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the opinion of other members who thought they should abort the operation given their current situation. Masetti ordered one group to look for food while he stayed behind, but two of this group, Marcos and César, died of hunger in the jungle and another two, Jouvet and
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President Illia dated 9 July 1963. The guerrilla Bustos was in charge of taking the letter to the media, which meant he had to travel through the whole country. Though the letter had practically no impact on the media and on public opinion which barely noticed it, it did spark the immediate mobilization of the
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Jouvet's group survived despite considerable hardship caused by food shortages, and in the middle of April they were found by the
Gendarmerie, detained, and then put on trial. A few days after the Gendarmerie found the other group. Two men, Jorge Guille and the Cuban Hermes Peña were killed in combat
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which had exploded at the cost of 100 lives. It is
Masetti who appears in the original, uncropped photograph of Che Guevara, taken by Cuban photographer Albert Korda at the March 5, 1960 memorial for the victims of the La Coubre explosion. In the uncropped photograph, Masetti's profile is visible in
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and we helped them as much as possible, but the most important thing is that they want to fight. For poverty and sickness this is a region that has hit rock bottom, and is still digging. Here a feudal economy rules. Whoever comes here and doesn't get angry, whoever comes here and doesn't rise up,
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were not permitted to participate in the election. On 21 September 1963 Masetti's guerrillas crossed into
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Emboruzú in Bolivia. Masetti took the rank of deputy commander, saving the leadership for Che when he was ready to join the group after it had established itself. He started the planning of the purchase of weapons and the logistic to prepare the arrival of Che
587:"I think that it was a disaster caused by abysmal military leadership... I think that it was a military disaster, and, from the political perspective, a tactical failure. However, it was in this order: firstly I thought of it as a military mistake, and only after that as a political mistake."
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