Goa Miners Hoping for Boom After Bust Turn to Guevara Fan
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Christopher Fonseca is decked out in his signature military-green uniform, his back to a giant poster of childhood hero Che Guevara as he fields questions from angry mine workers in his cluttered office.
“I have idolized Che and Fidel (Castro) since my student days,” says Fonseca, 61, the local general secretary of the All India Trade Union Congress, a wing of the Communist Party of India. He sports a trim grey beard and a full head of thick black-grey hair. His uniform is old and faded, but neatly pressed.