Latin America Diaries (26 page)

Hermana, madre, compañera… ¡CAMARADA!

este camino conduce a la batalla.

Deja tu cansancio, deja tus temores,

deja tus pequeñas angustias cotidianas.

¿Qué importa el polvo acre?, ¿qué importan los escollos?

¿Qué importa que tus hijos no escuchen el llamado?

A su cárcel de
green-backs
vamos a buscarlos.

Camarada, sígueme; es la hora de marchar…

December 1954

_____________

*
An invitation to travel

News report in
La Hora
(Panama), November 10, 1953: “Two Argentine students visited the offices of
La Hora
last night.”

News report in
El Diario de Costa Rica
, December 11, 1953: “An extraordinary experiment underway in Bolivia.” This article quotes “two young Argentines,” Ernesto Guevara and Eduardo García.

News report in
Excelsior
(Mexico), June 27, 1956: “More arrests of Cuban conspirators said to be supported by communists.” This reports on the arrest of the Argentine doctor, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, along with a group of Cubans for conspiring to overthrow and assassinate President Fulgencio Batista of Cuba.

News report in
Excelsior
(Mexico) July 11, 1956: “Only Ruz, Guevara and others remain in detention for violating the law.” This reports that of the group of “conspirators” arrested the previous month, only Fidel Castro Ruz, Ernesto Guevara and two others are still in prison in Mexico.

Ernesto Guevara's job reference from the Agencia Latina dated June 20, 1955, confirming he worked for the agency during 1954 and demonstrated “honesty and ability.”

Facsimile of the first page of the diary Ernesto titled “Otra Vez.”

Facsimile of the page of the diary with Ernesto's sketch of a chac-mool.

In this unique political memoir, Fidel Castro writes with great candor and emotion about a historic revolutionary partnership that changed the face of Cuba and Latin America. Fidel creates a vivid portrait of Che Guevara—the man, the revolutionary, and the intellectual—revealing much about his own inimitable determination and character.

This fascinating memoir includes Fidel's speech on the return of Che's remains to Cuba 30 years after his assassination in Bolivia in 1967, and provides a frank assessment of the Bolivian mission.

“For me, it has always been hard to accept the idea that Che is dead. I dream of him often, that I have spoken to him, that he is alive.”

—Fidel Castro

ISBN 978-1-920888-25-1 (Also in Spanish ISBN 978-1-921235-02-3)

This bestselling anthology features the most complete selection of Che Guevara's writings, letters, and speeches available in English. Far more than a guerrilla strategist, Che Guevara made a profound and lasting contribution to revolutionary theory and Marxist humanism, as demonstrated in this comprehensive book.

The
Che Guevara Reader
includes essays on the Cuban revolutionary war and guerrilla warfare, Che's analysis of the first years of the Cuban revolution (in which he played a major role) and his vision for Latin America and the Third World.

“Che was the most complete human being of our age.”

—Jean-Paul Sartre

ISBN 978-1-876175-69-6 (Also in Spanish ISBN 978-1-876175-93-1)