CHE The True Story
"History will probably treat Guevara as the Garibaldi of his age, the most admired and loved revolutionary of his time. The impact of his ideas on socialism and guerrilla warfare may be temporary, but his influence, particularly in Latin America, must be lasting. For there has been no man with so great an ideal of unity for that divided and unlucky continent since Bolivar. The young will find new heroes but not more inspiring. And the consequences of his death are only beginning to be seen in the social upheaval and changes around us. When the general in Viva Zapata! looks down at the riddled corpse of the dead guerilla leader, he says, 'Sometimes a dead man can be a terrible enemy.' For the rich nations of the earth, and for the corrupt governments that rule many of the poor nations the dead Che is a terrible and a beautiful enemy." Andrew Sinclair, Che Guevara.
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The Che Guevara you will find in the text of this narrative is the Che I found in countless readings of his own extensive, detailed writings. Great care was taken to present him in his own words. Although this novel is a work of fiction, the people, places and events described herein are historically accurate. Much of the narrative is based on thorough research into recently declassified National Security Agency and other government agency documents from American archives as well as those from the Latin American countries involved.
Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna was many things to many people and has been called a tyrant by some and a saint by others. A study of his life begs the question, was he more of a dreamer than a politician, more of a healer than a soldier and more of a vagabond than a revolutionary? He told many people he would rather be traveling the countryside than dealing with the frustrations of revolution, especially dealing with post revolutionary bureaucracies. His famous statement in a letter to his mother, ". . . two I's are struggling inside me; the socialist and the traveler," reveals the inner conflict he struggled with all his life.
That he was a dreamer is found in his visions of joining the spirits that cast their magic spells over the beauty of Che's beloved Machu Picchu.
That he was a healer is evidenced by the fact that he could have been a rich doctor practicing in an upscale Argentine suburb but chose to dwell among the poor and treat lepers. He rarely accepted payment for any of his medical services and used any money he received to do research on leprosy and the ravages of allergic disorders.
That he was a vagabond is evident in the detailed and voluminous writing of his travel journals.
Is it in these descriptions of his travels that you come to know the real Che Guevara? Or is it in his later writings about Guerilla warfare and the need for armed struggle against the ". . . dollar and the cross"?
Was it his travels through the impoverishment, oppression and squalor of the South American countryside that made him seek social justice or was he just some radical Marxist who wanted to impose his brand of politics on people?
Was he a doctor of medicine with a big heart who saw too much social illness in his travels and wanted to find a cure, or was he a tyrant who chose to "cure" these social ills by any means necessary--including armed revolution?
Whatever he was, Doctor Ernesto de la Serna "Che" Guevara was a fascinating man who when confronted with execution stood up and faced his enemies.
He declined a blindfold and told them to ". . . shoot and let the world know you have killed a man."
What kind of man they killed is perhaps summed up in his own words. "Many will call me an adventurer--and that I am. Only one of a different sort. One of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes."
Even his most ardent enemies have to agree he was that.
* * * * *
EXCERPTS:
" ... Ernesto became "Che" in Guatemala. It was here amidst the squalor of exploitive poverty and the savagery of the CIA backed bombing of women and children at the behest of what would become his lifetime enemy--The United Fruit Company and other international monopolies that the traveler became a revolutionary. Here his concern for the pobrecitos became a deep abiding anger that drove him to take aggressive actions for social change that were "revolutionary" to some but welcome deliverance to others..."
This book is fact based, but also tells a compelling love story based on true events:
"... Ernesto ( Che) was a true believer in equality for women. I really wanted him to like me because I enjoyed his company so much. As I got up to leave, I was smiling as I walked to the door. Then Chichina, a stunning Argentine beauty, walked in and ran to Ernesto's arms.As I watched them embrace, my heart stopped. I had no idea who she was, but the look of love in Ernesto's eyes told me I had to find out - no matter how much it might hurt ..."
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The Che Guevara you will find in the text of this narrative is the Che I found in countless readings of his own extensive, detailed writings. Great care was taken to present him in his own words. Although this novel is a work of fiction, the people, places and events described herein are historically accurate. Much of the narrative is based on thorough research into recently declassified National Security Agency and other government agency documents from American archives as well as those from the Latin American countries involved.
Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna was many things to many people and has been called a tyrant by some and a saint by others. A study of his life begs the question, was he more of a dreamer than a politician, more of a healer than a soldier and more of a vagabond than a revolutionary? He told many people he would rather be traveling the countryside than dealing with the frustrations of revolution, especially dealing with post revolutionary bureaucracies. His famous statement in a letter to his mother, ". . . two I's are struggling inside me; the socialist and the traveler," reveals the inner conflict he struggled with all his life.
