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Che Guevara: Cuban Confederation
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According to corroborating evidence that seems ironbound, Che Guevara has been with the disintegrating Bolivian guerrilla movement since last November with a cadre of skilled officers skimmed from the Cuban Government. He led the movement in its early successes. The successes of the movement now are nonexistent, and Bolivian deserters from the once-disciplined ranks say that Major Guevara, like the incurably sick kings of medieval myth, is constantly ill with asthma and rheumatism and must be carried about on a litter.
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Actually, Che Guevara was anything but a "cold killing machine." The term implies a certain detachment or nonchalance towards murder. In fact Che gave ample evidence of enjoying it. Almost all Cubans who knew him and are now in exile and able to talk freely (Jose Benitez, Mario Chanes de Armas Dariel Alarcon among others) recall Che Guevara as a classic psychopath.
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Guevara recorded the two years he spent in overthrowing Batista's regime in a detailed account entitled Pasajes de la Guerra Revolucionaria. Individual chapters of Pasajes, which was based on the war diary Guevara kept during the guerrilla campaign, first appeared in Verde Olivo, the official magazine of the Cuban armed forces, beginning in 1961. It came out in book format in 1963, and an English translation was issued in 1968 under the title Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War. [25]
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Che disappeared from the public eye for two years after he denounced his positions in the Cuban government. In 1965 he secretly had conferences with a hundred comrades in Cuba who would participate in the revolution that was going on in the Congo. In the Congo things did not turn out as Che had wanted them to. He did not feel that the rebels were good enough fighters and not inspired enough to go through with the revolution. In general, the rebels lacked discipline and there was not enough unity between the soldiers like there had been during the Cuban revolution. He left the Congo with his remaining Cuban comrades in March of 1966.
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The Bolivian "adventure," as one of Major Guevara's Cuban companions calls it, was apparently intended to be the proving ground for Che's guerrilla theories. He and seven Cuban associates from the Sierra Maestra days, including several high Cuban Government officials, entered the country toward the end of last year for the carefully planned operation.
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In July 1956 Castro's fellow conspirators, including Guevara, who even then was considered to be one of the most important, were rounded up by the Mexican security police for conspiring to overthrow the Cuban Government. They were released on 25 July and in December 1956 embarked on the Granma expedition which set the revolt in motion. When the 82-man force landed in Cuba all but 12 of the group were either killed or captured. Guevara was among the survivors, wounded but still active. As the Sierra Maestra-based movement gained strength, Guevara proved to be a capable fighter and military leader and, consequently, stepped up to a high position in the rebel military organization. He practiced medicine infrequently and only when absolutely necessary.
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