Cha's Concept of Focoismo

Cha saw the expansion of the guerilla war as following a so called beehive effect, with each successive development of a guerilla base. Foko has been popularly practised as a method of more or less skipping this stage of building support and instead beginning with a small band of armed guerillas like cha had attempted in bolivia. The strategy of foco appears to stand more from chay's later practice than it does his own writings. Many groups claiming to follow merzedong's theory of protracted people's war would also fall into the same trap of not properly building the mass support base among the people before initiating their campaign. There are very few people on