Cuban Mysteries It is very hard to tell what Fidel
Castro thinks he's doing in releasing so many of his country- men to the United States. It was a genuine enough move and the United States could hardly have declined to take them: but what if the flow goes on and on? There will be problems of accom- modation for Florida, and humiliation for Fidel. The Cuban authorities can hardly start putting up a wall.
So is it equally hard to guess what has become of Castro's once closest confidant, 'ow Guevara. The latest Cuban refugees are apparently con- vinced that he is dead since his wife wore mourn- ing clothes and wept when Castro read out Che's famous letter of withdrawal. But there is a big search going on for him in Peru, and last week he was (erroneously) reported arrested in Buenos Aires. Someone, however, has dug up a revealing quotation from a speech Che made four years ago: 'In a few years' time it will be our duty to retire to our winter quarters and let the younger generation take over . . . the'difficulties we have had to face will have made us old and worn out. Your task will be to forget us as something in the past.' It is not often that a politician fulfils such a promise but this one seems to have the ring of truth. Che, I guess, is carrying on the revolution elsewhere.
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