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movement led by Castro and supported by the Argentine guerilla leader
Ernesto "Che" Guevara seized power in 1959. Castro protected his
regime with political and military support from the Soviet Union, and
even when the USSR collapsed, Castro was able to survive.
The Communist movement in Cuba, and in Latin
America in general, had an aspect of romanticism. Che
Guevara's guerilla movement in particular was Cuba's Communist
portrayed as the "story of a hero." Many young revolution, brought
about by the com-
people mounted posters of Che struggling for
bined efforts of
Communism and sang Latin American Fidel Castro and
Communist songs. Apparently the Cuban Che Guevara, is
revolution was a "freedom struggle" to usually presented
as a romantic
save people from cruelty and torture
episode in a heroic
under the Cuban dictator Batista. legend. But
That was hardly the truth, how- Communism
brought only mis-
ever. If we look behind the romantic
ery and torture to
Cuba.