After 50 years, Cuba publishes Che's diary

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Cuban People Pay Tribute to Antonio Maceo and Ernesto Guevara
TUESDAY, 14 JUNE 2011 15:19
Guantanamo (Solvision).-Cubans payed tribute to independence hero Antonio Maceo and to guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara on the occasion of another anniversary of their respective birthdays.
In Santiago de Cuba, floral wreaths were placed in monuments dedicated to Maceo, the Cuban General, also known as the Bronze Titan, who was born in 1845 and became one of the independence paradigms during the struggle against the Spanish colonial rule in the 19th century.

Maceo and Che Guevara, born a day like today in 1928 in Rosario, Argentina, left an indelible mark on Cuban history.

“They were both loyal to their principles in the times they lived. They had an iron will, an extraordinary courage, a deep sense of dignity and humanity and the will to fight for their homeland until the last minute.

Their deeds, heroism and qualities together with their revolutionary and anti-imperialist feelings led them to fight for noble and just causes,” reads a note published on Tuesday by Granma newspaper on the occasion of the anniversary of their birthday.

After 50 years, Cuba publishes Che's diary
By Shasta Darlington, CNN
June 14, 2011 -- Updated 1809 GMT (0209 HKT)

Havana (CNN) -- More than 50 years after the fact, Cuba has published the diary that Ernesto "Che" Guevara kept during the armed struggle that he waged alongside Fidel Castro from the Sierra Maestra mountains.
"Diary of a Combatant" recounts Guevara's experiences from coming ashore in Cuba on December 2, 1956, until shortly before the bearded rebels declared victory January 1, 1959.
According to Guevara's widow, Aleida March, the goal is "to show his work, his thoughts, his life, so that the Cuban people and the entire world get to know him and don't distort things anymore."
The book was edited by the Che Guevara Studies Center, which is directed by March, and published by Australia's Ocean Press/Ocean Sur.
Researchers said that Guevara kept his diary in hand-written notebooks and that part of the reason they put off publishing the diary was because some of the notebooks were missing.
"Where are the notebooks? We don¹t know, and there are a lot of different versions," Maria del Carmen Ariet, a leading researcher from the Che Guevara Studies Center, said at a press conference to launch the book.
But she also said that much of the material was included in "Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War," a more polished account of his time in the Sierra Maestra mountains that Guevara published in 1963.
"We'd have to ask if he really wanted the 'Diary of a Combatant' published," she said.
Some of Guevara's other diaries have been commercially successful, most notably "The Motorcycle Diaries," the memoir of a 23-year-old medical student on a road trip in Latin America.
Guevara was born in Argentina in 1928 and met Castro in 1955 in Mexico City, where he was plotting his return to Cuba to overthrow Fulgencio Batista.
During the guerrilla fighting in the mountains, Guevara was the first subordinate to be promoted to the rank of "comandante" by Castro.
He went on to become Cuba's Central Bank chief before heading to Africa and then Bolivia to continue armed struggles. He was killed in 1967.

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Trump administration suspends US commercial flights to 9 destinations in Cuba except Havana

(CNN) — Flights to nine destinations in Cuba, not including Havana, will be suspended by the Department of Transportation.

The department issued a notice on Friday suspending US commercial flights from flying to the Cuban destinations. The notice will take effect on December 10.

The announcement is another step in the Trump administration's attempt to tighten the relationship between the US and Cuba in a direct reversal of President Barack Obama's Cuba policy. The Transportation Department is taking this action, according to the filed notice, at the request of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo "to further the Administration's policy of strengthening the economic consequences to the Cuban regime for its ongoing repression of the Cuban people and its support for Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela."

The White House confirmed the move but did not provide any further comment, according to spokesman Judd Deere.

The Cuban government slammed the US just hours after the announcement.

In a tweet, Cuban Foreign Ministry General Director Carlos Fernández de Cossio criticized the US, accusing it of not caring about the consequences of its actions. He asserted that his country's "response will not vary."

"In an effort to punish Cuba's unbreakable rebelliousness, imperialism takes aim at regular flight service to various Cuban cities," de Cossio tweeted. "They don't care if they impact family contacts, the limited means of Cubans in both countries or unjust inconveniences."

This is the second action taken against Cuba this week by the Trump administration after the Department of Commerce changed a regulation to prevent US companies from leasing planes to Cuban government airlines on Monday.
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