Che's Travels: The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America

摘要

This is a fascinating collection which, arising from a 1006 workshop, attempts to build around the itineraries of Che Guevara's two famous journeys through Latin America (in 1951 and 1953) a series of snapshot pictures of the relevant countries of that time, judging both the extent of their impact on him and his subsequent impact on them. On the latter, all contributors agree. The 'new Left' which his writings and efforts engendered fundamentally changed each country's politics, albeit, in some contributors' view, not always for the better. On the former, they also mostly agree.