This is the Cuzco asking you to pull on your armor and, mounted on the ample back of a powerful horse, cleave a path through the defenseless flesh of a naked Indian flock whose human wall collapses and disappears beneath the four hooves of the galloping beast.

Self Portrait Che Guevara (Ocean, 2004). Also in: The Awakening of Latin America: A Classic Anthology of Che Guevara's Writing on Latin America (Ocean Press, 2013)