Abstract

EARLY in 1959 Ernesto Che Guevara, like most of other leaders of Castro willingly talked with many persons who expressed an interest in what had happened and was happening in Cuba. Some of resulting interviews were subsequently published in sources not easily accessible to those studying Latin American affairs and thus have not been consulted by students of revolution. One of these neglected interviews was given by Guevara to two Chinese Communist journalists in April 1959, was published in a Chinese journal several months later, and is here available for first time in a complete English translation.' Although official Chinese Communist New China News Agency did not formally open its office in Havana until June 1959, two reporters, K'ung Mai and Ping An arrived in Cuba sometime in midApril.2 The first report sent directly from Havana to Peking was on April 16, 1959.3 According to journalists' introduction in World Knowledge, this interview with Guevara was held for two hours on the 108th evening after victory of revolution, that is to say

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