It is a fact that he was a professional in everything, because he really undertook everything with an "artist's delight."

His first and more professional contact with the press was in Mexico, when he worked as a photographer for the Agencia Latina, based in Buenos Aires during the Peronist period. That Latin Americanist dream obsessed him all his life. It could be said that he realized it in Cuba with Prensa Latina.

Destiny had it that the few journalists and very few Latin Americans who were able to go to the Sierra Maestra to do stories on the Rebel Army included another dreamer by the name of Jorge Ricardo Masetti. I said to write an article, because fortunately there were more reporters serving as soldiers in the Sierra Maestra - and in the cities and plains - than those who could get up there exclusively as journalists. Che himself was a journalist there, with the daily El Cubano Libre and Radio Rebelde, both of which he founded.

Fidel, Che and Masetti organized the news agency Prensa Latina S.A., whose first editor, logically, was Masetti. Its president was a Mexican entrepreneur, and its greatest inspiration, although he didn't figure in any way, was Che Guevara, who often visited the agency. He spent many hours talking with Masetti, among other things, on what was happening in the press and the agency's progress. He knew the correspondents or those aspiring to be correspondents.

Apart from that, Che was an excellent feature writer. The first and best-known work on the Sierra Maestra was his book Guerra de Guerrillas (Guerrilla Warfare). And in those early years of the Revolution, his articles in Verde Olivo, under the pseudonym "El Francotirador" (The Sharpshooter), were frequent. Along with many labors he undertook simultaneously, he was instruction head of the Rebel Army and, in this capacity, worked directly with the magazine. He also wrote for the daily Combate, organ of the Revolutionary Directorate, and for Hoy, the Popular Socialist Party newspaper.

In spite of his aura of a difficult, inaccessible personality, many journalists can testify that among the revolutionary leaders, he was surpassed only by Fidel in terms of attention; in his own style, like when he made us participate in productive work before giving us information.

I personally recall with deep pleasure that the first really significant interview I did after the triumph of the Revolution was precisely with Che in his office in La Cabaña (the old fort housing the Rebel Army). I had met him a few days previously, when I visited him with Commander Guillermo Jiménez, assistant editor of Combate, and it was Che who introduced us to Rogelio Acevedo, the then beardless, long-haired captain. It's a fact that one was predisposed in favor of Che. And that feeling, far from being deceptive at close quarters, was impressive.

When right-wing elements attempted to suppress the daily Combate which, unexpectedly, demonstrated a clear left-wing position - far more so than Revolution, edited by Carlos Franqui - we informed him that they didn't want to use Combate for state advertising. Che called Guillermo Jiménez, René Anillo and myself into his office at midnight, at the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA), which Che also headed, and we talked there for a long time.
A few days later, the boycott of Combate ended, which gave faith to the extent of his attentiveness.