Homework
January 2,1959,Hawan,Cuba
After a two-year hidden-run war against the forces of the Cuban president Fulgencio Batista, a guerrilla
force led by Fidle Castro and Che Guevara has now gained control of Cuba. In Havana,it will be Che's job to keep the new revolutionary government in power by targeting and purging any opposition. As Cuban president Fulgencio Batista flees in defeat .Fidel Castro and his rebel army make a triumph entry into Havana.
We were regimed as liberated ,celebrated ,i mean,people ran out, the ? of run .people went wild.
It was a marval experience, i think.for the first time, in my life, we were able to see the people of Cuba
united ,with one vision,one love.and that was the most beautiful thing you can see in Cuban history
After 2 years of living in mountains ,rebels find the temptation of Guevara hard to resist
Che had to issue strict orders,on the behaviors of his young men ,who arriving at Havana for the first
time, finding all of the beautiful young women,in a sense,throwing themselves at them,it says ,a lady
described to me,something even hoagie taking place,particularly in the bushes below grade of the statue
of Christ.
Che's wife Hilda,has not seen him since the guerrilla campaign began 2 years earlier,she flies to Havana with her daughter ,and aware that there is another woman in his life
And immediately he told her, that he was no longer in love with her and he wanted to divorce
Che was married to Aleida, just a couple of months later,in a small ceremony,with Raul Castro acting
As one of his witnesses,as Che put his personal life in order,Fidel Castro began to implement the first major change in Cuba
Well, in the beginning,most of the population are expecting,also (are) expecting a change. Castro, always ,he was in the mountains, he promised a election,free election in 18 months
There is not communism or Maxism in our ideas,we will not seize any land from anybody.
Yet on Febuary 16th,just 2 months after the rebel's victory Fidel Castro was sworn in as prime minister,and the election never take place
Thencertain segments of the professional class on the elite began to view Castro as regime with suspicions.
There was a debate ,that start almost from the day Castro took power about whether he was a communist or not,and part of this debate focused on Che Guevara,who obvious did get on the radar screen very quickly of the CIA
Fearing that,alliances with the known communist would jeopardize his position ,Fidel Castro keep Che at distance
He ordered Che to take over the Lacabania Fortress,which is an old colonial garrison,overlooking Havana Harbor and the city
That was where the war criminals were trialed
Che ordered execution of those found guilty
In a sense,carry on with what he had been doing in the war, somewhere trials for tortures ,for men acused for war crime,and carry out the execution,firing squad execution in Lacabania
The American guerrilla Neo Macauly, has been several months with the rebels, and helped train the soldiershe is approached by the commander of the firing squad ,on his first round of executions
he said,Look these are men for execution,you guys do it .Look they make mass of it,we need somebody,who would at least hit the mark. I would prevail crimes,yeah ,yeah , i did ,i did mine, i mean ,i 'm glad he abused that,so i walked out there,i took commanders of the war crimes ,i directed against him ,i mean ,this was the guy ,(who was)guilty,and the next guy who came up,i took that one too |