Che Guevara nationality 4. Che's last day

15.06.2016

The main figure of the revolutionary movement around the world, Ernesto Che Guevara, would have turned 88 years old on June 14, 2016.

Argentinean Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna, who trained as a doctor and became one of the main protagonists of the Cuban revolution, remains to this day a symbol of the pursuit of ideals.

Many today do not even know all the subtleties of what ideas Che Guevara was the bearer of. However, it is his face that appears on street graffiti, and it is T-shirts with his print that young people wear. Doesn’t this mean that the Comandante has become a symbol of the young, irrepressible and romantic?

We have collected 15 facts and super-famous and rare photographs about Che.

1. Che's full name is Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna, and Che is his nickname.

Che used the nickname to emphasize his Argentine origin. The interjection che is a common address in Argentina.

2. A distant ancestor of Che’s mother was General José de la Serna e Hinojosa, Viceroy of Peru.

Che Guevara's family. From left to right: Ernesto Guevara, mother Celia, sister Celia, brother Roberto, father Ernesto with son Juan Martin and sister Anna Maria.

3. Che didn’t like to wash.

Ernesto's childhood name was Tete, which translated means “little pig.” He always walked around as dirty as a pig.

They called me Hog.
- Because you were fat?
“No, because I was dirty.”
Fear of cold water, which sometimes caused asthma attacks, gave Ernesto a dislike for personal hygiene." (Paco Ignacio Taibo).

4. Che Guevara was born in Argentina, and became interested in Cuba at the age of 11, when Cuban chess player Capablanca came to Buenos Aires. Ernesto was very passionate about chess.

5. The name of Che Guevara appeared in newspapers for the first time not in connection with revolutionary events, but when he made a tour of four thousand kilometers on a moped, traveling all over South America.

When Che and Alberto reached Brazil, Colombia, they were arrested for looking suspicious and tired. But the police chief, being a soccer fan familiar with Argentina's soccer success, released them after learning where they were from in exchange for a promise to coach the local soccer team. The team won the regional championship, and the fans bought them plane tickets to the capital of Colombia, Bogota.

The feature film “The Diary of a Motorcyclist” was shot about this journey.

6. Che loved to read and was fascinated by Sartre all his life.

Young Ernesto read the original in French (knowing this language from childhood) and interpreted Sartre’s philosophical works “L’imagination”, “Situations I” and “Situations II”, “L’Être et le Nèant”, “Baudlaire”, "Qu'est-ce que la litèrature?", "L'imagie." He loved poetry and even composed poems himself.

In the photo: In 1960, Che Guevara met in Cuba with his idols - writers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.

7. Che Guevara turned away from the army

Ernesto Che Guevara, not wanting to serve in the army, used an ice bath to induce an asthma attack and was declared unfit for military service.

8. Che Guevara learned to smoke cigars in Cuba to ward off annoying mosquitoes.

Besides, it was cool. Although he was not allowed to smoke a lot because of the same asthma.

9. Che Guevara in the early 1950s sometimes signed his letters “Stalin II.”

The sister of Fidel and Raul Castro, Juanita, who knew Guevara closely and later left for the United States, wrote about him in a biographical book: “Neither the trial nor the investigation mattered to him. He immediately started shooting because he was a man without a heart.”

10. Was accidentally appointed Minister of Economy.

From November 1959 to February 1961, Ernesto Che Guevara was president of the National Bank of Cuba. In February 1961, Ernesto was appointed Minister of Industry and head of the Central Planning Council of Cuba. This image is the famous photograph of Che at the Cuban Ministry of Industry, 1963.

According to legend, Fidel Castro, having gathered his associates, asked them a simple question: “Is there at least one economist among you? “Hearing “communist” instead of “economist,” Che was the first to raise his hand. And then it was too late to retreat.

11. Che Guevara was married twice and has five children.

In 1955, he married Peruvian revolutionary Ilda Gadea, who gave birth to Guevara's daughter. In 1959, his marriage to Ilda broke up, and the revolutionary married Aleida March (pictured), whom he met in a partisan detachment. They had four children with Aleida.

