In Guevara's view, of all of the people he met during his campaign in Congo, only Kabila had "genuine qualities of a mass leader"; but Guevara castigated Kabila for a lack of "revolutionary seriousness".
In 1967, Kabila and his remnant of supporters moved their operation into the mountainous Fizi - Baraka area of South Kivu in the Congo, and founded the People's Revolutionary Party (PRP).