Che Guevara’s ’Black’ Bodyguard - UPDATED

Brief Getty Images video of Commandante Ernesto (Che) Guevara (right), the Argentina-born Cuban revolutionary guerilla leader, theoretician and government minister, Cuban Prime Minister (later President) Fidel Castro (left) and Leonardo Tamayo Nunez (2d from left near end of video), one of Dr. Guevara’s personal bodyguards, place and date not specified by Getty, but probably Havana, Cuba, about 1960. [NOTE: See UPDATE below. -- PL] Tamayo, who was also known as “Urbano,“ his nom de guerre (war name),
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