12. Che criticized the USSR.

In 1963, Ernesto Che Guevara visited the USSR and spoke at a banquet in the Kremlin. His speech was harsh: “Is it really possible, Nikita Sergeevich, that all Soviet people eat the way we do today? In the USSR, bosses get more and more, leaders have no obligations to the masses. There is a blasphemous defamation of Stalin's merits and personality. The Khrushchev-Brezhnev group is mired in bureaucracy and nomenclature Marxism, is hypocritical about the US base in Guantanamo, and even agrees with the American occupation of this Cuban region.”

Later in 1964 in Moscow, he made an indictment against the non-internationalist policies of socialist countries. He reproached them for imposing on the poorest countries conditions of exchange of goods similar to those dictated by imperialism on the world market, as well as for refusing unconditional support, including military support, and for refusing the struggle for national liberation.

13. In some countries of Latin America, after the death of Che, they seriously consider him a saint and call him San Ernesto de La Higuera.

In November 1966, Che Guevara arrived in Bolivia to organize the guerrilla movement. The partisan detachment he created on October 8, 1967 was surrounded and defeated by government forces. Ernesto Che Guevara was wounded, captured and killed the next day.

Many say that no dead man looked as much like Christ as Che in the photograph familiar to the whole world, where he lies on a table in a school, surrounded by Bolivian soldiers.

14. The source of the famous portrait of Che actually looks like this:

On March 5, 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto Korda took the famous photograph of Ernesto Che Guevara. Initially, the photo contained the profile of a random person, but the author later removed unnecessary elements. The photo, titled “Heroic Partisan” (Guerrillero Historico), hung on the wall in Korda’s apartment for several years until he gave it to an Italian publisher he knew. He published the picture immediately after the death of Che Guevara, and the story of the colossal success of this image began, which allowed many of its participants to earn good money. Ironically, Korda is perhaps the only one who never benefited financially from this photograph.

15. How the famous portrait of Che appeared

The world-famous two-color portrait of Che Guevara was created by Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick from a photograph of Korda. On Che's beret you can see the Jose Marti star, a distinctive sign of a commandant (major, there was no higher rank in the revolutionary army), received from Fidel Castro in July 1957 along with this rank.

Fitzpatrick attached Korda's photograph to the window glass and transferred the outline of the image onto paper. From the resulting “negative”, using a special copy machine and black ink, he printed a poster on red paper and then gave away for free almost all copies of his work, which soon became as famous as its black and white original.

15. Warhol made money from Che without making a single move.

“Che was killed twice: first by Sergeant Teran’s machine gun fire, then by millions of his portraits,” the French philosopher Regis Debray once said.

This is once again confirmed by the story about the artist Andy Warhol. He managed to make money on The Heroic Guerrilla (above) without lifting a finger. His companion Gerard Malanga created a work based on a Jim Fitzpatrick poster in the style of Warhol and passed off the work as a drawing by the latter. But Gerard’s scam was revealed, and prison awaited him. Warhol saved the situation - he agreed to recognize the fake as his work on the condition that all the proceeds from the sale would go to him.

16. Che is traditionally, with all monetary reforms, depicted on the front side of the three Cuban pesos bill.

17. Che’s grave was found only in July 1995.

Almost 30 years after the murder, the location of Guevara's grave in Bolivia was discovered. And in July 1997, the remains of the Comandante were returned to Cuba; in October 1997, the remains of Che Guevara were reburied in the mausoleum in the city of Santa Clara in Cuba (pictured).

18. Che Guevara never said his most famous quote.

Be realistic - demand the impossible! - This slogan of Paris May 1968 is mistakenly attributed to Che Guevara. In fact, it was shouted out at the University of Paris III New Sorbonne by Jean Duvigneau and Michel Leris (François Dosse, History of Structuralism: The sign sets, 1967-present, p. 113).

19. In 2000, Time magazine included Che Guevara in its lists of “20 Heroes and Icons” and “The 100 Most Important Persons of the 20th Century.”

20. The famous song “Hasta Siempre Comandante” (“Comandante forever”), contrary to popular belief, was written by Carlos Puebla before the death of Che Guevara, and not after.

Finally, I would like to say that every country in the world probably has its own Che. People of completely different political and aesthetic views consider him theirs, without even thinking about how alien his internal motivations, his thoughts and actions, his temperament and ethical attitudes are, and sometimes even hostile.

