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Title Card: In 1960 Granado was invited to live and work in Cuba. The invitation came from his old friend Fuser, now "Comandante" Ernesto Che Guevara, one of the most prominent and inspiring leaders of the Cuban Revolution. Che went on to fight for his ideals in the Congo and Bolivia where he was captured, and with the support of the CIA, murdered in October, 1967.
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Silvia (Peru): What is wrong with you?
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: I was born with bad lungs.
Silvia (Peru): What a shame!
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: No, is not that bad. Thanks to that i skipped the military service, I didn't have to shine anyone boots.
Silvia (Peru): Is that why you became a doctor? Because you are sick?
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Is possible.The first word i learned was injection. I want to be useful in some way.
Silvia (Peru): You are wasting your time.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Why?
Silvia (Peru): This life is hell.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Yes, it's really fucked up, but we have to fight for every breath and tell Death to fuck off.
Jorge Rodríguez Paz
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