation.”

—  Ernesto Che Guevara, book Guerrilla Warfare

Source: Guerrilla Warfare (1961), Ch. I: 5. Warfare on Unfavorable Ground

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Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928–1967

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