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Originally Posted by mlewis78
I've just started Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History by Tony Perrottet. In the intro he writes about Fidel's appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1958, before the revolution. He was welcomed and apparently was a folk hero in those days. I was 7 then and either missed it, or it didn't make an impression. I did not know much about Che before I saw The Motorcycle Diaries.
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Unfortunately there's a lot of people who know all the wrong and inaccurate things about Che Guevara. Not at all a heroic person.