• 1959 WHEN CASTRO 100k power. /leather and sunglasses. Three Guevara invited Masetti Havana and entrusted him with the task of Captain Hermes finished him off with organising Prensa Latina, whose prin Was this the kind of guerThis Lucer cipal function was to disseminate rilla warfare that Guevara and Masetti Cuban news. •Bur in 1963 Torge Masetti was to tina2 1 doubt it. attempt a bold revolutionary operation which 1 heard him discuss with Che In the meantime. the secret services many times: the establishment had Chested non of their guerrilla focus on Argentinian territory among the young recruits of the EGP. from a base developed Raisin They intrigued to create incidents and (Emphasis in original.) once they had been successfully infil trated it can be said that the guerrilla *In June 1963, Jorge Masetti was in with Cuban action was finished. In the following scheduled to release a book about Ernesto 'Che' During this period. his mother Celia rules had been set by Guevara himself|lese guerrillas made up a firing squad and wrote him a letter from Buenos Aires in agreement with Castro. These rules which chowed the ries of esteem and must have had an absolute tigor since franknace that united them. •Rojo they were not even violated for Celia's Canted this interectino letter follows: _ * In Tune 1965, still durine Guevara's Buenos Aires, 14 April, 1965. isolation, Ben Bella, the head of the my Algerian revolution. was Colonel Boumedienne. The Cubans thought that the African revolution was in dancer. undermined by neonore by colonialism and anarchy Then Guevara accepted the grave responsibility of going to the heart of the black certain bitterness. He was convinced adventure one moed withs i imperialist as a slave. Death to Yankee imperial- effaced. It is better te die than live domination has been that his departure from Africa been forced by a Soviet diplomatic had and its military camarilla. Long manœuvre, and that Moscow and guerrillas." Washington were in secret agreement For all practical purposes this pro as to the main lines of their African clamation did not circulate in Bolivia. policies. entator like except in restricted political circles. It Chevara had place this crossed the frontiers and was printed programme. various countries. But this did Then Che returned to his old dream nothing to change the general impres America to rebellion from Bolivia and Tolling peoples Latin the puerrillas had fallen into a trap. sion of the most penetrating observers:
arrived in La Paz on 12 Tuly as northern Argentina. operation essentially the same as defence attorney for Ciros Bustos try bunal. called Ulvero, which was no hore that ie en necereru to be installed than a collection of small prefabricated And vet the answer to this 1s found houses and a bar, and in the bai we in the people, in their enthusiasm and discussed the revolution with work. The Che Guevara brigade local people, for it was in this village ploughing the length and breadth of 11121 first succeseful attack was the island with bulldozers recovering made on Batista's forces. They pointed millions of acres of hitherto unproducChe attacked. where tive land. At weekends thousands "There Camillo advanced. where Fidel.com voluntarily leave the cities lo plant manded the hattle trom a hill In tron coffee with a gaiety that transforms of us in the square was a model of the work into a carnival. old hated harache a model onle for And it is this theorv of work that the after the victory of the revolution the comrades of Western Europe seem so capable of understanding, meone tore it down with their here when they hands. And from the radio blared denounce Cuba as a petit-bourgeois Tripper by the Beatles, 13hs0- revolution and at the come time re was an interesting reminder to US veal their paternalism towards about a lot of things. third world To lein unlintaru work that the profound links are made As L travel about the country lisee the material benefits of the stands his real identity with the people, particularly the peasants, of full em the very nature of his society, the very ployment, of free and available educa structure and interdependence of it. tion. of the free health service. of low It is here that all the artificial distinerents. of sometimes no Tеп1S tions are ironed out. It is here that the maximum of ten per cent of income. very notion of work is transformed ot free nublic telenhones chenn trend from a dehumanising alienating proport, or free recreational facilities In cess to the creative force of construeAnd 1 think of. Bolivia. tion. It is a demonstrable breakdewn nine Brazil. Africa, even Eneland. of any hierarchical tendencies.
the theor of poatitarianiem in had Havana. throuch action
the best che EGP guarding the frontier Three jercito del Pueblohunger plants. sun Red The revolution and for the day ferings the Masetti plained 1o me.
DOST day the velop as and Masetti ZIUE * Fourteen men already Masetti his the Illia. blished Aires by Ess wing, drew deeper ention the In any case 1SCTS VOICE strikingly ak.
Ithough, the the whole day did not return. give up. devoured him.
promises could clusions nted to stay SHURNOR. did not. theory of the Raje there was commander- the Che.
Argentine ife in the only in passing. 1 afterward in the pro- masses were to be much sher 102UR Some Cubar whom the erans Maestra disRate wild fruit But, Janga. this it is pro- could roam errillas made tina with Were rigorous which setti imnosed was herontaner ion of his meD of the Masetti draftee, Adolfo called eyes.
condemned death, ster him world revolution.
and bank arrived Buenos Aires after passing 1965, but Later he aded the Did they conflict.
motley force give up his 4, the growing demoralisation leader in Cuba. ched off another named one of the in the inteers from Aires, was Black of reof the many handling of Nardo.
of those who guera full of in this most He ent that he keep them from em- his mother not ded in his feet the long ches through the youth, scarcely years uniforms. the beret: the anyone and was Argentinian Bolivian guerrillas died live 00k place On that and one his same surthe hair, five of disease and oppressive and vegecannot be seen primitive jungle focus. was histori mentioned The great urban even aware of the The peasants appeal was Argen Masetti had to teal security services dorable edecides the Trageds in Guevara's Che's boliticat which made Shortly worse On the Industries.
fields and then had other:
and decisive In fact. told that he to Havana was phone but papers. do was a prisoner. with political incognite.
