where he was born, to Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, Guatemala and Bolivia. He participated in the Granma epic, which in two years, to the surprise of everyone, swept away the Batista regime and made way for socialist Cuba, the first free territory on the American continent.
The winning of power showed Guevara more faithful than ever to his communist ideals. He struggled against bureaucratism, against stimulants that could favor it. He struggled for a new man, a genuinely new man having nothing in common with the caricatures provided by the bureaucrats. Imbued to the core with the April 20, I felt the separation as a painful necessity -- that of having to carry out my duty as a revolutionary militant abroad, outside the zone of combat, as he had asked me. And now that this separation has become definitive and irreversible, my greatest sorrow today is not to have died at his side.