kate howton’s Reviews > Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War: Authorized Edition > Status Update

“Those fighting the dictatorship in the Sierra and the Llano were able to maintain opinions on tactics that were at times diametrically opposed, without this leading to abandoning the insurrectional struggle… In the face of external pressure & attempts to divide it, we always presented a common front.” (ie they kept Americans OUT their business lmao)

the deeper into this we get the funnier che lets himself be

“The revolution has been built on the sincere efforts of many ordinary people. Our mission is to develop what is good and noble in each persons to convert every person into a revolutionary, from the Davids who did not understand very well, to the Banderases, who died without seeing the dawn.”

“The physical conditions of the struggle were very hard, but the spiritual conditions even more so, and we lived with the feeling that we were constantly under siege.”

As foolish as it sounds this book is incredible workout fuel hahahaha

“This might have been the first time I was faced, literally, with the dilemma of choosing between my devotion to medicine and my duty as a revolutionary soldier. There at my feet was a backpack full medicine and a box ammunition, they were too heavy to carry both. I picked up the ammunition, leaving the medicine and started to cross the clearing.”

I need to stop starting new books but I have a system OKKK. Fidel's autobiography is dense asf and We Will Be Jaguars is fast and my pre-nighttime read... so Che's next novel is *obviously* going to be my daytime read :)