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...Army of Liberation," Artime announced: "I am in Cuba again after my promise last year that I would come back." By battle's end, he reportedly lay dead in the sunken radio ship. There were rumors that there might be important casualties on the other side as well. Ernesto ("Che") Guevara was reported gravely wounded in the head, the result of a suicide attempt following an argument with Castro over command of the armed forces. And the persistent absence of Castro himself from the early victory celebration gave weight to reports that he had been hurt in a bombing...
...Died. Ernesto Jaén Guardia, 65, Panamanian businessman-diplomat, who "just happened to be in Panama City" when pro-Axis strongman Arnulfo Arias was deposed on Oct. 9, 1941, was promoted by the Cabinet from Second Vice President to President of Panama and served for all of three hours; of a heart attack; in Panama City. Jaén Guardia became president at 1 p.m., bowed out at 4 p.m. the same day after changing his mind and turning the job over to Justice Minister Ricardo de la Guardia...
...organized in 1952, its training and operations (two overseas units: one in Okinawa, one in West Germany) have been largely soft-pedaled. They blossomed from the shadows last week after President Kennedy-who has been reading books on guerrilla warfare by Mao and Castro's leftist lieutenant, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara-ordered the Pentagon to step up the U.S.'s capability in unconventional warfare...
...entrance was a painting of a peasant couple watching the newborn babe in the manger. Overhead, a light bulb screwed into his forehead, beamed the face of José Marti, Cuba's national hero. And out of the East strode the three Wise Men-Fidel Castro, Economic Czar Ernesto ("Che") Guevara and Army Chief Juan Almeida. The symbolism, in a way, was appropriate. On Christmas week,* the East was where Cuba found itself tied by every device of economics, technology and culture at the dictatorship's disposal...
...Cuban Economic Czar Ernesto ("Che") Guevara; discussing the U.S. embargo of Cuba...