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Let's go, ardent prophet of the dawn, along remote and unmarked paths, to liberate the green caiman you so love...

Opening lines of Che Guevara's Canto to Fidel. A poem Guevara presented to Fidel Castro on board the Granma yacht, shortly before arriving in Cuba to foment the Cuban revolution. The green caiman was a metaphor for the reptilian shaped island of Cuba.