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“Along the way, I had the opportunity to pass through the dominions of the United Fruit, convincing me once again of just how terrible these capitalist octopuses are. I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won't rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.”

— Che Guevara

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Source

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Wikiquote: Che Guevara
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Context

Letter to his aunt Beatriz describing what he had seen while traveling through Guatemala (1953); as quoted in Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (1997) by Jon Lee Anderson

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Guevara, Che. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Che Guevara. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Che_Guevara

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