Ine rebcilon tion afloat.
On which his nodnced his DOSEH of commander.
The that Guevara his idea of "
Castro. In Over the the rather than carrying ernment. He mabove becoming followed the fate of the take SCCONG DIRCC But after on nationally.
"His departure fully prepared by political police.
IVAV Che had The sector expression.
Predato natest be's white fliers.
Chevera met already some the health of joined their hundred men instructors.' On telegram:
Minister of battles against Your mother returned to Cuba.
An due to pressure burial, relatives devil e came Castro was apparent of what had In the that wherever only no tele. mail or news.
This a long perfectly territory, ol th year. mand." the local officials, the once exclusive club written about of their theories. Fortunately history read the spite of important differences, peasants in ine plaza Graham Greene in Our Man in has passed them by. The Cuban revoGuevara's adventure is somewhat re- much discussed in the where even Batista himselt lution is a reality, the expression of nationality miniscent of Lenin's in Poland Both directly could not now converted into the If it escapes European operations revealed not only superficial an overly also and yacht clubs with daiquiris while two-thirds of the an art school, where the beach clubs where the rich idled formulae, European serve in their denunciations a sclerosis, this formulae. 1112V say more about Maybe WC obcountry were hungry, now transformed a rigidity of thinking that owes more quickly gave up In any organisation joint work into people's recreational centres In TCURION than an attention 1o the three miles out at sea l see reality of situations. Theory based on could not hide the Polish adventure Lenin risked the that capitalist From the initiative the and forwards USS Oxford prowling backwards and I am reminded of Real theory derives from the analysis abstractions is no more than ideology.
which Che, like the socialist gov- with given and the old Germany Castro ended. Ches with would have Guevara and SOOn common Latin found several small selves 26 September, that compelled peasant had divide On 8 Octo soldiers neas into on Id tial items, food, clothes, the razor blades. of obtaining simple things ates. And 1 see the signs in the streets. the Yanqui blockade that rationing, shortage, queues shortage still oper- for essen- difficulties. like paper. biros, ity of the Cuban revolution, the un- European have taken upon themselves the role avoid the remarkable exceptional qual- of the concrete. of arbiters of sectarians, who somehew revolutionary truth, themselves and politically paint, the sad emptiness of the shops derstanding that she is an undeveloped within an ace canyon of And 1 am reminded of the isolation society feeling towards her problems points of covernmeni Then. view the MNR) decided the rillas to their interest of cadres guer tWO and the exceptional the and the was rangers Bolivian Che, who Simón Behind Cuba. him of Cuba. petrol, for the total reliance on there few natural Soviet quality of that small struggling cour- dialectically. avoids the visionary years before. and his men but Was hit in legs by several bullets.
with soldiers. Simón Cuba.
He had Iripiti 2881n wounded Che again, his beret.
Africa was care- wounded and Cuba put him the ground and the Cuban began firing.
prisoner. In ThA foreigners Debray and Argentinian Ciro battle in Bustos, out of Debray. O1C Colonel sector arriving from was Nan- leg: Another C2.01221 journalistic be able to spread upper arm. news existence of the him and took in the greatest Bolivian in the European leader. Che was their Higuera, Ernesto was taken from the to La battle. he had several Tshombe, Che's was not in danger.
B: which chief prenich, the of the Third Brazzaville with There were Cubans there out in a bare We know room in the were that this imprudent. On discussions several hours. The but they man, the English Bustos, and a third a mosohere tense. It among known that the Major officers Andrew Roth, the hands Guzmán take Guevara Vallegrande helicopter sent about two the army and point this with Selnich. enri the Congo; the being executed of hand by the guerrillas killed the ended. It had been two men Later they At this point operations. and he did not see the Guevara and Bolivian leader claration of guerrillas to Captain Prado Salgado ap Pekine. Bolivian people. behind and fired the Cubans He indi own country has more rights than our exerted national territory. Our lands do not Selnich fired a single shot from his version was belong to us 9 mm revolver It passed through enrich There are Che's heart and lung. Ernesto Che September schools. there hospitals for our Guevara was dead.
He had children. We live When they brought the body OUT our rights our conquests, from the place where the crime was oppressed and committed. the two murderers saw The Army that Che had his eyes open and his by was calm. On his lips could expression into Bolivian be ead all his contempt fer them anc tha invaders ill the love which he felt for the rest of humanity."
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The final chapter of this book was published in The French publishing house of Seuil was the original Spanish in the 10 May issue of
Guevara in the middle of May written by Ricardo Marcha. It contains information of extraordinary Rojo, who is closely associated with the interest about Che Guevara's activities in the Montevideo weekly, "Marcha." two-year period of 1965-67.
itar in Cuban