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Che's Motorcycle Madness |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Cynthia Grenier |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1996 |
| Size: 1,937 Words, 11,737 Characters |
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THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
A Journey around South America
Ernesto Che Guevara, translated by Ann Wright
New York: Verso, 1995
156 pp., $19.95
Ernesto Che Guevara's body has lain moldering nearly three decades now in an unmarked grave somewhere in the jungles of Bolivia. His hands, preserved in formaldehyde, float in a jar in the Museum of the Revolution in Havana. His four children from his second marriage are all older today than their father was when he set sail from Mexico in the Granma with Fidel Castro to start the revolution that drove Batista from power. His grandson, son of his son by his first wife, Peruvian Hilda Gardea, is a teenager living in Cuba who dreams of becoming a rock musician. Che Guevara's face, lit with romantic revolutionary fervor, still de...
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...rto Bustos, who spent a few weeks with him in the Bolivian guerrilla encampment, as saying the experience was a disaster because "the human element [the Congolese, not the Cubans] failed. There is no will to fight. The leaders are corrupt." After six months Guevara left in disgust, seeking new terrains from which to launch his revolution--choosing Bolivia, which brought him failure and death.
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