Category Archives: Poems and Speeches

A Neglected Che Interview

A Neglected Che Interview

I have never forgotten how one of the participants in the attack on the Moncada army camp responded at that time. He said to me: "Our action is very simple. What we want to do is to initiate a coup ..
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Speech Tricontinental Conference

Speech Tricontinental Conference

In the interval between his disappearance from Cuba in the spring of 1965 and his death in Bolivia in the fall of 1967, Guevara made one public statement. It was his message "from somewhere in the wor ..
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Goodbye Letter to his Children (1965)

Goodbye Letter to his Children (1965)

Dear Hildita, Aleidita, Camilo, Celia and Ernesto, If you read this letter one day, it will mean that I am no longer alive. You will hardly remember me, and the smallest among you will have entirel ..
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Man & Socialism Speech (1965)

Man & Socialism Speech (1965)

Dear Comrade: Though belatedly, I am completing these notes in the course of my trip through Africa, hoping in this way to keep my promise. I would like to do so by dealing with the theme set forth i ..
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Letter to his parents

Letter to his parents

Dear old folks: Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante*. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm. Almost ten years ago I wrote you another farewell letter. As I recall, ..
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Goodbye letter from Fidel – Carta de Despidida

Goodbye letter from Fidel - Carta de Despidida

This is the translation of the (in-) famous 'Carta de Despedida' or Goodbye Letter of Che. This letter had to be read after Che's death but Fidel read it, while Che was in the Congo. This made it real ..
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Carlos Puebla about Che Guevara

Carlos Puebla about Che Guevara

Hasta siempre comandante Hasta Siempre Commandante De: Carlos Puebla By: Carlos Puebla Aprendimos a quererte We learned to love you desde la histírica altura From h ..
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