Word: che
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jangling from Miami to Washington. Castro offhandedly promised to 1) let any Cuban with relatives in the U.S. depart from the Communist island free and clear after Oct. 10, and 2) make a statement "in a few days" that would clear up the mysterious seven-month disappearance of Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, 37, the Argentine-born Marxist who ranks as Cuba's top theoretician, ace guerrilla fighter and longtime No. 2 to Castro himself...
...personality," even coexistence with the U.S.-up to a point. As one U.S. Castrologist says, "Castro will never become the apostle of peaceful coexistence. Yet it does seem clear that he is subject to Soviet pressure and has no choice other than to accept it." The refugees and Che Guevara are two sources of acute embarrassment to Castro, and therefore to Moscow...
Compulsive v. Cool. If the refugees were embarrassing to Castro, the curious case of Che Guevara was doubly so. For that had to do with Cuba's independence and leadership. In the early days of the revolution, Castro and Guevara were virtually inseparable, one the compulsive man of action, the other the cool, brainy tactician. Some wags called the Argentine Guevara a "Gau-cho Marx," but they said it with a sour smile. Che was in the original rebel band in the Sierra Maestra mountains in 1956, the man who mapped Castro's guerrilla tactics against Dictator Fulgencio...
...Communist revolution in Latin America. "When people are fighting for their freedom, it would not be moral for us not to assist them. We have taught some of them to acquire military knowledge. There will be fighting in every country of Latin America." On and on it went, with Che making a special point of accusing Russia and its East European partners of being "accomplices of imperialist exploitation" by selling their machines to underdeveloped nations for a profit. Real Communists would give them away...
...Paper. Washington's Cuba watchers thought the document might have to do with a Soviet-style constitution calling for the usual circus elections some time in the next few years. According to this theory, Che might have been ordered to draft such a constitution as a kind of act of contrition. The document might also be a manifesto, with Che either penitently apologizing for his errors or bringing his doctrinal dispute with Cuba's Kremlin-Castro leadership into the open. Che is not the type to be easily weaned from belief in his violent revolutionary...