Jon Lee Anderson

And at that point, I remember...

reading his diary where he resolved that he was going to be now a marxist leninist and i remember thinking to myself no no don't don't you know kind of don't go there don't don't be so intransigent keep your mind open please you know because i very much felt that he was a kindred spirit or i felt a great affinity for this young rebellious idealistic intrepid guy who was

you know, seeking out adventure, but also meaning in the world.

And to see him become small-minded doctrinaire, intransigent, disappointed me.

And he remained like that for a while.

But when he left Cuba again, at the end of his life, he was evolving again.

In the few years he was a public figure,

He learned enough to be disappointed privately in what he saw the Soviet Union had become and was trying to do in Cuba.

It didn't change him from wanting to be a socialist, but he was becoming more realistic again.

I often think, he died at the age of 39.

I wonder what would have happened if Che had lived another 10 years.

He was quite a unique figure.

Thanks so much, Terri.

Diaz-Canel is the hand-picked successor to Raul Castro.

He's a party apparatchik.

He was a provincial party chief.

And he has served...

how shall I put this, creditably as the face of the ongoing regime.

And he's not had an easy time of it.

There's been, you know, as we know, a huge economic downturn in Cuba, etc.