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base as the axle Rio-Sao Paulo, ‘where the giant industrial-finan- cial-economic-political-cultural-military-police complex that holds the entire decisive power of the country is located: b) to weaken the local guards or the security system of the dic- an tatorship, given the fact that we are attacking and the gorillas defending. which means catching the government in a defensive po- sition with its troops immobilized in defense of the entire complex of national maintenance, with its ever-present fears of an attack 1 on its strategic nerve centers. and without ever knowing where, i how. and when that attack will come: ¢) to attack on every side wtih many different armed groups, few f in number. each self-contained and operating separately, to disperse the government forces in their pursint of a thoroughly fragmented organization instead of offering the dictatorship the opportunity to concentrate its forces of repression on the destruc: tion of one tightly organized system operating throughout the coun- . try; . d) to give proof of its combativeness. decision. firmness, determi- : nation, and persistence in the attack on the military dictatorship in . order to permit all malcontents to follow our example and fight at with urban guerrilla tactics. Meanwhile, the government. with all . : its problems. incapable of halting guerrilla operations in the city, 4 will lose time and suffer endless attrition and will finally be forced to pull back its repressive troops in order to mount guard over the banks, industrics, armories, military barracks, prisons. public offices, radio and television staiions, North American firms. qas storage tanks, oil refineries, ships, airplancs, ports. airports, hospitals. health centers, blood banks. stores. garages, embassies. residences of outstanding members of the regime, such as ministers and gcnerals.police stauons. and official organizations. ete: ¢) to increase urban guerrilla disturbances gradually in an endless ascendancy of unforeseen actions such that the government troops cannot leave the urban area to pursue the guerrillas in the interior without running the risk of abandoning the cities and permitting rebeilion to increase on the coast as well as in the interior of the country; f) to oblige the arn-y and the police, with the commanders and their assistants. to change the relative comfort and tranquillity of their barracks and their usual rest. for a state of alarm and growing tension in the expectation of attack or in search for tracks that vanish without a trace: @) to avoid open battle and decisive combat with the government, limiting the struggle to brief and rapid” attacks with lightning results; h) to assure for the urban guerrilla a maximum freedom of ma- neuvers and of action without ever relinquishing the use of armed violence. remaining firmly oriented toward helping the beginning of rural querrlla warfare and supporting the construction of the revolutionary army for national liberation. 22 . 1 Te eee ere: lined anendeen ene :