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“Che” Guevara: Some Documentary Puzzles at the End of a Long Journey*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jay Mallin
Jay Mallin*
Affiliation:
Center for Advanced International Studies, University of Miami
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On December 9, 1964, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, Cuban Minister of Industries and the most powerful man in Cuba under the Castro brothers, flew from Havana to New York to address the United Nations. He lashed at the United States and predicted continental revolution, “That wave of heightening fury, of just demands, of rights that have been flouted, is rising throughout Latin America, and no one can stop that tide.” From New York Guevara flew to Algiers, and thus began a trek that would take him to countries in Africa, Europe and Asia. For three months Guevara traveled, talking to leaders of nations, preaching revolution and communism wherever he went.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Inter-American Studies , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , January 1968 , pp. 74 - 84
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1968

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Footnotes

*

The Institute for Research for Cuba and the Caribbean of the Center for Advanced International Studies, University of Miami, is analyzing and preparing for publication documents related to the revolution in Cuba. As part of this continuing study, the works of Ernesto Guevara are being examined, including a number that have never previously been published. The author of the following article traveled to Bolivia twice in 1967 to gather material on Guevara, and the article provides a view of new information on Guevara that has come to light—as well as questions that remain unanswered.

References

1 Granma (International edition), April 23, 1967.

2 The Research Institute of the Center for Advanced International Studies has the full text of this report. The most important passages are being prepared for inclusion in a forthcoming documentary evaluation of Guevara as a guerrilla theoretician and leader.

3 The Research Institute is currently engaged in such an analysis and more important passages will be included in the publication referred to above.

4 Granma (International edition), October 22, 1967.

5 The Research Institute has excerpts from this diary, and they will be included in the previously mentioned documentary evaluation.

6 This passage was published in Presencia (La Paz), October 11, 1967.

7 As read at the trial of Bustos and Regis Debray (a French writer and activist who had been with Guevara and was captured at the same time as Bustos). Both Bustos and Debray were given 30-year sentences in prison by a Bolivian military court.

8 Presencia, October 11, 1967.

9 Press wire service reports, October 16, 1967.

10 El Diario (La Paz), October 23, 1967.

11 Ibid.

12 Guerra de Guerrillas (Havana, 1960).

13 Speech delivered on radio and television, October 15, 1967.