Che's Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image

摘要

In early 1967, in a small rural Bolivian town called La Higuera, a half-drunk Bolivian soldier was sent to execute the just-captured Argentine revolutionary, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. Right before pulling the trigger, the Bolivian heard the prisoner say, 'shoot, you coward, you're going to kill a man'. In his delightfully engaging book, Che's Afterlife, seasoned Latin America reporter Michael Casey makes clear that while Guevara's grisly 'martyrdom' served as an abrupt end to his 'little Bolivian insurgency', his legend has lived on; indeed, Che enjoys unrivalled status as the world's number one revolutionary.