That he was a dreamer is found in his visions of joining the spirits that cast their magic spells over the beauty of Che's beloved Machu Picchu.
That he was a healer is evidenced by the fact that he could have been a rich doctor practicing in an upscale Argentine suburb but chose to dwell among the poor and treat lepers. He rarely accepted payment for any of his medical services and used any money he received to do research on leprosy and the ravages of allergic disorders.
That he was a vagabond is evident in the detailed and voluminous writing of his travel journals.
Is it in these descriptions of his travels that you come to know the real Che Guevara? Or is it in his later writings about Guerilla warfare and the need for armed struggle against the ". . . dollar and the cross"?
Was it his travels through the impoverishment, oppression and squalor of the South American countryside that made him seek social justice or was he just some radical Marxist who wanted to impose his brand of politics on people?
Was he a doctor of medicine with a big heart who saw too much social illness in his travels and wanted to find a cure, or was he a tyrant who chose to "cure" these social ills by any means necessary--including armed revolution?
Whatever he was, Doctor Ernesto de la Serna "Che" Guevara was a fascinating man who when confronted with execution stood up and faced his enemies.
He declined a blindfold and told them to ". . . shoot and let the world know you have killed a man."
What kind of man they killed is perhaps summed up in his own words. "Many will call me an adventurer--and that I am. Only one of a different sort. One of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes."
Even his most ardent enemies have to agree he was that.
* * * * *
EXCERPTS:
" ... Ernesto became "Che" in Guatemala. It was here amidst the squalor of exploitive poverty and the savagery of the CIA backed bombing of women and children at the behest of what would become his lifetime enemy--The United Fruit Company and other international monopolies that the traveler became a revolutionary. Here his concern for the pobrecitos became a deep abiding anger that drove him to take aggressive actions for social change that were "revolutionary" to some but welcome deliverance to others..."
This book is fact based, but also tells a compelling love story based on true events:
"... Ernesto ( Che) was a true believer in equality for women. I really wanted him to like me because I enjoyed his company so much. As I got up to leave, I was smiling as I walked to the door. Then Chichina, a stunning Argentine beauty, walked in and ran to Ernesto's arms.As I watched them embrace, my heart stopped. I had no idea who she was, but the look of love in Ernesto's eyes told me I had to find out - no matter how much it might hurt ..."
CHE The True Story
"History will probably treat Guevara as the Garibaldi of his age, the most admired and loved revolutionary of his time. The impact of his ideas on socialism and guerrilla warfare may be temporary, but his influence, particularly in Latin America, must be lasting. For there has been no man with so great an ideal of unity for that divided and unlucky continent since Bolivar. The young will find new heroes but not more inspiring. And the consequences of his death are only beginning to be seen in the social upheaval and changes around us. When the general in Viva Zapata! looks down at the riddled corpse of the dead guerilla leader, he says, 'Sometimes a dead man can be a terrible enemy.' For the rich nations of the earth, and for the corrupt governments that rule many of the poor nations the dead Che is a terrible and a beautiful enemy." Andrew Sinclair, Che Guevara.
* * * * *
The Che Guevara you will find in the text of this narrative is the Che I found in countless readings of his own extensive, detailed writings. Great care was taken to present him in his own words. Although this novel is a work of fiction, the people, places and events described herein are historically accurate. Much of the narrative is based on thorough research into recently declassified National Security Agency and other government agency documents from American archives as well as those from the Latin American countries involved.
Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna was many things to many people and has been called a tyrant by some and a saint by others. A study of his life begs the question, was he more of a dreamer than a politician, more of a healer than a soldier and more of a vagabond than a revolutionary? He told many people he would rather be traveling the countryside than dealing with the frustrations of revolution, especially dealing with post revolutionary bureaucracies. His famous statement in a letter to his mother, ". . . two I's are struggling inside me; the socialist and the traveler," reveals the inner conflict he struggled with all his life.
That he was a dreamer is found in his visions of joining the spirits that cast their magic spells over the beauty of Che's beloved Machu Picchu.
That he was a healer is evidenced by the fact that he could have been a rich doctor practicing in an upscale Argentine suburb but chose to dwell among the poor and treat lepers. He rarely accepted payment for any of his medical services and used any money he received to do research on leprosy and the ravages of allergic disorders.
That he was a vagabond is evident in the detailed and voluminous writing of his travel journals.
Is it in these descriptions of his travels that you come to know the real Che Guevara? Or is it in his later writings about Guerilla warfare and the need for armed struggle against the ". . . dollar and the cross"?
Was it his travels through the impoverishment, oppression and squalor of the South American countryside that made him seek social justice or was he just some radical Marxist who wanted to impose his brand of politics on people?
