Why was the Argentine left hostile to the combatants of the Granma?
Most of them considered that both Batista and Fidel were agents of imperialism. For them, Fidel was an agent of the “democratic wing” of imperialism and the revolution was only a struggle of one agent against the other. I stuck to the Support Committee almost by instinct. I thought: “even if Fidel is an agent of the bourgeoisie, he is more progressive, more democratic than that assassin Batista.” That is why I went to Cuba. And you met Che almost immediately. I arrived in Havana on January 8th, 1959, on a plane that the revolutionary Castroist leadership had sent to repatriate the exiled Cubans who lived in Argentina. Some members of the Support Committee and journalists,myself among them, also travelled on it. Since I was with Che’s mother and his two brothers, I could see him almost immediately. My first impression was that he was a very kind, warm young man, who seemed to be quite shy. He was still wearing his uniform, had mud on his trousers and shoes, and carried a gun in his belt
