1961 · The Revolutionaries · Werk 1080 von 1.871
A voluntary work brigade on a school building site in Havana on a morning in early summer, a chain of about fifteen men passing concrete blocks hand to hand from a stack at the kerb to the half-built wall of grey concrete blocks, the wall only shoulder high, every man in the chain carrying a block, the men bare-headed or in straw hats, in a variety of plain work shirts, white, pale blue, checked, faded khaki, with rolled sleeves, timber scaffolding lashed at the joints, sand and gravel heaped on the pavement, palms and a low apartment terrace behind, a plain rendered wall to the left with a Cuban flag hanging flat against it, the chain seen from the side and slightly below with the stack of blocks at the left edge of the frame and the wall at the right edge, the third man from the left in the chain is the man, the same size and the same distance from the camera as the men on either side of him, in a plain olive work shirt and trousers and the only black beret in the chain, dark wavy hair reaching his collar below the beret, a concrete block held in both hands as the others hold theirs, his face turned toward the camera as he passes the block on, low morning sun.
Was die Quellen offenlassen: Wie die Baustelle an der Ecke 13 und 4 aussah, zu welcher Tageszeit Guevara dort war, was die Freiwilligen trugen und ob eine Fahne hing, ist nicht überliefert; Baustelle, Kette und Flagge sind typisiert. Die Angaben zum Tag stammen aus kubanischen Staatsquellen. Wie viele Todesurteile in La Cabaña auf Guevara zurückgehen, ist umstritten. Sein Gesicht folgt einem Foto Alberto Kordas von 1961.