May 26, 1964
“Year of the Economy”
Dr. Eduardo B. Ordaz Ducungé
Director, Psychiatric Hospital
Havana
Dear Ordaz,
I acknowledge receipt of the journal. Although I am very short of time, the topics look very interesting and I will try to read it.
I am curious about something else: How can 6,300 copies of a specialized journal be published when there are not even that many doctors in Cuba?
Something keeps gnawing away at my mind and it is driving me to the verge of a neuro-economic psychosis: Are the rats using the journal to deepen their understanding of psychiatry or to satisfy their stomachs? Or perhaps each patient has a copy of the publication at his bedside?
At any rate, there are 3,000 copies too many in the run. I beg you to think about this.
Seriously, the journal is good, the size of the run is intolerable. Believe me, because madmen always tell the truth.
A revolutionary greeting,
Patria o muerte
Venceremos
Commander Ernesto Che Guevara