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Che Guevara
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[Che Guevara] fled to Mexico, where he met Fidel Castro who was on his way to Cuba to try and overthrow the Cuban dictator Fugencio Batista. Che Guevara joined Fidel on the ill-fated journey on the ship Granma where half the crew would be wiped out by Batista's army waiting for them on the beaches. Che Guevara and Fidel fled into the Sierra Maestre Mountains where they built up their guerrilla forces. Contrary to popular belief, Che Guevara had no compassion for ordinary Cubans. One time he had an 11 year old boy executed for stealing some food from his -guerrilla detachment. Che Guevara was given command of the second column that captured Santa Clara. Fidel put Che Guevara in charge of Las Cabanas prison in Santa Clara. It was here that Che Guevara executed 381 people . who simply oppo...
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In 1974, SL lost control of the university, but it had already succeeded in creating a "revolutionary consciousness" in the population of Ayacucho.8 Other Latin American communist movements followed Che Guevara 'sfoco method and brought their ideologies to rural areas.9 Guzman's followers were not foreigners or crusading children from the urban middle class, they were a part of the impoverished rural population already. Shining Path could take up the banner of a nationalist movement against foreign intruders and regain widespread popular support.15 On 12 September 1992, Guzman was captured along with several other SL leaders in a raid by DINCOTE (Dirección Contra Terrorismo), an elite group of Peruvian national police that had received extensive support and training from the United Sta...
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Killing Che," Navy SEAL-turned-screenwriter Chuck Pfarrer's first fiction book, is a hugely ambitious historical novel. Its goal: to build a convincing alternative universe incorporating the events surrounding the October 1967 death of one of the great icons of the left, Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Guevara was wounded by Bolivian Army Rangers on October 8 and brought to the tiny village of La Higuera. There, in the schoolhouse, he was executed on orders from the Bolivian high command, just after 1 p.m. local time on the ninth. Although the events surrounding the real-life hunt for Che and his guerrillas are pretty straightforward, Mr. Pfarrer engages in some high-concept geopolitics to make things more dramatic. He fictionalizes Guevara's demise as the result of a backchannel deal between t...
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The revolutionary activity of Ernesto Guevara is well known in Latin America and his influence as a guerrilla tactician is far-reaching. He is also a known symbol of armed struggle. His methods have redefined armed struggle and have given new possibilities for revolutions. Guevara's activities infused a new vigor to the tradition of militant revolt in Latin America already well-developed during his time.
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The Motorcycle Diaries is a book about a journey; it's a book about self-discovery, about environmentalism, about politics, but more than anything else, it's a book about the teenager that became Ernesto "Che" Guevara. I say "became" because the book is not written like the manifesto of a revolutionary. It is composed like the diary of a young man, developing his ideas about life, frustrated with the world, criticizing it while he finds his place in it. The best description of the novel comes from the text of the book itself, Che's own words about Latin America. It has a "madhouse museum beauty" but it is a "beauty without grace. The book was written in the 1950s, and the generous hospitality showered on Guevara as he travels penniless through Latin America speaks to this, as well as t...
