May 23, 1963
“Year of Organization”
Dr. Aleida Coto Martínez
Asst. Director of Primary Regional Education
Puerto Regla — Guanabacoa
Ministry of Education
City
Dear Compañera,
Thank you for your letter.
Sometimes we revolutionaries are lonely. Even our children look on us as strangers. They see less of us than of the soldier on sentry duty, whom they call “uncle.”
The compositions you sent me took me back for a moment to the composition that we wrote for a president’s visit to our town, when I was in the second or third grade. The difference between what those children expressed and what these children of today’s revolution express makes us confident of the future.
A revolutionary greeting,
Patria o muerte
Venceremos
Commander Ernesto Che Guevara