Cuban agit-prop filmmaker Santiago Alvarez produced this radical newsreel within forty-eight hours of Che Guevara's death by special request of Fidel Castro himself. Fellow filmmaker and Alvarez admirer Travis Wilkerson accordingly calls it a pure distillation of the highly unusual conditions of production that spurred Alvarez's urgent cinema. Incorporating Guevara's own speeches and documentary scraps from the Bolivian campaign, Alvarez's resourcefulness is ever astonishing.