Is it fair to say that after Guatemala Che was a strong anti-imperialist, although not a revolutionary?
After Guatemala, Che marries a woman who is a very active revolutionary. A lot of revolutionaries come to Guatemala at the time because what is happening there is hugely exciting. It’s the first time in many years that the US’s interests have been taken on by a national reformist government which is attempting to carry through land reforms, trade union reforms, and so on. At that point Che begins to read and to see himself not only as an anti-imperialist but also as somebody moving towards socialist thinking, towards Marxism. So 1954 to me is the point at which the political Guevara begins to emerge out of that earlier experience. In your book you mention Mexico. Is this where he meets Cuban dissidents and shares his ideas about guerrilla warfare? Drawing conclusions from Guatemala, Guevara says, ‘We should have fought harder. We should have resisted.’ The problem for Guevara was a military one – the people were not armed, not prepared to resist. Guevara has grown up as an anti-imperia
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