What if, during the latter months of the Cuban Revolution, Ernesto Che Guevara had taken a fatal bullet wound, and did not live to see the Batista regime fall (as it did otl)? How does this affect the shape of Cuban politics and foreign relations over the crucial next few years?
Does this affect the dynamic between the surviving leaders of the July 26 movement (Fidel and Raul Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos, and Juan Almeida Bosque)? Now that Raul is the only vocal Leninist of said four, does that affect Fidel’s decision making? Or between them and other actors in the Revolution, like Juan Artime and Jose Quevado, or William Morgan and the DRE? Who would Castro send to the UN, if not Guevara, and would that have any implications?