Word: che
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...message seemed clear enough to the New York Times. GUEVARA CALLS U.S. DRIVE ON CUBAN TRADE A FAILURE, read the headline above a story based on a televised interview between Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, Fidel Castro's Minister of Industry, and American Broadcasting Company Reporter Lisa Howard. But the Associated Press, which was also listening, caught quite the opposite pitch. Guevara, the wire service reported to its subscribers all over the world, "concedes that the U.S. economic blockade 'has been a serious drawback' to the island's Communist regime...
...agents are busy in the backlands. Last week Pedro Marin Marulanda, a well-known Red who calls himself "Sure Shot," destroyed an army helicopter, murdered its two crewmen and kidnaped the passengers. Bandit Frederico Arango, who was killed last year, had a five-foot bookshelf of Communist bestsellers, including Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare. Pedro Brincos, also killed last year, was found with Communist documents from Cuba...
Among Fidel Castro's top lieutenants, none is more outspoken than Che Guevara, the Argentine Marxist who now serves as Cuba's Minister of Industry. Che, in fact, is so painfully frank that Castro has several times told him to soften his speeches. But Che keeps on talking. "We don't make little white ponies here," he says. "We've got little white elephants in Cuba." On Havana TV last week, in a remarkable confession of economic failure, Che paraded the elephants in full view...
There was last year's 3,800,000-ton sugar-cane crop-the lowest in modern Cuban history. The ministry's industrial investment plan for last year, said Che, was only 62% fulfilled, and for this year has been cut to 75% of the 1963 schedule. Raw-material imports reached only 70% of their scheduled level; because of this, Cuban industrial production was off 16%. Moreover, said Che, "we are undergoing serious tension in a number of factories because equipment is rapidly going to pieces." The only sources for parts are "cannibal" shops, which strip spares from worn...
...there seems to be a strong question, even in Che's mind, of just how much better things can get. Occasionally, the Argentine seems almost contemptuous of his adopted people. "Cubans," he has said time and again, "could not even make Coca-Cola...