Guevara’s Legacy in Cuba

Helen Yaffe

Chapter 10 in Che Guevara, 2009, pp 257-275 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Tirso Sáenz points up at the large framed photo on the sitting room wall behind him. It shows Guevara squinting in the sun and straining as he carries the corner of a gable-shaped concrete slab on a rooftop during voluntary labour. ‘Look at the man on the right of Che’, instructs Sâenz. ‘That is “El Gato” [the cat], a man from Guatemala who was in Mexico with Che. He died in Guatemala fi ghting and I saw Che crying when he received the news that El Gato was dead.’ Guevara had been giving advice on the struggle underway in Guatemala and he felt the loss of his friend deeply, said Tirso, formerly a vice minister in the Ministry of Industries (MININD). ‘I told you, Che set a personal example in everything — can you imagine him encouraging the guerrillas in Latin America but sitting back as a minister in Cuba smoking a cigar? He couldn’t do it. I personally heard Che several times saying: “I will not die as a bureaucrat. I will die fi ghting on a mountain.”’2

Keywords: Socialist Economy; Social Expenditure; Welfare Provision; Socialist Society; Cuban Revolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230233874_10

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