Ernesto Che Guevara

Che Guevara's passion for public health contributed to a legacy of social medicine in Latin America, and this book explores and reveals his thoughts on the role of a doctor. Features an introduction by Aleida Guevara March, MD, a Cuban physician who is the eldest daughter of four children born to Ernesto "Che" Guevara and his second wife, Aleida March Before Ernesto Che Guevara became "Che," before he traveled Latin America, before he joined Fidel in Cuba, he was a medical student. In 1956 he wrote to his mother before leaving to go and join the guerilla expedition to Cuba: "My path seems to be slowly but surely diverging from that of clinical medicine, but not so far that I have lost my nostalgia for hospitals. What I told you about the professorship in physiology was a lie, but not a big one. It was a lie because I never planned to accept it, but the offer was real and there was a strong possibility that they were going to give it to me, as I had an interview and everything. Anyway, that's all history. Saint Carlos Karl Marx] has made a new recruit." He had started a book on the role of the doctor in Latin America, a work he fully intended to continue writing. It remained incomplete at the time of his death in Bolivia at the age of thirty-nine, just eleven years later. Antes de que Ernesto Che Guevara se convirtiera en el "Che", antes de viajar por Am rica Latina, antes de unirse a Fidel en Cuba, era estudiante de medicina. Antes de partir para unirse a la expedici n guerrillera a Cuba en 1956, Che escribi a su madre: "Mi camino parece desviarse lentamente pero seguramente de la medicina cl nica, pero no tanto como para perder la nostalgia de los hospitales. Lo que te dije de la c tedra de fisiolog a era mentira, pero no muy grande ... En fin, eso ya es historia. San Carlos Karl Marx] ha hecho un nuevo fichaje." Hab a empezado a trabajar en una obra sobre el papel del m dico en Am rica Latina, un libro que segu a sin completar en el momento de su muerte en Bolivia a la edad de treinta y nueve a os, s lo once a os despu s.

Che Guevara's definitive account of the Cuban revolutionary war, in an updated edition. Includes photos and new foreword by Aleida Guevara--Che's eldest daughter who is a physician. There is no better account of the Cuban revolutionary war than this little book by guerilla leader Che Guevara. Assembled from his campaign diary, first published in 1963, later corrected and edited by Che, and published here finally in an authoritative edition that includes not only his corrections, but also a number of short essays and articles published just after the revolution's triumph. As always, Che's writing is intimate, searching, and self-critical. Having initially joined the Cuban expedition as troop doctor, Che describes his dilemma in having to choose between a backpack of medicines and a box of ammunition (he chose the box of ammunition). In another justly famous chapter of the book, "The Murdered Puppy," Che describes how he had to give the order to have a dog killed. Throughout this book, the sweep of history and matters of life and death are rendered in small and intimate ways.

A biography of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels by Che Guevara, revealing Che's fervent interest in studying their lives and writing. Che Guevara wrote this biographical introduction to Marx and Engels after his 1965 mission to Africa. He studied the writing of the German revolutionaries intensively, and in his travels he immersed himself in the classic works of Marxism. He sought to draw lessons and inspiration from Marx and Engels, and noted: "The Cuban Revolution takes up Marx at the point where he put aside science to pick up his revolutionary rifle." Many of Che's comments about Marx might also refer to Che himself, such as his observation: "Such a humane man whose capacity for affection extended to all those suffering throughout the world, offering a message of committed struggle and indomitable optimism, has been distorted by history and turned into a stone idol." With his tremendous grasp of theory and his own practical experience, Che observes Marx's evolution through his own view of radical change in Cuba, considering how it might apply to other countries after they achieve their definitive liberation from colonialism.

Che Guevara's classic text on revolutionary tactics and strategy. Since Guerrilla Warfare was first published in 1961, it has joined the canon of classic military literature, consulted by revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries alike. In this book, Che Guevara outlines the lessons he learned as a guerrilla soldier in the Cuban revolution and explains how a small group of dedicated fighters grew in strength with the support of the Cuban people, overcoming the odds to vanquish the US-backed dictator's army and overthrow the dictatorship. Guerrilla Warfare is both an insightful account of one of the decisive revolutionary movements of the twentieth century and a timeless resource for freedom fighters the world over. This edition includes Che's corrections and his suggestions for further revisions to the text--revisions his murder in 1967 prevented him from making.

