Letter to Mar?a Rosario Guevara (1964)

to Mar?a Rosario Guevara

In 1964, in reply to a letter from a certain Se?ora Mar?a Rosario Guevara from Casablanca asking of his origins, Che wrote:

"Comrade! To put it bluntly, I don't know what part of Spain my ancestors come from. It was so long ago that they took leave of our 'ancestral home' dressed in their 'birthday suits'. And I don't go around in the same manner simply because it's not especially comfortable. I don't think that we're close relatives, but if you are capable of trembling with indignation every time an injustice is committed in this world, then we are comrades-and that is more important.