1967: Fidel doesn't give up Che?(USSR withdraws support for Castro)

I read an article a couple years ago that by 1966/1967 the leadership of the USSR feelt, that Che and his activities in South America had become a liability for the USSR and thusly the Kremlin gave Fidel a ultimatum: "Either you give up Che or we will look the other way and allow the the US to invade Cuba.

In OTL Fidel caved gave Che's position in Bolivia to KGB who relayed it to the US and the rest is history.

So what if Fidel hadn't given up Che? And the US eventhough engaged in Vietnam at the time, invaded Cuba with a claim for instance that : Castro was being the murder of JFK".
Prior to this all Sovjet troops have been withdrawn from the Island, and Fidel and his amigos are captured and brought to the US.
What would the aftermath of this have been?

If LBJ arrested the murderer of JFK then maybe he runs for a second term? :D Since the Liberal Elite of the time loved JFK and saw him as their King Arthur maybe they would suddenly forgive LBJ policy in Vietnam?
 

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I read an article a couple years ago that by 1966/1967 the leadership the USSR feelt that Che and his activities in South America had become a liability for the USSR and thusly the Kremlin gave Fidel a ultimatum: "Either you give up Che or we will look allow the the US to invade Cuba.

In OTL Fidel caved gave Che position in Bolivia to KGB which relayed it to the US and the rest is history.


I'll lay odds that this story came from a Trotskyist source. :)

The Bolivian army knew Che's whereabouts much better than Fidel did, so this story falls down on practicalities. Che would have only been able to contact Cuba through Bolivian Communist Party couriers, he had no other means of telling Fidel where he was.

The CIA stopped the insurgency so quickly precisely because it was isolated and lacked the support of the Bolivian peasants, and the Bolivian Communist Party.
 
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