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Fidel Castro's one-man brain trust, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, last week lectured 5,000 Red Chinese in Peking on how the Marxist blessings of Castro Cuba can be carried to country after country throughout the rest of Latin America. "It is," he said coldly, "through arming the people and smashing the puppet dictatorial regimes." In Washington a high U.S. official dealing with Latin America took a look at the endless crises besetting the hemisphere's governments and likened the situation to a "mountain of sugar melting under a fire hose...
...Castro hesitated not a step in his march to Moscow. The word in Havana was that Economic Czar Ernesto ("Che") Guevara would go to Russia in November and there ask for increased aid, possibly even consigning Cuba's entire sugar crop to the Soviets. Unless Russia was prepared to play Santa Claus, the deal could only worsen Cuba's economic plight. Just diverting one-third of this year's harvest to Iron Curtain countries at their prices (3¼? per lb. v. 4? production cost) was enough to slash sugar workers' wages from $1.31 daily...
THAT issue's cover story on Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, president of Cuba's National Bank and brain be hind Fidel Castro's revolution, brought a different kind of reaction in Cuba...
...facing the invading forces of U.S.-backed Rebel Carlos Castillo Armas, Arbenz abandoned the presidency to make a panicky dash for safety in the Mexican embassy. He thereby won the scorn of a militant young Argentine leftist then temporarily living in Guatemala-Ernesto ("Che") Guevara. Said Che, who is now Castro's one-man brain trust: "If Jacobo Arbenz had been a man, he would have taken himself to the streets and fought...
Battle to Breathe. Che's father, Architect Ernesto Rafael Guevara Lynch, also sees some humor in the fact of his son's control of fiscal Cuba. Sitting recently in his Buenos Aires office, the elder Guevara chuckled that "nobody was more surprised than I when I heard my son was managing the Cuban economy. Any business we Guevaras put money into has always been a failure...