Was he a doctor of medicine with a big heart who saw too much social illness in his travels and wanted to find a cure, or was he a tyrant who chose to "cure" these social ills by any means necessary--including armed revolution?
Whatever he was, Doctor Ernesto de la Serna "Che" Guevara was a fascinating man who when confronted with execution stood up and faced his enemies.
He declined a blindfold and told them to ". . . shoot and let the world know you have killed a man."
What kind of man they killed is perhaps summed up in his own words. "Many will call me an adventurer--and that I am. Only one of a different sort. One of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes."
Even his most ardent enemies have to agree he was that.
* * * * *
EXCERPTS:
" ... Ernesto became "Che" in Guatemala. It was here amidst the squalor of exploitive poverty and the savagery of the CIA backed bombing of women and children at the behest of what would become his lifetime enemy--The United Fruit Company and other international monopolies that the traveler became a revolutionary. Here his concern for the pobrecitos became a deep abiding anger that drove him to take aggressive actions for social change that were "revolutionary" to some but welcome deliverance to others..."
This book is fact based, but also tells a compelling love story based on true events:
"... Ernesto ( Che) was a true believer in equality for women. I really wanted him to like me because I enjoyed his company so much. As I got up to leave, I was smiling as I walked to the door. Then Chichina, a stunning Argentine beauty, walked in and ran to Ernesto's arms.As I watched them embrace, my heart stopped. I had no idea who she was, but the look of love in Ernesto's eyes told me I had to find out - no matter how much it might hurt ..."
* * * * *
The Che Guevara you will find in the text of this narrative is the Che I found in countless readings of his own extensive, detailed writings. Great care was taken to present him in his own words. Although this novel is a work of fiction, the people, places and events described herein are historically accurate. Much of the narrative is based on thorough research into recently declassified National Security Agency and other government agency documents from American archives as well as those from the Latin American countries involved.
Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna was many things to many people and has been called a tyrant by some and a saint by others. A study of his life begs the question, was he more of a dreamer than a politician, more of a healer than a soldier and more of a vagabond than a revolutionary? He told many people he would rather be traveling the countryside than dealing with the frustrations of revolution, especially dealing with post revolutionary bureaucracies. His famous statement in a letter to his mother, ". . . two I's are struggling inside me; the socialist and the traveler," reveals the inner conflict he struggled with all his life.
That he was a dreamer is found in his visions of joining the spirits that cast their magic spells over the beauty of Che's beloved Machu Picchu.
That he was a healer is evidenced by the fact that he could have been a rich doctor practicing in an upscale Argentine suburb but chose to dwell among the poor and treat lepers. He rarely accepted payment for any of his medical services and used any money he received to do research on leprosy and the ravages of allergic disorders.
That he was a vagabond is evident in the detailed and voluminous writing of his travel journals.
Is it in these descriptions of his travels that you come to know the real Che Guevara? Or is it in his later writings about Guerilla warfare and the need for armed struggle against the ". . . dollar and the cross"?
Was it his travels through the impoverishment, oppression and squalor of the South American countryside that made him seek social justice or was he just some radical Marxist who wanted to impose his brand of politics on people?
Was he a doctor of medicine with a big heart who saw too much social illness in his travels and wanted to find a cure, or was he a tyrant who chose to "cure" these social ills by any means necessary--including armed revolution?
Whatever he was, Doctor Ernesto de la Serna "Che" Guevara was a fascinating man who when confronted with execution stood up and faced his enemies.
He declined a blindfold and told them to ". . . shoot and let the world know you have killed a man."
What kind of man they killed is perhaps summed up in his own words. "Many will call me an adventurer--and that I am. Only one of a different sort. One of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes."
Even his most ardent enemies have to agree he was that.
* * * * *
EXCERPTS:
" ... Ernesto became "Che" in Guatemala. It was here amidst the squalor of exploitive poverty and the savagery of the CIA backed bombing of women and children at the behest of what would become his lifetime enemy--The United Fruit Company and other international monopolies that the traveler became a revolutionary. Here his concern for the pobrecitos became a deep abiding anger that drove him to take aggressive actions for social change that were "revolutionary" to some but welcome deliverance to others..."
This book is fact based, but also tells a compelling love story based on true events:
"... Ernesto ( Che) was a true believer in equality for women. I really wanted him to like me because I enjoyed his company so much. As I got up to leave, I was smiling as I walked to the door. Then Chichina, a stunning Argentine beauty, walked in and ran to Ernesto's arms.As I watched them embrace, my heart stopped. I had no idea who she was, but the look of love in Ernesto's eyes told me I had to find out - no matter how much it might hurt ..."
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| BN ID: | 2940157337643 |
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| Publisher: | OZ PUBLISHING |
| Publication date: | 04/26/2017 |
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