Name: Ernesto Che Guevara

Age: 39 years old

Place of birth: Rosario, Argentina

Place of death: La Higuera, Bolivia

Activity: revolutionary, commander of the Cuban Revolution

Marital status: was married

Che Guevara - biography

The Cuban revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara received the most important assignment for the rest of his short life - he was the commander of the revolution in Cuba.

Childhood years, Che Guevara's family

Ernesto was born in the Argentine city of Rosario. The father was an ordinary architect, the mother was a simple girl from a family of planters. The family did not live in one place, and therefore the boy graduated from college in Cordoba and received higher education in another place - in Buenos Aires. Ernesto firmly decided to become a doctor. The future revolutionary has his own biography, as he said, so he did, he became a surgeon and dermatologist. But the young man had an amazing range of interests.

Ernesto traveled a lot. Along the way, while working on a cargo ship, he visited British Guiana and Trinidad. Moving under his own power, using a bicycle and a moped, Guevara visits other countries. He traveled through Chile, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. The future revolutionary was still gaining experience and in the meantime defended his diploma by writing a paper on allergies.

Independent practice

The young surgeon went to work, as circumstances turned out, in Guatemala. A war broke out in the republic; the Nicaraguan army invaded its territory. The president was replaced by another ruler as soon as the previous one abdicated power. From that moment on, the military biography of the Argentinean Che Guevara began. He actively helped the residents of the republic: transported weapons, put out fires. For this, the opponents of the socialists who came to power subjected Ernesto to repression.

The Argentine embassy intervened, and from there he left safely for Mexico City. I tried to become a journalist in a foreign country - it didn’t work out, then a photographer, a guard at a book publishing house. Guevara got married, but it became even more difficult, since his unstable work brought the same unstable earnings. When the city hospital announced a competition for a vacant position, he was glad that he found a job in the allergy department.

Revolutionary biography

Revolutionaries from Cuba began to come to Mexico City, and one Cuban friend offered to take part in the upcoming military actions, for this it was necessary to go to the Caribbean islands. Ernesto could not refuse such an offer. Soon he became very close to Raul and finally decided to help the Cubans as a doctor. But Fidel recognized his comrade-in-arms’ enormous knowledge in revolutionary matters. The revolutionaries experienced many difficulties; following a denunciation from a provocateur, Fidel and Ernesto were arrested. Cultural figures and supporters of Che Guevara and Castro achieved their release.

Che became a major and received 75 armed men under his command. The states provided all possible support to the partisans and reported in their printed publications about the actions of the underground fighters. The Comandante began publishing the newspaper Free Cuba, on the pages of which he launched propaganda and educational work. At first, the rebels wrote all the articles in the newspaper by hand, but later they managed to mechanize this process.

Victory March

The partisans began to descend from the mountains into the valleys, and the urban communists received support from former underground fighters. To attract peasants, an agrarian reform was carried out, and landowners' lands were liquidated. The rebels won victory after victory as they advanced through Cuban cities, displacing Batista's hated army.

Che Guevara - biography of personal life

After the victory, Ernesto received Cuban citizenship, the posts of President of the National Bank and Minister of Industry. Actively traveled across countries and continents. The first time Che Guevara married a friend of his youth, who came to Mexico for him. There were no children in the marriage; the leader of the revolution had a strong passion for military operations and the partisan movement.

Cousin Carmen, who attracted the teenager with her dancing,
a girl from a rich family, Maria, whose family did not want to let a tramp in,
married to Ilda Acosta, the eldest daughter Ildida was born, four years later the couple separated,
revolutionary Aleida March, with whom four children were born,
partisan Tanya is the revolutionary’s last love.

Years before death and death

Che Guevara is developing active government activities, signing agreements on cooperation and trade relations with other countries, in particular with the USSR. Friendly relations with the Soviet Union were confirmed by the fact that the Cuban leader was nearby during the celebration of the October Revolution, standing on the podium of the Mausoleum. His military biography does not end there. In 1965, Guevara went to the Congo to pass on his experience in waging insurgent warfare to local guerrillas, but his goals were not achieved.

