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...lining Major Ernesto "Che" Guevara's second-in-command at La Cabana Fortress, Major Benjamin Camino, an open antiCommunist, was recently arrested for "conspiracy...
...Cubans hoped that Castro had learned as well as talked on his U.S. trip. One ranking member of the Castro party declared that "Fidel was astonished at his warm reception. It profoundly changed his thinking about the U.S." Red-liners in the Castro movement were worried. Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, pro-Communist commander of Castro's bloody Cabana Fortress in Havana, warned that "foreign influences are trying to prevent the success of the revolution...
...armed forces a leftist and fellow-traveler network reaches high up: Argentine-born Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, commander of Havana's La Cabana Fortress, who joined a militia of Arbenz Communists in Guatemala; Army Commander in Chief Raul Castro, Fidel's brother, who spent 1952-53 studying in Prague and Budapest; Alfredo Guevara (no kin to Che), boss of the army information program; Major Manuel Pineiro, commander of Oriente and supervisor of a secret training center in Santiago, where anti-American propaganda is used to indoctrinate officer candidates...
Toward the end of 1958, the rebels began moving west. Ex-Dishwasher Camilo Cienfuegos marched a column into the hills of Camagŭey. In December the rebels launched a "battle for Santa Clara"-a city of 150,000 in Las Villas. A column led by Che Guevara quickly took the streets, the Batista army as quickly retreated to its fortress post, and in five days of shooting 60 died...
Communists, strong in the new labor organization but weak elsewhere, will try to stir anti-U.S. hatreds. Che Guevara, a frank proCommunist, will give Communism all the help he can in the new army. A Communist-lining journalist, Carlos Franqui, is in a powerful spot as editor of the official rebel newspaper, Revolución. But Cubans know the U.S. too well to swallow the usual Communist whoppers. Any party that wins free elections in Cuba will doubtless be in the Western camp...