<P> In mid-January 1959, Guevara went to live at a summer villa in Tarará to recover from a violent asthma attack . While there he started the Tarara Group, a group that debated and formed the new plans for Cuba's social, political, and economic development . In addition, Che began to write his book Guerrilla Warfare while resting at Tarara . In February, the revolutionary government proclaimed Guevara "a Cuban citizen by birth" in recognition of his role in the triumph . When Hilda Gadea arrived in Cuba in late January, Guevara told her that he was involved with another woman, and the two agreed on a divorce, which was finalized on May 22 . On June 2, 1959, he married Aleida March, a Cuban - born member of the 26th of July movement with whom he had been living since late 1958 . Guevara returned to the seaside village of Tarara in June for his honeymoon with Aleida . In total, Guevara had five children from his two marriages . </P> <P> The first major political crisis arose over what to do with the captured Batista officials who had been responsible for the worst of the repression . During the rebellion against Batista's dictatorship, the general command of the rebel army, led by Fidel Castro, introduced into the territories under its control the 19th century penal law commonly known as the Ley de la Sierra (Law of the Sierra). This law included the death penalty for serious crimes, whether perpetrated by the Batista regime or by supporters of the revolution . In 1959, the revolutionary government extended its application to the whole of the republic and to those it considered war criminals, captured and tried after the revolution . According to the Cuban Ministry of Justice, this latter extension was supported by the majority of the population, and followed the same procedure as those in the Nuremberg trials held by the Allies after World War II . </P> <P> To implement a portion of this plan, Castro named Guevara commander of the La Cabaña Fortress prison, for a five - month tenure (January 2 through June 12, 1959). Guevara was charged with purging the Batista army and consolidating victory by exacting "revolutionary justice" against those considered to be traitors, chivatos (informants) or war criminals . Serving in the post as commander of La Cabaña, Guevara reviewed the appeals of those convicted during the revolutionary tribunal process . The tribunals were conducted by 2--3 army officers, an assessor, and a respected local citizen . On some occasions the penalty delivered by the tribunal was death by firing squad . Raúl Gómez Treto, senior legal advisor to the Cuban Ministry of Justice, has argued that the death penalty was justified in order to prevent citizens themselves from taking justice into their own hands, as happened twenty years earlier in the anti-Machado rebellion . Biographers note that in January 1959, the Cuban public was in a "lynching mood", and point to a survey at the time showing 93% public approval for the tribunal process . Moreover, a January 22, 1959, Universal Newsreel broadcast in the United States and narrated by Ed Herlihy, featured Fidel Castro asking an estimated one million Cubans whether they approved of the executions, and was met with a roaring "¡ Si!" (yes). With thousands of Cubans estimated to have been killed at the hands of Batista's collaborators, and many of the accused war criminals sentenced to death accused of torture and physical atrocities, the newly empowered government carried out executions, punctuated by cries from the crowds of "¡ al paredón!" ((to the) wall!), which biographer Jorge Castañeda describes as "without respect for due process". </P> <P>--Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, PBS forum </P>

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