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...retired Bolivian general who witnessed the secret burial of Marxist revolutionary and '60s icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara revealed for the first time where the guerrilla leader is buried. General Mario Vargas Salinas told a journalist that Guevara's body was interred by bulldozer, along with those of five other executed guerrillas, under an airstrip at Vallegrande, a Bolivian mountain town 150 miles southwest of Santa Cruz, shortly after Guevara's summary execution by firing squad on Oct. 9, 1967. His final words, according to the general: "Shoot, coward! You are going to kill...
...Nearly everyone in Cuba has close relatives in the U.S., 90 miles away, and the opportunity, increasingly, to meet (and mate) with visitors from Toronto and Madrid. Fidel Castro, if only out of shrewdness, has decreed that no school or street may be named after the living (hence Che Guevara is ubiquitous), and insofar as he has developed a personality cult, has done so mostly by default: revealing almost nothing about himself, and letting speculation do the rest. Where North Korean radios are fixed so as to receive only one (government) channel, Cuban radios are, willy-nilly, open...
Other modern revisions of Christ's death portray the Nazarene as a martyred revolutionary a la Che Guevara, but Brown says the details do not fit that scenario, and besides, Jewish insurrections only arose a generation later...
Cubans take as fierce a pride in their revolutionary heroes as Americans do in the men of 1776: they are the nation's embodiments of freedom and independence. Che Guevara is their Lafayette, Fidel their George Washington. "He has a place in people's hearts that goes far beyond the Communist Party or government structure," observes mining executive McGuinty...
...TRUE REVOLUTIONARY IS GUIDED by great feelings of love," Che Guevara is quoted as saying in A TASTE OF POWER: A BLACK WOMAN'S STORY (Pantheon; $25). By that standard, author Elaine Brown is a genuine radical. She tells an absorbing story of real struggle: how she became the leader of the Black Panther Party, how she and the party battled racism, and how she fought sexism within the group. Her prose is unpretentious and involving. She makes the political personal by recounting her affair with Huey Newton, founder of the Panthers. Newton is revealed as a difficult man, sometimes...