América Latina: Despertar de un Continente (Ocean Sur) (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Ernesto Che Guevara (Author), María del Carmen Ariet García (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2003

An outstanding new anthology that presents for the first time a comprehensive collection of Che’s writing on Latin America from the period of his youthful travel diaries to his final guerrilla mission in Bolivia.

To be published in English asLatin America: Awakening of a Continentin Spring 2004.

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About the Author

Che Guevara was the legendary Latin American guerrilla fighter who joined the Cuban revolutionary movement that toppled the Batista dictatorship. He played a leading role in the early years of the Cuban Revolution and made an extraordinary and original contribution to Marxist theory. He died at the hands of CIA assassins in Bolivia in 1967. Maria del Carmen Ariet Garcia is a world-renown scholar of the works of Ernesto Che Guevara. She played a leading role in the research that led to the discovery of Che's remains in Bolivia in 1997. She now directs the work of the Che Guevara Studies Center in Havana.

Product Details

• Paperback: 523 pages
• Publisher: Ocean Press (September 1, 2003)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 1876175710
• ISBN-13: 978-1876175719
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #513,488 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Ernesto Che Guevara was born in Argentina in 1928. After fighting alongside Fidel Castro in the three-year guerilla war in Cuba, he became Minister for Industry following the victory of the Cuban revolution. In 1966 he established a guerilla base in Bolivia. He was captured and killed in 1967.