When Che Guevara assumed leadership responsibilities in the Cuban economy in the fall of 1959, he was confronted with several interrelated challenges. While the Cuban revolution was declared to be a socialist revolution by Fidel Castro in April of 1961, the revolution was simultaneously a revolution for national sovereignty, and in this sense, was the culminationof the independence movement led by Jose Marti who died in battle 1895. Guevara (2093a:100) understood that national sovereignty and economic sovereignty are interdependent. In order to have one, you must have the other.