“We lined up very few people before firing squads, very few indeed. During the entire war we did not shoot more than ten guys in twenty-five months,” Fidel said. But as for El Maestro, “He was an orangutan; he grew a huge beard. He was also a born clown and carried loads as though he were Hercules, but he was a bad soldier. ... What stupidity to pretend he was Che, in that area, where we had spent a long time, where everyone knew all of us. ... And now, with the new beard, El Maestro was passing himself off as Che: ‘Bring me women. I’m going to examine them all!’ Did you ever hear of anything
...more