And the leader himself again became infected with malaria, aggravated by asthma, attacks of which had tormented him since childhood. He was treated in a sanatorium in Czechoslovakia and along the way hatched a plan for a new partisan war. Such a campaign in Bolivia was suppressed by supporters from the United States of America. 11 months of struggle did not produce positive results; Guevara and a small detachment were surrounded, there were long questions and inquiries. As soon as the order to shoot the Cuban rebel was received, the sentence was immediately carried out.

Few of our contemporaries were able to stir up public consciousness so much and leave behind so many mysteries and secrets as the symbol of the 20th century - Che Guevara.

The story of Ernesto Guevara is still replete with blank spots. And the most difficult thing is to understand and explain everything that lay behind the motives and impulses of this unique person, how he collected ideas that captivated entire peoples and countries, where and how he drew strength.

Ernesto was born on June 14, 1928 in the family of Irish-born architect Ernesto Guevara Lynch. Royal blood flowed in his veins, which he inherited from his mother, Doña Celia de la Serna la Llosa. A distant ancestor of Ernesto's mother, José de la Serna e Hinojosa (1770-1833), was a Spanish general, colonial official and the penultimate viceroy of Peru. Perhaps it was in Che Guevara, after many, many years, that the spirit of a brave and noble nobleman, accustomed to commanding events and people, was revived.

On the family's yerba mate plantation, Ernesto Guevara Lynch became the first in the area to pay his workers in cash, causing discontent among local planters. The eldest Guevara tried to raise his five children comprehensively: the house had a huge library of several thousand books, the doors of the house were always open to children of various classes - both from rich families and from families of ordinary workers. For example, Ernesto was friends with the daughter of the poet and journalist Córdoba Ituburu, who shared the ideas of the communists.

During the years of the Spanish Civil War and World War II, Guevara's house was visited by many military figures, as well as political activists, who talked and discussed a lot about what was happening in the world. Most likely, it was at this time that Ernesto formed an understanding of the complex diversity of the world and sketches and ideas for the future concept of his worldview appeared.

Ernesto suffered from asthma from the age of two until the end of his life, so he completes most of his school curriculum at home. After receiving secondary education, in 1945 Ernesto entered the medical faculty of the University of Buenos Aires. As a student, he enjoys reading Sartre, Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, and the works of Argentine socialist authors. He himself keeps a diary and composes poems, which after his death will be published in multi-volume editions.

Young Ernesto has enough energy for a lot of things: he plays football, engages in rugby, horse riding, golf, gliding, travels a lot, preferring to travel by bicycle, hired a sailor, and visits several countries. Already at this age, the young man decides for himself that his main calling in life will not be his personal life, but serving people, following the example of those selfless people whom he sincerely admired. In 1952, together with the doctor of biochemistry Alberto Granadas, Ernesto Guevara visited Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Colombia, visiting and studying the work of leper colonies. On the road, the travelers did not disdain any kind of work, helping to repair, heal, carry heavy loads and harvest crops, while observing the life of ordinary people and the difficult living conditions of the Indians along the way.

In 1953, Guevara received a diploma in surgery and dermatology. And instead of going to serve in the army, he goes to Bolivia, where at that time the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement party came to power. Truly global things are happening in the country: the nationalization of mines, agrarian reform, the involvement of workers and peasants in government... Ernesto Guevara works a lot, meets different people, travels, including to the sacred places of the Indians, carefully studying their culture .

He visits Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica, meets, communicates and enters into discussions with revolutionary figures from different countries. In the same year, Ernesto meets the revolutionary Hilda Gadea Acosta. The young man captivated Ilda with his knowledge of Marxism, depth of judgment and choice of life goal - to help ordinary people and fight for justice.

During the military conflict in Guatemala in 1954, Ernesto Guevara received his first combat experience: he participated in an air defense group, helped transport weapons, participated in propaganda work, as a result of which he was included in the list of “dangerous communists” designated for destruction. Che Guevara has to flee to Mexico.

In Mexico in 1955, he married Ilda Gadea Acosta. Ernesto tries himself as a journalist, continues to practice medicine and leads an active life, meeting many progressive-minded people. One of them would later call Guevara “a continental revolutionary who thinks not so much about Argentina as about Latin America as a whole”...

