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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...
...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...
...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...
...most of them genuine technical advisers. The Chinese, once very much in evidence, are scarcely seen any more. They have almost nothing to sell and very little to say. The one place where their influence was still strong until recently was in Castro's overseas operations, where, at Che Guevara's inspiration, the whole tone was a blatant call for immediate bloody revolt. Castro is still permitted to support his "wars of national liberation," but Moscow insists on knowing all about such operations and wants to be sure that they are carried on without leaving such obvious traces...