Arguably the most fascinating character in Graham Greene’s Getting to Know the General: The Story of an Involvement is not the General, Omar Torrijos Herrera, but Sergeant Chuchú , alias José de Jesús Martínez, ex-Professor of Marxist Philosophy at Panama University and a poet, playwright, pilot and mathematician to boot! Chuchú also wrote his own memoir of Torrijos. Now a long-time friend of the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust, Dr Ramón Rami-Porta (pictured below), has read the Spanish-language text and produced a valuable and interesting summary of the cross-references to Greene in the book.
