Word: castros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aleida Guevara, dressed in black and fighting tears, listened as Fidel Castro read a servile, six-month-old farewell letter from her husband Che, once the dictator's trusted lieutenant-who may or may not be alive. The incident revealed the deep fissures in Castro's regime. See THE HEMISPHERE...
...months ago, Premier Moise Tshombe knew the war was not fully won. His troops had never dared attack the Simbas' mountain redoubt of Fizi, located high above Lake Tanganyika and reachable only by roads so narrow and precipitous that they are impassable during rainstorms. Led by Castro Cuban advisers and supplied with Red Chinese arms ferried in from Tanzania to the lake port of Baraka, the 5,500-man ragtag rebel force was roaming at will through a 200-sq.-mi. patch of the eastern Congo, cutting roads, murdering and terrorizing the population. Tshombe knew the Simbas...
...letter bore no date-only "Havana, Year of Agriculture."* It was signed by Argentine-born Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, Castro's longtime No. 2 man, who has been missing for seven months after a bitter doctrinal dispute with the dictator; Che preferred a hardline, Peking-style Communism, Castro the softer, Moscow variety (TIME cover, Oct. 8). Two weeks ago, Castro promised a document that would explain Che's absence and his status. Now before 5,000 Cubans in Havana's Chaplin Theater, Castro said that Che gave him the letter last April, asking him to read it publicly...
...thank you for your lessons and your example.' As for Che's young wife Aleida and his three children, whom he left behind, "I ask nothing for them because the state will educate them and give them enough to live on." Out front in the audience, as Castro read the letter was Aleida herself, dressed in black and verging on tears...
Where he was and what he was doing were still intriguing questions. U.S Intelligence professed to know nothing One possibility was that Che was still in Cuba, either dead, or in prison If not, the April date referred to by Castro revived the rumors of last spring that Che had been killed in the first days of the Dominican civil...