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| Companero. The Life and Death of Che Guevara,
Jorge Castaneda, Marina Castaneda |
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| Books,
Debbie Fagan,
20 January 1999 |
Rating: F4
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In 1967, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, an Argentine doctor and revolutionary joined forces with Castro to overturn Fulgencio Batista's regime in Cuba.
Jorge Castaneda truimphs in this rendition of the life and death of Guevara -the icon of modern political mythology. He narrates his life starting with Che as an ailing young asthmatic. Following the course of events through his volatile narcissistic medical school years culminating in
his inevitable execution by the Bolivian military.
Castaneda's greatest victory is perhaps his ability to seperate Che the myth from Che the man, thereby making Ernesto Guevara credible and so much more of a hero. Told with much attention to detail we see how the young child from a small school in La Higuera became this icon of the Vallegrand inhabiting the social utopias of generation after generation emblazoning t-shirt after t-shirt."If anyone ever believed that wanting the world was enough to have it, and have it now, that man was Che Guevara. If there was ever a time when millions thought the same thing, it was the sixties"
Bloomsbury
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