The journal of a young Argentine's second trip through Latin America, revealing the emergence of a committed revolutionary now known as Che. This sequel to The Motorcycle Diaries includes letters, poetry, and journalism that document young Ernesto Guevara's second Latin American journey following his graduation from medical school in 1953. It reveals how the young Argentine is transformed into a militant revolutionary, ready to commit himself to the guerrilla struggle Fidel Castro and his compa eros are about to launch in Cuba against the dictatorship of General Fulgencio Batista. After traveling through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Central America, Ernesto witnesses the 1954 US-inspired coup in Guatemala, which has a profound effect on his political awareness. He flees to Mexico where he encounters Fidel Castro, marking the beginning of a political partnership that profoundly changes the world and Che himself. Includes a foreword by Alberto Granado, Che's companion on his first adventures in Latin America on a vintage Norton motorcycle, and features poems written by young Ernesto inspired by his experiences along with facsimiles of pages from his diary.

This classic anthology on Latin America shows the Argentine-born revolutionary's cultural depth, rigorous intellect, and intense emotional engagement with a continent and its people. In a letter to his mother in 1954, a young Ernesto Guevara wrote, "The Americas will be the theater of my adventures in a way that is much more significant than I would have believed." In The Awakening of Latin America we have the story of those adventures, charting Che's evolution from an impressionable young medical student to the "heroic guerrilla," assassinated in cold blood in Bolivia. Spanning seventeen years, this anthology draws on from his family's personal archives and offers the best of Che's writing: examples of his journalism, essays, speeches, letters, and even poems. As Che documents his early travels through Latin America, his involvement in the Guatemalan and Cuban revolutions, and his rise to international prominence under Fidel Castro, we see how his fervent commitment to social justice shaped and was shaped by the continent he called home.

Three speeches on corporate globalism and imperialism by one of the most widely known guerilla fighters, political theorists, and organizers, Che Guevara. In this collection of three speeches, Ernesto Che Guevara offers a revolutionary view of a world in which human solidarity and understanding replace imperialist agression and exploitation. First, in a sharp speech given in Algeria on February 24, 1965 at the Afro-Asia Economic Seminar, Che speaks about the nature of capitalism and the revolutionary struggle that would open the way for a new, socialist society. Guevara's 1965 essay, Socialism and Man in Cuba, is a milestone in twentieth-century emancipatory social thought. Finally, "Message to the Tricontinental" is one of Che's more well-known works, which outlines the tactics and strategies that should be followed in revolutionary struggle. This collection of writings merges Che's philosophy, politics, and economics in his all encompassing, coherent revolutionary vision. His ideas and his struggle strike a chord in the current search for global justice.

En abril de 1965, el Che Guevara se marcha de La Habana al Congo para dirigir a 200 veteranos cubanos que asisten al movimiento de liberaci n africana contra los colonialistas belgas, cuatro a os despu s del asesinato del presidente socialista democr ticamente electo, Patrice Lumumba. Porque el diario trata el admitido fracaso del Che, examina cada detalle doloroso de lo sucedido para poder extraer ense anzas constructivas para futuros movimientos guerrilleros. nico entre sus libros, Pasajes de la Guerra Revolucionaria: Congo es un retrato del Che brutalmente honesto que ilustra su capacidad como cuentista; en sus relatos de los fascinantes episodios de conflicto armado de la guerrilla no hay hesitaci n, endulzamiento o jerga. Algunos lo consideran el mejor libro del Che, tambi n es uno de los pocos que edit para la publicaci n luego de escribirlo.

La guerra de guerrillas fue publicado en Cuba en 1960. Es un manual que mezcla la teor a guevarista del foquismo con la experiencia guerrillera cubana. Pretendi que los grupos armados insurgentes marxistas encontrasen ense anzas aplicables los territorios en que operasen (Am rica Latina, frica o Asia). El libro fue traducido al ingl s y el portugu s por la CIA y fue utilizado por las fuerzas contrainsurgentes de la Escuela de las Am ricas. El Che Guevara afirm que La guerra de guerrillas era un m todo til contra gobiernos dictatoriales aunque recomend agotar antes las posibilidades de lucha legal. Guevara dedic este libro a la memoria de Camilo Cienfuegos.

