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...Havana's cavernous Blanquita Theater, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara stood calmly before the intense delegates to the First Latin American Youth Congress and waited for the clamor to still. Then he ex plained the Cuban revolution with uncompromising clarity. "What is its ideology? If I were asked whether our revolution is Communist, I would define it as Marxist...
...junketed through China from banquet to banquet and agreed with the Communist All-China Federation of Trade Unions in a joint condemnation of U.S. "imperialist aggression." A Chinese Communist trade delegation to Cuba, headed by Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Lu Hsu-chang, closed a deal with National Bank President Ernesto ("Che"') Guevara to buy 500,000 tons of Cuban sugar each year for five years. A fifth of the payment is to be convertible sterling and the rest vegetable oil, rice, cotton, manufactured goods and "entire factories." In Moscow...
Tempted by visions of bartering sugar for oil, and taking the advice of the Communist who is his chief economic brain, Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, Fidel Castro last week turned to Russia for the oil to run Cuba. In doing so, he seized a $20 million Texaco refinery and a $35 million Jersey Standard (Esso) refinery, both U.S.-owned, and a $20 million refinery of Canadian Shell...
...these days is increasingly Marxist. Aureliano Sanchez Arango, 53, a former Minister of State of Cuba and one of the early fighters against ex-Dictator Fulgencio Batista, charges that "while Castro had ideas, he had no program; the Communists gave him the program." The man most responsible is Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, 32, an Argentine physician, Castro's best field commander, and a Red. A Castro official recalls that when Guevara returned from a three-month trip around the world in September 1959, "things began to happen." Part One: Brainwashing. One big part of what has happened is brainwashing...
Before a group of Havana University students-and a countrywide TV audience-Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, the scraggly-bearded president of Cuba's National Bank and the top Red in the Castro government, explained that Cuba's 3,000,000-ton sugar quota on the high-priced U.S. market (5? per lb. v. 3? on the world market) was not a good deal at all. Instead, said Che, it was a "deceitful" Yankee device designed to "enslave" Cuba by keeping it a one-crop agricultural country. "The purpose is to preclude the industrial development of this country...