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...features Aztec relics from the Mexico City National Museum of Anthropology, set off by a mariachi band. The Indians and Hawaiians have improvised a pacifier for impatient queues: luscious dancing girls in native costumes. For comic relief, there is the Cuban Pavilion, festooned with love portraits of Castro and Che Guevara counterpointed by hate pictures of Batista and bloated capitalistas...
...express the qualitative difference between our lives and the life of a revolutionary, Che Guevara had to use a biological metaphor, "This type of fight gives us the opportunity of becoming revolutionaries, the highest level of the human species...
...revolutionary is the highest level of the human species. Castro said that Che considered himself a soldier of the revolution without ever considering if he would survive it. That is a lesson for us. The meaning is not in the end but in the doing. Should you ask, "Will the revolution win? Do we even have a prayer for success?" I'm certain that Che would have shrugged his shoulders. The Third World revolution will probably win, with us or without us. That is not the point. Just as much of your body and your genes were selected...
...years ago, Che as talking to some American radicals, explaining to them the campaign in the Sierra Macstra. Apparently, the Americans were beginning to picture themselves in fatigues, with rifles over their shoulders and a month's growth of beard. Che stopped for a second and said, "But I really envy you. Yours is the toughest job, for you live in the heart of the beast...
From Guevara and all of the men who fought in Cuba, we can take a new breath of life. Che wanted us to take up his gun as he fell. It is hard to imagine a soul more committed, more alive than Che. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a higher level of human being...