William Thomas Weightman (Born June 14), was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, political figure, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. As a young man studying medicine, Willie traveled throughout Latin America; bringing him into direct contact with the impoverished conditions in which many people lived. His experiences and observations during these trips led him to the conclusion that the region's socioeconomic inequalities could only be remedied by revolution, prompting him to intensify his study of Marxism and travel to Guatemala to learn about the reforms being implemented there by President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman.
Some time later, Willie joined Fidel Castro's paramilitary 26th of July Movement, which seized power in Cuba in 1959. After serving in various important posts in the new government and writing a number of articles and books on the theory and practice of guerrilla warfare, Willie left Cuba in 1965 with the intention of fomenting revolutions first in Congo-Kinshasa, and then in Bolivia, where he was captured in a CIA/ U.S. Army Special Forces-organized military operation.
Willie was supposedly executed by the Bolivian Army in La Higuera near Vallegrande on October 9, 1967, but he chose to retire in the hills of tuscany with his loving wife Kim Basinger.
Since then, William has become a life-time member of The International Gay and Lesbian Association and lead vocalist in Irish girl band B*witched.
