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In his delight, he made Mr Matos comandante of the ninth column and, in January 1959, appointed him military governor of rich Camagüey province.

Ortega's transformation from the uniformed, podium-pounding comandante of Nicaragua's 1979 revolution into a sobersided, tweed-suited diplomat abroad was deliberate.

Comandante, of course, offers him another chance to expose some raw nerves at home, and for good measure he has just completed a similar film about Yasser Arafat.

Joaquín Villalobos, who was the leading comandante of the People's Revolutionary Army (or E.R.P ., the dominant guerrilla group in Morazán, told me flatly during an interview last year in his headquarters in San Salvador that the people of El Mozote "would not support us" -- only to concede twenty minutes later that his fighters had, at least on some occasions, bought supplies in the hamlet.

"Viva Cristo Rey," ("Long Live Christ the King") shouts Mr Morin, silver-buttoned comandante of the group, as the riders set off on a three-day pilgrimage to the 23-metre (75-foot) statue of Cristo Rey, high on a hill in the very centre of Mexico.

D'Annunzio then proclaimed himself dictator, or Il Comandante, of the "Italian Regency of Carnaro". D'Annunzio's Fiume experiment was short-lived, and he never espoused a coherent ideology beyond Dannunzianism.

The man who three years later would be dubbed by Time Magazine: "Castro's brain", at this point was promoted by Fidel Castro to Comandante (commander) of a second army column.

Much of the fascination of Comandante thus comes from his increasingly clumsy efforts to establish a kind of locker-room banter with Castro.

"That's the big question now: What are we going to do after October, when the money runs out?" The new station will keep the name of the old one, Comandante Ferraz in honor of a Navy oceanographer and will be located at the exact same spot, only 900 kilometers from South America, which is just about the nearest point between the two continents.

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He is in Edinburgh to launch the documentary film he has made about Castro's Cuba, Comandante, the result of an unprecedented three days of interviews with the dictator.