Volume 16, Number 2 · February 11, 1971
The Bolivian Guerrilla
By John Womack
The Diary of Che Guevara
edited by Robert Scheer
Bantam, 192 pp., $1.45 (paper)
Bolivia a la hora del Che
by Rubén Vázquez Díaz
Siglo Veintuno: Mexico
The Great Rebel: Che Guevara in Bolivia
by Luis J. González, by Gustavo A. Sánchez Salazar, translated by Helen R. Lane
Grove, 254 pp., $1.45 (paper)
The Complete Bolivian Diaries of Ché Guevara and Other Captured Documents
edited by Daniel James
Stein & Day, 330 pp., $6.95
Nãcahuasu, La Guerrilla del Che en Bolivia
by José Luis Alcázar
Era: Mexico
Bolivia bajo el Che
by Philippe Labreveux
Replanteo: Buenos Aires
The Death of a Revolutionary: Che Guevara's Last Mission
by Richard Harris
Norton, 219 pp., $5.95
The campaign 'El Che' Guevara commanded in Bolivia in 1966-67 was a heroic project. It was only in part Fidelista, to reverse the long series of guerrillero defeats in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, and thereby reassert the validity of Fidelista strategy in Latin America (and Fidel's independence from the Soviet Union). It was in its ambition characteristically Guevarista, conceived not from a Latin American's concern for his own continent but, after the massive US intervention in Indochina, from a Latin American's concern to share the fate of the 'victim of aggression' on all continents, to accompany the most tormented 'to his death or to victory.' The aim, as Guevara expressed it to the Tricontinental Conference, was 'to create a second or a third Vietnam…'
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