The Nation, October 17th, 1987
Remembering Che The first time I went to Latin America, in the mid-1970s, I hitched a ride at one point on a Peruvian lumber truck. Each of its mud flaps carried a stenciled version of Alberto Korda's famous portrait of Che Guevara, "the heroic guerrillero.' Two years later, in Guatemala, I came across the same image woven into a pair of nylon socks that were on sale in a street market near the Mexican border. After he was killed in Bolivia, twenty years ago last week, Guevara provoked a greater volume of iconography than most political figures, and in the oddest variety of media. A London p...
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