Foco
![Guevara in the Congo. His plan was to use the communist zone on the western shores of Lake Tanganyika as a training ground for the Congolese and fighters from other revolutionary communist movements.](/Images/godic/202501/13/CheInCongo19654356.jpg")
The foco theory of revolution by way of guerrilla warfare, also known as focalism (Spanish:foquismo [foˈkizmo]), was formulated by French intellectual and government official Régis Debray, whose main source of inspiration was Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara's experiences surrounding his rebel army's victory in the 1959 Cuban Revolution.