In Mexico, Ernesto meets Fidel and Raul Castro, this meeting welcomes him to the future Island of Freedom - Cuba. It is interesting that after the meeting, Fidel Castro noted the great revolutionary maturity and courage of Che Guevara’s ideas. In preparation for the expedition to Cuba, all members of the detachment underwent active physical training: cross-country throws, judo classes, physical training in the gym, and military exercises. In turn, Che Guevara taught the squad members how to provide first aid.

Needless to say, the courage of the 82 people who went out to sea in storm and rain on a small ship designed for 10 people. Their landmark was the island of Cuba, their goal was freedom. Only a week later the ship arrived on the shores of Cuba, and the detachment immediately came under fire from Batiste’s military. More than half of the expedition members were lost.

Che Guevara himself would later write: “Somewhere in the forest, during the long nights (at sunset our inaction began) we made daring plans. They dreamed of battles, major operations, and victory. It was happy hour. Together with everyone else, I enjoyed, for the first time in my life, cigars, which I learned to smoke to ward off annoying mosquitoes. Since then, the aroma of Cuban tobacco has become ingrained in me. And my head was spinning, either from the strong “Havana”, or from the audacity of our plans - one more desperate than the other.”

People around Che Guevara note his great love of reading, iron will, loyalty to ideals, self-sacrifice and concern for his comrades. In a difficult struggle with the forces of Batiste, victory was nevertheless snatched, and Che became the minister of the revolutionary government of Cuba.

In this position, he meets with prominent politicians from many other countries: Mao Zedong, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, he comes to Moscow. Guevara becomes a global symbol of the modern revolutionary, openly promoting his understanding of Marxism and castigating the shortcomings of existing socialist states.

He participates in revolutionary movements in African countries and in Bolivia. In 1967, in Bolivia, his squad comes under fire from specially trained CIA forces and Che is captured. The next day he was shot. Ernesto's burial place was unknown until 1997, when his remains were exhumed and buried with military honors in Cuba.

For many residents of Latin America and Cuba, Che Guevara became a saint; they turned to him “San Ernesto de La Higuera”, asking for protection and mercy.

The image of Che Guevara has become in the history of our time something more than just a revolutionary character. The direction of Chegevarism is a real Path of nonconformism, search and courage, a path overshadowed by romanticism and faith in the ability of man to change the world for the better.

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On October 9, 1967, Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna, known asChe Guevara. The last words of the world famous revolutionary were: “Shoot, coward, you will kill the man!”

My defeat will not mean that it was impossible to win.
Many have failed trying to reach the top of Everest,
but in the end Everest was defeated.
Che Guevara

I dreamed of serving people

The future Comandante of the Cuban Revolution (1953-1959) was born on June 14, 1928 in Argentina. Guevara's parents managed to provide all their five children with the opportunity to receive higher education. In particular, Ernesto received a medical degree, graduating from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires in 1953, and dreamed of devoting his life to treating leprosy patients. The political views of the future revolutionary were formed from childhood, thanks to his family. His father was a supporter of leftist forces, and during the Second World War, together with his wife, he took part in the activities of a militant organization that opposed the dictatorship of Argentine President Juan Peron.

From chess to revolution

Immortal symbol of revolution

During the Cuban Revolution, Guevara proved himself to be a brave soldier and talented commander. Despite his serious illness, he made grueling forced marches; as a doctor, he treated the wounded, was harsh in his expressions, but never humiliated his subordinates. After the victory of the Cuban Revolution, Comandante Guevara could not sit still. He believed that it was necessary to continue the revolutionary struggle in other parts of the world, while Castro and his associates believed that state building in their homeland was necessary. The world-famous revolutionary went to the Congo in 1965, and a year later to Bolivia, where a real hunt began for Che Guevara. The US CIA took an active part in it. In 1967, the commander was captured. It is still unknown who gave the order to execute him, but on the night of October 9, in the building of a village school in the town of La Higuera, the sentence was carried out. Defeated in battle, Ernesto Che Guevara became an immortal symbol of the revolution.

June 14 marked the 89th anniversary of the birth of the famous Latin American revolutionary, commander of the revolution in Cuba, Ernesto Che Guevara. The partisans, without hesitation, followed him to certain death, and the women also unconditionally followed the commandant, losing their heads at his mere glance. There were many love stories in his life, but the main love was always the revolution. Nevertheless, some women still managed to leave a noticeable mark in the life of Che Guevara.

