In July 2008, Cuban leader Fidel Castro admitted that he supported the guerrilla forces in South America: ""The only place where we didn't attempt to promote a revolution was in Mexico. Everywhere else, without exception, we tried"". Politician Gustavo Breide Obeid, who fought as an army captain against ERP guerrillas in Tucumán Province, claimed in 2007 that mercenaries from Jordan, Nicaragua and Angola served in the 'Ramón Rosa Jimenez' Mountain Company. By December 1974, the guerrillas numbered about 100 fighters, with a 400-person support network from the Montoneros.