Ernesto “Ché” Guevara
Born June 14, 1928 Rosario, Argentina Died October 9, 1967 La Higuera, Bolivia
Cuban revolutionary and medical doctor
Ernesto “Ché” Guevar...
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Ernesto Guevara (1928-1967) was an Argentinian revolutionary, guerrilla theoretician, and the trusted adviser of Cuban premier Fidel Castro.Ernesto Guevara was born on June 14, 1928, in Rosario. Of Sp...
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In the following excerpt, Berguist probes Guevara's views on Marxism, world politics, and social reform in Cuba.
[Berguist]: Many early Castro supporters certainly didn't have today...
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A diplomat, educator, editor, and author, Harvey was known as an authority on Soviet affairs and East European trade. In the following excerpt from an essay written in early 1969, he briefly discusses...
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Mallin is the author of several books on Cuba and the Revolution, as well as works on Latin American and Caribbean politics. In the following excerpt, originally written in January 1969, he discusses ...
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Born in New Zealand, Minogue is an educator and critic who writes and lectures on issues related to political science. In the following excerpt, he articulates the principal tenets of Guevara's...
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A leader of the Cuban Revolution and the current prime minister of Cuba, Castro considered Guevara an outstanding revolutionary leader and intellectual mentor. In the following essay, originally deliv...
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Capouya is an American educator, editor, critic, and translator. In the following excerpt, he reviews Guevara's personal account of the Cuban revolution, focusing on Reminiscences of the Cuban ...
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In the following review, Gall analyzes several works by Guevara, tracing the development of his ideological position as revealed in his political essays.
The capture and murder last October in Boli...
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Che playing golf with Fidel Castro.
Sokolov is a critic, novelist, and author of recipe and cooking books. In the following review, Sokolov offers a mixed assessment of Venceremos!
Even before h...
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In the following mixed review of Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War, the critic praises the volume's candor and humor but questions its value as an historical document.
When the hi...
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In the following essay, the critic examines Guevara's writing habits as well as the focus and publication history of his diaries.
Since his death in a squalid hamlet in the jungled mountains...
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Lockwood is a photojournalist, editor, and author of a book about Fidel Castro and Cuba. In the following review, in which he offers a highly favorable assessment of Guevara's Bolivia diary, Lo...
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In the following excerpt from a collection of essays written for The Times Literary Supplement during 1968, the critic discusses the insights that Guevara's diaries provide into his life and re...
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History reveals that through out the centuries there are many people who are considered heroes and martyrs because of their philanthropic contributions to the world. Ernesto "Che" Guevara is one of t...
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There, in those last moments of people whose furthest horizon has always been tomorrow, is where we can capture the profound tragedy in the life of the proletariat around the world; there is in those ...
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Santa Clara, Cuba (dpa) - Cuba and several other Latin American
nations began celebrations Monday to honour the Argentine-born
revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, killed 40...
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Fidel Castro paid homage to Ernesto "Che" Guevara as an "exceptional combatant" while many of the Argentine guerrilla's relatives and former comrades gathered in central Cuba Monday to mark the 40t...
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A former CIA operative and Cuban exile plans to auction what he says is a lock of Che Guevara's hair, snipped before the Argentinian revolutionary and friend of Fidel Castro was buried in 1967.Gust...
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Havana (dpa) - Cuban doctors volunteering in Bolivia performed a
free cataract surgery for Mario Teran, the Bolivian army sergeant who
killed the legendary guerrilla leader ...
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Havana (dpa) - Ernesto "Che" Guevara lived fast, died young and
left, if not a good-looking corpse, at least one full of mysticism.
But the Argentine-born guerrilla ...
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Anyone can get a "Che" T-shirt for a few bucks, but an actual relic from the revolutionary figure is likely to cost a bit more at an auction Thursday.Bidding starts at $100,000 for a 3-inch lock of...
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A hair lock snipped from Ernesto "Che" Guevara before his burial in 1967 sold for $100,000 at auction Thursday to a Houston-area bookstore owner who called the Marxist "one of the greatest revoluti...
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Madrid (dpa) - A brother-in-arms to Fidel Castro, the Argentine-
born doctor Ernesto "Che" Guevara was one of the great heroes of the
Cuban Revolution.
Guevar...
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Washington (dpa) - A lock of Latin American revolutionary Ernesto
"Che" Guevara's hair sold along with other items billed as related to
his death for 100,000 dollars Thursda...
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Vallegrande, Bolivia (dpa) - German nun Antonia Maria Freude
thought Vallegrande, in the Bolivian jungle, was a peaceful little
village like her own home town of Brochterbec...
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