Giuseppe

I was born in Argentina. i was Trained as a physician at the Univ. of Buenos Aires, and took part in riots against the dictator Juan Perón in Argentina,t hen joined agitators in Bolivia, and worked in a leper colony. In 1953 I went to Guatemala, & joined the leftist regime of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, and when Arbenz was overthrown I fled to Mexico, where I met Fidel Castro and other Cuban rebels. I then became Castro's chief lieutenant soon after the rebel invasion of Cuba in 1956, in which I proved to be a resourceful guerrilla leader. As president of the national bank after the fall of Fulgencio Batista I was instrumental in cutting Cuba's traditional ties with the United States and in directing the flow of trade to the Communist bloc. I served as minister of industry. At heart a revolutionary rather than an administrator, I left Cuba in 1965 to foster revolutionary activity in the Congo and other countries. In 1967, directing an ineffective guerrilla movement in Bolivia, I was wounded, captured, and executed by government troops.