# Guevara is named minister of industry in 1961 as a dated planning office, not as proof of later output

Date: 1961

## The fact

In 1961 [Guevara](/people/che-guevara) was named Cuba's minister of industry. The instrument is that planning office, not a unique tonnage series and not the later shortage self-criticism. Che Guevara's documented role is: He took the ministry. Castro appointed. Soviet advisers and Cuban managers share the office. Shortages remain a separate cost row, not a rebate mixed here.

## Context

The shortage row stores missed targets. This stores the dated office. Sharing appointment with Castro is required. The setting of Guevara is named minister of industry in 1961 as a dated planning office, not as proof of later output is the public file around 1961-02-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [industrial-policy-activism](/drivers/industrial-policy-activism) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Che Guevara, minister of industry at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Che-Guevara (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: FRUS / later historical neighbourhood on Cuban industry ministry at https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06 (U.S. Department of State / Office of the Historian). Official carrier: Britannica — Che Guevara, minister of industry (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Che-Guevara; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: FRUS / later historical neighbourhood on Cuban industry ministry (https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06; U.S. Department of State / Office of the Historian).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Che Guevara, minister of industry (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Che-Guevara; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Improving path from Guevara is named minister of industry in 1961 as a dated planning office, not as proof of later output on 1961-02-01. Creating a named industry ministry with a public plan is an industrial-policy path stored as improving intent-and-office; missed targets sit next door. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Guevara is named minister of industry in 1961 as a dated planning office, not as proof of later output under 1961-02-01 for Che Guevara. Established: a sourced public record of Guevara is named minister of industry in 1961 as a dated planning office, not as proof of later output under 1961-02-01.

The attached driver is industrial-policy-activism. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not merge with shortages. Office is not automatic output. Mixed effects of Guevara is named minister of industry in 1961 as a dated planning office, not as proof of later output are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Guevara is named minister of industry in 1961 as a dated planning office, not as proof of later output. Naming Che Guevara does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1961-02-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Che Guevara: https://factrail.ai/people/che-guevara

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism

## Sources

- https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v06
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Che-Guevara

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/che-ministry-1961