I have read with astonishment the libel about Che Guevara (?A modern saint and sinner?, Oct 16) that your newspaper reproduced from The Economist. Whenever there is time for commemoration or paying homage for such a great leader and ?the most complete human being of our age?, as the famous intellectual Jean Paul Sartre used to call him, the enemies of this extraordinary man who lived and died by his ideals start spreading campaigns and disinformation propaganda that are not substantiated by facts.
It is a pity that your newspaper has not made an effort to contribute with its own research on the relation that Che Guevara had with India, for whose people he expressed warm words of friendship, as other newspapers as Jansatta highlighted recently, and has just considered it necessary to cut and paste an article of dubious seriousness. Your newspaper cannot escape the fact that crores of people in India, irrespective of political creed or social background, have a special admiration for this icon of the 20th century. I should quote what he wrote after visiting India in the same year of the triumph of the Revolution, 1959: ?Nehru welcomed us with the friendly familiarity of a patriarchal grandfather, but with noble interest for the concerns and struggles of the Cuban people and made recommendations of extraordinary value, while showing samples of an unconditional affection towards our cause.?
I, as well as all of the Cuban people, share the view of Che Guevara when he categorically expressed: ?Indeed, Cuba and India are brothers, as all countries of the world should be in this hour of nuclear disintegration and inter space missiles.?
?Miguel ?ngel Ram?rez Ramos, Ambassador of Cuba