This is the first exclusive interview with Major Ernesto “Che”, Che Guevara taken in 1964, Cuban Minister of Industries, seen and heard in the United States. Feeling that a portrait of the man who has been called “The power behind Castro,” “The architect of the Cuban Revolution,” “The top leftist in Cuba,” Che Guevara the man who may succeed Castro, would have meaning to the American people, ABC sent its cameras and Lisa Howard to Cuba for this filmed interview with Major Guevara in his offices in the Ministry of Industries in Havana.
Note: questions are in English, but Che Guevara is answer in Spanish, no translation.
Undated photo of Spanish missionary Luis Cuartero, who was given previously unpublished photos of Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s corpse, second from left, leading a ceremony in Bolivia around 1967.
WARNING: The images below may be disturbing because of their graphic nature.
This page is dedicated to ‘Benigno’ …. I am not a liberator.
They do not exist. The People liberate themselves.
In April 1957, also during an asthma attack, Che clashed with soldiers under the command of Sanchez Mosquera. Running out of ammunition, he barely made his way to shelter. “Asthma at first took pity and allowed me to run a few metres, then it took its revenge: my heart thumped as if it were ready to leap out of my chest. Suddenly I heard the crunch of branches but by now I couldn’t even force myself to run. But this time it was one of our new men, who had lost his way.
Three students have filed a lawsuit against Dixie State University in St. George, Utah, claiming their First Amendment rights were violated when flyers they made promoting their student club were censored by school officials.
this week against the university. Dixie State disapproved of promotional flyers by the student group Young Americans for Liberty (YAL), which negatively portrayed Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara.
Chevolution is a 2008 documentary on the iconography of Guerrillero Heroico, the photograph of taken by Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez (a.k.a. Alberto Korda) in 1960 that has solidified the place of Che Guevara in the popular culture pantheon.