Ernesto Guevara Iconic Status
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Ernesto Guevara Iconic Status
Aged twenty-four, Ernesto Guevara pens a regular letter home to
Rosario, Argentina from his flat in Mexico. It concludes: "Things are
moving with tremendous speed and no one can know, or predict, where or
for what reason one will be next year"[1]. This, perhaps, is one
indication of the mans legendary appeal - not as a hero of socialism
or political ideologist, but as a free-spirited and non-fictitious
adventurer. After all, how many of us could end our letters with the
same thrilling poignancy, at any age? Further still, how many of us
manage to more then dream of exploring the sprawling sceneries of our
home-land as Guevara did in 1951 (from Buenos Aires to Venezuela)?
Those of us outside Cuba who accept the commercialization of Guevara's
legacy, in purchasing any of the posters, t-shirts or "Revolucion"
Swatch watches his dashing image adorns, are unlikely to be linked by
communist sympathy, revolutionary intention or anti-American
sentiment. More likely, it will be a fondness for the broader ideals
his face has came to encapsulate - equality, strength, moral
perfection and endless self-improvement. It is no doubt that today,
thirty-six years after his death, Che Guevara has became half
political legend, half pop-culture commodity and a complete,
world-wide icon. Yet Jean-Paul Sartre's comment - that 'his
(Guevara's) life is the story of our era's most perfect man' - fails
to consider the scale of Guevara's imperfections. Ernesto Guevara the
neglectful family man, who became a Father on Valentines Day 1956 yet
left by June to face likely death in the Cuban jungles. Ernesto
Guevara the Latin-America...
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...Life and Death of Che Guevara, " by Jorge G. Castaneda
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[1] 'Che Guevara A Revolutionary Life' Jon Lee Anderson
[2] 'Return Of The Rebel' Newsweek July21st 1997, Brook Lamer
[3] 'Return Of The Rebel' Newsweek July21st 1997, Brook Lamer
[4] 'Che Guevara A Revolutionary Life' Jon Lee Anderson
[5] 'The Motorcycle Diaries' Che Guevara
[6] Review of the Motorcycle Diaries The Scotsman
[7] 'Che Guevara A Revolutionary Life' Jon Lee Anderson
[8] 'Che Guevara A Revolutionary Life' Jon Lee Anderson
[9] 'Che Guevara A Revolutionary Life' Jon Lee Anderson
[10] 'Global Justice: Liberation & Socialism' Che Guevara
[11] 'History At Source - The Cold War' E G Rayner
[12] 'Compacero: The Life And Death Of Che Guevara' Jorge G Castaneda
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- Opines that the events in cuba between 1956 and 1959 were the catalysts for the cuban crisis.
- Explains that to meet had gone ahead and began an attack on the near-by town.
- Describes the other people he met on a heroic week long journey to the sierra.
- Describes the reasons why rugby was accepted as a team member.
- Concludes the problem by shooting him with a.32 pistol in the right.
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