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...Vincenzina and Enzo were in love, and they ran away together. It was then that the question of Vincenzina's honor came up. Six years before, she confessed in tears, when she was 15, there had been Ernesto-Ernesto who was "so handsome that girls ate him with their eyes." But it was all over now, and Ernesto had married. Although Enzo himself was not married to Vincenzina, he was outraged by her confession, took her home to her family. Vincenzina's father was shamed, ordered her out of the house, and draped black cloth over his front...
From that moment Vincenzina knew what she must do. She bought a butcher knife, tucked it inside a newspaper and started walking. She found Ernesto, her first love, at a bus stop. "Vincenzina, you are prettier than ever," Ernesto began, but he did not finish. Vincenzina fell upon him with the knife, stabbing him in the chest and stomach...
...trial Vincenzina told the judge: "I had to kill him to restore my honor. There was no other way." Luckily, Ernesto survived the knifing, and the judge, allowing that "a woman must be the guardian of her own honor," sentenced Vincenzina to a mild three years in jail...
Decimation. Six days later Castro landed on the southern shore of Oriente province, to be met by Batista's 1st Regiment. Only a dozen rebels escaped the slaughter. Among them were Cuba's future leaders: Fidel and Raul Castro, an Argentine surgeon named Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, a onetime New York dishwasher named Camilo Cienfuegos, a Havana rebel named Faustino Perez...
...Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, 30, is an asthmatic, Argentine-born, Communist-lining surgeon, and the rebels' best field commander. After slipping in and out of Guatemala on mysterious missions during Guatemala's Red-influenced days, Che joined Fidel Castro in Mexico in time for the invasion. He turned the tide of war with his bloody late-December campaign in the central province of Las Villas, which he commanded in spite of a broken...