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Régis Debray is a French intellectual, A journalist is a person who practices journalism. Reporters are one type of journalist. They create reports as a profession for broadcast or publication in mass media such as newspapers, television, radio, magazines, documentary film, and the Internet. Reporters find the sources for their work; the reports can be either...
journalist, government official and A professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. Professors give lectures and seminars in their field of study, such as science or literature. They also do advanced research in their fields and are supposed to do community service (including advisory functions, such as for...
professor. Regis Debray studied at the Ecole Normale Superieur and became "agrégé de philosophie" in 1965. In the 1960s he was a professor of philosophy at the University of Havana (Spanish: Universidad de La Habana) was founded in 1728 and is the oldest university in Cuba and one of the first in the Americas. External links Universidad de la Habana Official web site for Havana University Categories: Stub | Cuban universities | Havana ...
University of Havana, and a friend of Che Guevara Dr. Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna ( June 14, 1928¹ – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leader. Guevara was a member of Fidel Castros 26th of July Movement, which seized power in Cuba in...
Che Guevara as a young man. He later wrote a book entitled Revolution in the Revolution?. This book critiqued the tactical and strategic doctrines then prevailing among militant socialist movements in Latin America, and acted as a handbook for Guerrilla (also called a partisan) is a term borrowed from Spanish (from guerra meaning war) used to describe small combat groups. Guerrilla warfare operates with small, mobile and flexible combat groups called cells, without a front line. Guerrilla warfare is one of the oldest forms of asymmetric warfare. Primary contributors...
guerilla warfare. When Guevara was captured in The Republic of Bolivia is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil on the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina on the south, and Chile and Peru on the west. National motto: Firme y Feliz por la Unión Official languages Spanish, Quechua, Aymara...
Bolivia (1967), Debray (also in Bolivia at the time) was imprisoned, convicted of having been part of Guevara's guerilla group and sentenced to 30 years in prison, but was released (1970) after an international campaign for his release which included Jean Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905–April 15, 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic. Early life and thought Sartre was born in Paris to parents Jean-Baptiste Sartre, a naval officer, and Anne-Marie Schweitzer, cousin of Albert Schweitzer. He was 15...
Jean-Paul Sartre and André Malraux. He sought refuge in Chile, where he wrote The Chilean Revolution (1972) after interviews with Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens1 (July 26, 1908 - September 11, 1973) was president of Chile from 1970 until 1973, when he was overthrown in a military coup détat (see Chilean coup of 1973), during which he died. Background Allende was born in 1908 in the port of Valparaíso, the...
Salvador Allende. Debray returned to France in 1973. Following the election of Président François Mitterrand, in 1981, he became an adviser of the Président on foreign affairs. Until the the mid-1990s he held a number of official posts in France. Founder of the discipline of médiologie or "mediology", which attempts to scientifically study mass media and power. Recently in the news for having come out in favor of the French ban on headscarves for female Muslim students in the public schools.
Personal website : http://www.regisdebray.com/ |