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“... Ernesto Guevara de la Serna found what his life was for in July 1955, in Mexico City. It was there, at the age of 27, that he met Raúl Castro, who introduced him to his older brother, Fidel. The Argentine doctor joined a motley band of Cuban expeditionaries in the near-suicidal landing (or sinking) of the Granma in a mangrove swamp at the eastern end of the island ...”

“... I met Che Guevara in November 1963 at a reception in the gardens of the Soviet Embassy in Havana, one of those diplomatic occasions held every year to celebrate the anniversary of the October Revolution. He strode in after midnight, accompanied by a coterie of friends, bodyguards and hangers-on, wearing his trademark black beret, his shirt open to the waist ...”

“... furious people, found it closed because of bank holiday. Without warning, went to call on Méraud Guevara, rue de Lille behind the museum. Found her in bed in her old room, nothing in the apartment changed; rather deaf and vague but pleased, I think, to see us. Went on to see a new film, Uranos, in Montparnasse. Supper at the Select. Wednesday 2: Christine ...”

“... that the radicalisation of the Cuban Revolution had a Guatemalan connection. In 1953, Ernesto Guevara had moved to Guatemala City to witness the unfolding of land reform and, as he put it in a letter home, to ‘perfect himself’. It was Guatemalans who nicknamed him ‘Che’, after the Argentinian verbal tic that means, roughly, ‘hey, you’. Che ...”