Che Guevara: A Life From Beginning to End (Revolutionaries Book 2) by Hourly History

Author:Hourly History [History, Hourly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hourly History
Published: 2017-02-08T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

The Roving Revolutionary

“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.”

—President John F. Kennedy

In the immediate aftermath of President Kennedy’s death, most Americans were left in shocked wonder at who would strike down their beloved president. In the auspices of the CIA, there were many possibilities, and one of them pointed squarely at Cuba. To many insiders, it was believed that Kennedy’s death could have been payback for the multiple attempts on Fidel Castro’s life that Kennedy himself had signed off on.

While the rest of the world settled on the idea of a lone gunman in a book depository named Lee Harvey Oswald being the sole person responsible, these uneasy feelings about Cuba and the perception of the island nation’s possible connection would remain. Not helping to alleviate such suspicions, just two months prior to Kennedy’s assassination, Fidel Castro in regard to plots on his own life had proffered the now infamous warning: “United States leaders should think that if they assist in terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.”

Just as the clouds of conspiracy were settling over Havana, Che Guevara would state the case for his revolution to the world when in December of 1964 he appeared at the United Nations headquarters in New York City to speak as the head of the Cuban delegation. Here he would expound upon the values of communism while railing against the United States and its allies for what he viewed as their “brutal policies” when it came to such things as racial disparities in the segregated southern United States and apartheid in South Africa.

After raising these issues, he then pointedly proffered the question to the assembly, “Can the United Nations do nothing to stop this?” Any answers to his questions would not be forthcoming, and on December 17th, Che Guevara would leave New York for Paris, France, which would be the starting point of a several month tour as the roving ambassador of revolution.

Che would travel across Europe, Asia, and Africa. Out of all of the places that he visited it was a trip to Algiers, Algeria, on February 24th, 1965, that raised the most eyebrows. It was during this missive in the Algerian capital that Che shocked his communist contemporaries by soundly criticizing the Soviet Union as being an aid to western imperialism. In the speech that Che delivered to the attending delegates, he decried what he saw as the Soviet Union’s “immoral exploitation” of the third world for raw material and resources. He then went on to claim that this was evidence that the Soviet’s were “accomplices to imperialist exploitation.”

Upon his return to Cuba on March 15th, 1965, Che would be chastised by both Fidel and Raul Castro. As soon as he landed, he was immediately escorted away for a private conference. There were no reporters, and no record of exactly what was discussed, but according to Che Guevara’s own bodyguard there was a serious argument that erupted between Che and Fidel Castro

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