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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." [1001 Days]