Anarchy in Chile

Chile’s Che Guevara?

COMANDANTE PEPE is DO myth. He is very much alive, standing before us, pistol and knife in his belt, ready for action. Black boots, black leather jacket, black Andalusian hat, very black hair, a mustache and brown eyes that twinkle mischievously in a light-complexioned, freckled face. He has just finished telling us that the confrontation with the bourgeois opposition is inevitable. “Up to now the rich have abused the poor … a minority has exploited the many. … It is time for the rich to pay . . .” And so on. A man President Allende’s government will have to contend with—and yet, two days after Comandante Pepe talked with us, Jacques Chonchol, Minister of Agriculture in the Allende government, gave a press interview in which he insisted that Pepe didn’t exist.

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Chile’s Che Guevara?

COMANDANTE PEPE is DO myth. He is very much alive, standing before us, pistol and knife in his belt, ready for action. Black boots, black leather jacket, black Andalusian hat, very black hair, a mustache and brown eyes that twinkle mischievously in a light-complexioned, freckled face. He has just finished telling us that the confrontation with the bourgeois opposition is inevitable. “Up to now the rich have abused the poor … a minority has exploited the many. … It is time for the rich to pay . . .” And so on. A man President Allende’s government will have to contend with—and yet, two days after Comandante Pepe talked with us, Jacques Chonchol, Minister of Agriculture in the Allende government, gave a press interview in which he insisted that Pepe didn’t exist.