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"He met Fidel Castro in Mexico, helped established communism in Cuba in 1959, and held important posts in the Castro government. . . . In 1960 Guevara left Cuba in an unsuccessful attempt to export his brand of communism to the Congo. He turned to South America in 1966. With a small band of guerrilla fighters, he established a training camp in the Nancahuazu region of Bolivia, later moving to the Vallegrande area. Recruits failed to come, however." [Furtado: 1001 Days]