El socialismo y el hombre en Cuba es una carta enviada por Ernesto Che Guevara a Carlos Quijano, director del Semanario Marcha. Se public el 12 de marzo de 1965, bajo el t tulo Desde Argelia, para Marcha, La Revoluci n Cubana Hoy. Carlos Quijano (abogado, pol tico y ensayista, fundador y director del mencionado semanario uruguayo, naci en Montevideo el 21 de marzo de 1900 y muri en M xico el 10 de junio de 1984). En la edici n original Quijano a adi la siguiente nota: Che Guevara envi esta carta a Marcha desde Argelia. Este documento es de la m s significativa importancia, especialmente en aras de entender el objetivo y la meta de la Revoluci n cubana, visto por uno de los principales actores en el proceso. Las tesis presentadas son un intento por provocar debate y, al mismo tiempo, ofrecer una nueva perspectiva sobre una de las presentes fundamentaciones del pensamiento socialista. El 5 de noviembre de 1965, volvi a publicarse El socialismo y el hombre en Cuba y se present con el r tulo de exclusiva: una nota especial del Che Guevara. Se explicaba que los lectores de Marcha en Argentina no pudieron leer la publicaci n original. La semana en que sta apareci por primera vez, la revista se prohibi en Buenos Aires.

Esta nueva edici n comentada del Diario de Bolivia, a cargo de su nieto Canek S nchez Guevara, contiene nuevas reflexiones sobre la ltima etapa de la vida del Che y aclara al m ximo las identidades de los implicados en su guerrilla y las situaciones que provocaron aquellos acontecimientos. Esta edici n tiene cerca de 400 notas al pie con abundante informaci n hist rica, fragmentos de los diarios de otros guerrilleros, declaraciones de ex agentes de la CIA y de las fuerzas armadas bolivianas y un mapa que resume la ruta del Che en Bolivia. Tal vez sorprenda que la imagen m s difundida del siglo XX no represente a una estrella de rock, o de Hollywood y mucho menos un hombre de negocios o un deportista de xito. Tampoco a un poeta, un pintor, o un cient fico. Ernesto Che Guevara no dirigi el destino de una potencia mundial y su imagen no fue resultado de una campa a medi tica en sentido estricto, aunque podr a decirse que ella es en s misma una campa a con un mensaje reconocible. El Che es el hombre rebelde por excelencia pero l mismo fue ministro y banquero y dirigi juicios sumar simos y ejecuciones. Tambi n fue un icono del voluntarismo, expresi n m xima (o m nima, seg n quiera verse) de la acci n revolucionaria y eje de la construcci n de una sociedad nueva.

Collected for the first time, here are Guevara's letters, the vast majority never-before published in English. "The powerful of the earth should take heed: deep inside that T-shirt where we have tried to trap him, the eyes of Che Guevara are still burning with impatience." --Ariel Dorfman Ernesto Che Guevara was a voyager--and thus a letter writer--for his entire adult life. The letters collected here range from letters home during his Motorcycle Diaries trip, to the long letter to Fidel after the success of the Cuban revolution in early 1959, from the most personal to the intensely political, revealing someone who not only thought deeply about everything he encountered, but for whom the process of social transformation was a constant companion from his youth until shortly before his death. His letters give us Che the son, the friend, the lover, the guerilla fighter, the political leader, the philosopher, the poet. Che in these letters is often playful, funny, sometimes sarcastic, and deeply affectionate. His life was short, and these twenty years, from when he was 19 until days before his death, show it was also incredibly rich and full. As his daughter Aleida Guevara, also a doctor like her father, writes, "When you write a speech, you pay attention to the language, the punctuation and so on. But in a letter to a friend or a member of your family, you don't worry about those things. It is you speaking, in your authentic voice. That's what I like about these letters; they show who Che really was and how he thought. This is the true political testimony of my father." This book is available in a Spanish language edition, Te abraza con todo fervor revolucionario. "Che is not only an intellectual, he was the most complete human being of our age." --Jean Paul Sartre "In these present times, when for many ethics and other profound moral values are seen to be so easily bought and sold, the example of Che Guevara takes on an even greater dimension." --Rigoberta Menchu