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When her asthmatic little boy Ernesto ("Che") Guevara grew up to be at 33 the Marxist mastermind of Fidel Castro's government in Havana, Celia de la Serna de Guevara was as proud as a mamma could be, particularly a Communist mamma. At home in Argentina, Celia has long been an all-wool Communist herself, but hampered by individualistic tendencies. She often ate with a pistol on the table, and, before she separated from Ernesto Sr.. sometimes used the weapon to threaten her husband, whose policies were only parlor pink. Somehow the leaders of Argentine Communism never...
Bayonets in Recife. Things are a lot livelier for Celia these days. As her son Che's Red star rises higher over Cuba, Mother Guevara has gone into quite an orbit of her own. She buzzed off to decorate a conference of leftist females in Santiago, Chile, in November 1959, returned to whip up enthusiasm for an Argentine branch of Castro's 26th of July movement. She travels to Cuba at least once a year to see her boy. Lately, Celia has capped her career by becoming a kind of Marxist Typhoid Mary, spreading violence wherever she goes...
...automatically pro-Israeli. He sent off warm and tactful letters to the chiefs of state of the United Arab Republic, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. To Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Kennedy recalled U.S. support at the time of Suez, to Lebanon's President Fuad Che-hab he mentioned the 1958 landing of U.S. Marines. To each, Kennedy promised that the U.S. was "willing to share in the labors and burdens" of resolving the Arab-Israel controversy, and in particular the problem of the Arab refugees from Palestine on "the principle of repatriation and compensation for property...
...least, Quadros' "democratic authority" has come down just as hard on the Castroites and Communists who seek to subvert Brazil. When leftist students rioted in Recife over the university's refusal to let Che Guevara's Argentine mother, Celia. deliver a Castroite harangue, Quadros sent in the Brazilian navy and marines. Fanning out into the inflamed northeast, they raided Peasant League strongholds to round up propaganda smuggled in from Castro's Cuba, and arms. In Brazil's labor movement, once heavily Communist-infiltrated. Quadros' men are working to cut the Reds...
...demand for "indemnification" rather than the "exchange" he originally proposed revolted Latin Americans, who believe strongly in human dignity. His loud threats of "revolutionary tribunals" for the prisoners if his demands were not met only increased the horror. Cooler minds, one of them most likely Moscow's supervisor Che Guevara, apparently got through to Castro, for Castro piped down after a few days. By then great damage had been done...