In adoring Che Guevara the radical chic of the Sixties divorced him from his milieu which was the Cuban Revolution. The daily unglamorous tasks of keeping the Revolution alive, to feed the citizens, clothe them and nurse them, to meet the expectation that a socialist revolution is not just about guns and about fi ghting American power, but about achieving prosperity, more than capitalism can promise for the mass of the people. This is the boring task of the Revolutionary.