sin compromiso

Es fascinante la confrontación con la realidad del padre del Che cuando se reúne con su hijo tras seis años de ausencia. En La Habana de las celebraciones tras el triunfo de la Revolución su padre sigue viendo al niño...

"... in his physique, in his expressions, in his happiness... the same boy who had left Buenos Aires one cold July afternoon more than six years before."

...aun cuando el "Che" tuviese una visión de sí mismo muy diferente:

"... "As for my medical career, I can tell you that I deserted it a long time ago. Now I am a fighter who is working in the consolidation of a government. What will become of me? I don't even know in which land I will leave my bones."

En contraste con la emoción sincera de madre e hijo al estar de nuevo juntos en la celebración la distancia que mantiene respecto de su padre en la fotografía sirve a Anderson para aclarar la relación entre ambos:

"Quite apart from their divergent political views, Che had never forgiven his father over his treatment of his mother, Celia; as he confided to close friends, his father had 'spent all the old lady's money and then ditched her".

En definitiva:

"Guevara Lynch was leaving Havana feeling estranged from his son."

La figura del "Che" resulta tan confusa para sus coetáneos como peligrosa para los servicios secretos Norteamericanos:

"By the spring of 1959, it had become pretty obvious to most observers that Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was a highly unusual individual who confounded common stereotypes. He exercised an almost mystical influence on others and had begun to gather a loyal coterie of disciples around him who (...) where followers of 'Che', rather than of any political credo."

"For the Americans, an ideologically committed man so close to Fidel and one who inspired such an unusual degree of loyalty among his soldiers was a dangerous foe indeed."

Los acontecimientos públicos que se suceden en los primeros años tras el éxito revolucionario ponen de manifiesto la pureza de Ernesto Guvara. Mientras los servicios secretos Norteamericanos dejan claro que el "Che" es una figura predominante en la infiltración de elementos comunistas en el gobierno de Fidel el "Che" se percata con desagrado de la estrategia de Fidel de mantener una postura ambigüa entre la Unión Soviética y los Estados Unidos a fin de obtener el mayor beneficio, lo que desencadena una reacción registrada únicamente en su entorno:

"Che gathered his group of young bodyguards and told them: 'Yo sigo viaje'."

La serie de viajes que emprende oficialmente para mejorar las relaciones comerciales con potencias industriales, en especial del bloque comunista, es en realidad una retirada de la primera línea de la acción política en Cuba. Nadie como él mismo para expresar su propia esencia en una carta a su madre:

"I am still the same loner that I used to be, looking for my path without personal help, but now I posess the sense of my historic duty. I have no home, no woman, no children, nor parents, nor brothers and sisters, my friends are my friends as long as they think politically like I do and yet I am content, I feel something in life, not just a powerful internal strength, which I always felt, but also the power to inject others, and an absolutely fantastic sense of my mission which strips me of all fear."

Mientras en Cuba se desarrollaba un culto a la personalidad de Fidel más que un partido comunista el "Che" sublima la imagen de sí mismo como misionero de el ideal comunista que describe un coetáneo:

"... a sort of ideal vision of Socialist Man, who would become a stranger to the mercantile side of things, working for society and not for profit."

La "verdad científica" a la que llegaría el "Che" sería el Marxismo-Leninismo como cura de la enfermedad del hombre y la guerra de guerrillas como el medio para alcanzarlo. Los acontecimientos ocurridos en la Crisis de los Misiles acabarían con la utopía:

"As for Che's illusion that a global fraternity of socialist nations could bring about the demise of capitalism, it was about to be dashed to pieces."

El "Che" se consagrará de modo obsesivo a soportar guerrillas en América Latina en lo que fuera su visión de "guerrilla continental" contra el imperialismo Americano:

"... you have a machine gun stuck in your brain, and you can't imagine any other way to develop an anti-imperialism struggle."

Organiza los Guanacahabibes, campos de rehabilitación comparados a la postre con los gulash soviéticos o el proyecto de Granja Experimental Ciro Redondo en la provincia de Matanzas. Su dureza para con los demás se convierte en lugar común en la mitificación del "Che":

"... throughout his years there, Che stood out in contrast to almost everyone around him. Some Cubans saw this as a disdain for their national culture."

"... there was no longer any doubt that his and Fidel's paths had begun to diverge. Fidel's goal was to consolidate Cuba's economic well-being and his own political survival, and for that he was willing to compromise. Che's mission was to spread the socialist revolution. The time for him to leave Cuba was drawing near."