Ernesto Guevara in his youth

Ernesto Guevara was a very passionate and enthusiastic person; he repeated more than once that a man cannot spend his whole life with one woman. Che treated sexual relationships very simply and did not attach any importance to fleeting connections. “Don’t forget that that little itch we call sexuality needs to be scratched from time to time, otherwise it will get out of control, take over every waking moment and lead to real trouble,” he wrote to a friend.


Che Guevara

Many were surprised at how easily Ernesto Guevara conquered women. And this despite the fact that he could not be called a brilliant gentleman. Women appreciated his intelligence, erudition, and ardor and did not notice his untidiness, short stature and bad manners.


Legendary Comandante Che Guevara

His first love was a girl nicknamed Chinchina (“rattle”). She was the most beautiful in school, and was also the heiress of one of the richest families. Ernesto was in love and rushed to win the girl. They were even planning to get married after he graduated from university. But instead he went on a trip to Latin America, and their paths diverged.


Ernesto Guevara and his first wife Ilda Gadea

Ernesto Guevara and Ilda Gadea with their daughter |

Che's first wife was Peruvian Ilda Gadea. They were brought together by common interests. What attracted him to her was that she read Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Gorky, whom he admired, and was also a Marxist and revolutionary. Later, Ilda told how the Comandante captivated her: “Doctor Ernesto Guevara impressed me from the very first conversations with his intelligence, seriousness, his views and knowledge of Marxism... Coming from a bourgeois family, he, having a medical diploma in his hands, could easily make a career in his own homeland. Meanwhile, he sought to work in the most backward areas, even for free, in order to treat ordinary people... I well remember that in this regard we discussed Archibald Cronin’s novel “The Citadel” and other books that touch on the theme of the doctor’s duty to the working people. .. Dr. Guevara believed that a doctor must devote himself to improving the living conditions of the general public. And this will inevitably lead him to condemn the governmental systems that dominate our countries.”


Comandante and Aleida March

Wedding with Aleida

Comandante and Aleida March with children

Che Guevara was especially interested in women who were as passionate as he was about revolutionary ideas. He met the Argentinean Aleida March during the years of guerrilla warfare in Cuba. She was active in the underground movement and became his personal secretary when he commanded the rebels.


The great revolutionary is a tender father

Aleida March with children

About how he won her heart, Aleida recalled: “I was standing on the threshold of the factory, where we were watching the movement of the enemy camp, and suddenly Che began to recite a poem that was unknown to me. At this time I was talking to others - and this was an attempt to attract my attention. It seemed to me that he wanted me to look at him not as a leader or a boss, but as a man.”


Comandante and Aleida March

Che Guevara and his second wife Aleida March

After the victory, he divorced his first wife and married Aleida. In this marriage they had four children. They lived from 1959 to 1965, until Guevara left for the Congo. Later, Aleida headed the Che Guevara Center in Havana and published a book of memoirs, where she described Che as an intelligent, caring, gentle man, but who left too early.

Che Guevara

Tamara Bunke, aka partisan Tanya

Che Guevara's last love was Tamara Bunke Bider, known by the nickname Tanya the Partisan. This was the most controversial figure in the biography of the commander. According to some sources, she was an agent of Cuban intelligence in Bolivia and the mistress of the Bolivian president, according to others, Tanya worked for the KGB. They met when she accompanied Che as a translator. Tanya prepared a base for underground fighters in Bolivia, and then went to the mountains with Che and, according to one version, died in 1967, 40 days before the death of the commandant. According to another version, she survived and left for the USSR under a different name.


Legendary Comandante Che Guevara

Legendary Comandante Che Guevara

Even in the very last days, Che, when he was captured and held under arrest in a school in the village of La Higuera, won the heart of the 19-year-old teacher who brought him food. She was the last civilian to see him alive. Julia Cortes later admitted that she fell in love with him at first sight: “Curiosity pushed me to go look at an ugly and bad man, and I met an extremely handsome man. His appearance was terrible, he looked like a tramp, but his eyes shone. For me, he was a wonderful, courageous, intelligent man. I don’t believe there will ever be another one like this.”


Julia Cortes