Letter (1964)

Letter to Mr. Roberto Las Casas

Havana

February 21, 1964

Year of the Economy

Mr. Roberto Las Casas

Rua 3 de Maio

Belem-Pará 1494

Brazil

Dear Compañero,

I am taking this new opportunity of contact between you and our revolution to thank you and your wife for your great kindness.

I wanted to send you a small souvenir of Cuba, but the lack of an appropriate past and the extinction of our Cuban traditions force me to resort to this very modest expression of modern art.

I trust that your wife will appreciate the intention more than its material expression.

With revolutionary greetings,

Homeland or Death!

We will win!

Commander Ernesto Che Guevara

Page 1 of Che Guevara’s Sierra notebook