Che Guevara — "Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Co…"
Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Congolese machine-gunners to defend the base from air attack: they did not know how to handle their weapons and did not want to learn.
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time. * Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
Argentine Marxist revolutionary, second-in-command of the Cuban Revolution under Castro, executed in Bolivia in 1967 attempting to export the revolution.
Closely associated with
Fidel Castro (revolutionary partner) and Camilo Cienfuegos (fellow Cuban revolutionary commander).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Félix Rodríguez, Cuban-American CIA officer — Rodríguez led the Bolivian team that captured Che in 1967 and was present at his execution. The cleanest single event in the US-vs-Cuban-revolution proxy war — an exiled-Cuban CIA officer hunting down Castro's lieutenant in the South American jungle.