'Remembering Che - The story of a great legend and a great love'

"And we will continue together until the Road Vanishes"...from a poem weritten by Che Guevara to his wife Aleida March.

I'm reading a book about the love and adventures shared by Aleida March and Che Guevara until his death in Octber 1967.  She has just recently written their story. Since his death, she has published his memoirs and diairies and other works about him by other writers.  She has been the long time director of the Che Guevara studies Center in Havana.

This book describes the character of Che Guevara known to few although many have claimed knowledge and insight into his passions. I was attracted to read this book because I knew so little and had heard so much about Aleida's importance to, not only the legacy of Che, but also of the Cuban revolution, past and present.

This woman, a teacher with a camposino backround, was  active in the underground in a province in central Cuba when she was asked by other members of that underground to smuggle  money and ducoments to the guerrillas as they approached central Cuba from the Sierra Maestra.  She met and was impressed with the already famous Argentinian Che (Ernesto) Guevara.  He also was impressed with her on first sight, but later, in a letter, he wrote that when he first saw her, he just thought of her as a cute, chubby little school teacher.  He was, however, amazed when he saw scars on her waist from the tape used to fasten a container, holding smuggled money and documents to her body.  It was some time before each of them recognized that their attraction was more than just superficial.  They fell deeply in love and shared their revolutionary passion and their passion for each other.

I reccommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good love story set in a frame of danger, rebellion and intrigue.