The Washington Post, October 16th, 1997
IN LIFE, Ernesto "Che" Guevara was, after his success in helping Fidel Castro make the Cuban revolution, a failure. The other would-be revolutions embraced by this Argentine-born ideologue crumbled. But in death he blossomed as a symbol of youthful daring and utopian aspiration in a global movement -- communism -- that came to be completely discredited yet survives in Cuba and a few other countries and in the minds of a diaspora of incurable romantics and unrepentant commissars. Some of his remains, found in a secret Bolivian grave and returned to Cuba last July, are at the center of Havana's ...
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