“There are no borders in this struggle to the death.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

Afro-Asian Conference (1965)
Context: There are no borders in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, because a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory, just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.

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Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928–1967

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