Che Guevara, 1963

摘要

ON 31 DECEMBER 1962, the Swiss photojournalist Rene Burri was sitting down to a New Year's Eve dinner with his family when the phone rang. The caller was from the Magnum agency. Burri was told that he had to pack his bags immediately for an assignment in Cuba. Two days later he arrived in the capital, Havana. Cuba had been a focus of world attention since the revolutionary communist Fidel Castro became the country's Prime Minister in 1959. He took control with popular support after ousting the American-backed military dictator Fulgencio Batista. The growing tension between Cuba and the USA intensified in October 1962 when Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missile sites were placed on the island.