La Coubre explosion sold to a shipping company in Cyprus and renamed "Barbara". Alberto Korda took photos at the memorial service for victims of the "La Coubre" explosion, including "Guerrillero Heroico", which has become an iconic image of Che Guevara. La Coubre explosion The French freighter La Coubre () exploded in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, on 4 March 1960 while it was unloading 76 tons of munitions. Casualties may have been as high as 100, and many more were injured. Fidel Castro charged it was an act of sabotage on the part of the United States, which denied any involvement. Unloading explosive
Rade Korda Rade Korda Rade Korda (), or Rade Kordić, was a Montenegrin Serb gendarmerie sergeant and Chetnik commander ("vojvoda", војвода) in the Bijelo Polje region (present-day Montenegro) in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II. After the Sandžak Muslim militia burned houses of Orthodox Christian villagers in Godiljeva during the July 1941 uprising in Montenegro, Korda became involved in a struggle with Muslims. He became an influential Chetnik commander in the region of Bijelo Polje and Sjenica, which opposed the Chetniks' anticommunist policy. Korda was nominally under the Chetnik command from Nova Varoš and Major Glišić until 1943 (when he came under