Latin America Diaries CHE GUEVARA PUBLISHING PROJECT THE DIARIES: The Motorcycle Diaries (1952) Latin America Diaries (1953) Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War (1956-59) Congo Diary (1965) The Bolivian Diary (1966-67) ALSO AVAILABLE: Che: The Diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara Che Guevara Reader Global Justice Self-Portrait: A Photographic and Literary Memoir Marx & Engels: A Biographical Introduction Our America and Theirs The Great Debate on Political Economy and Revolution The Awakening of Latin America ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA Latin America Diaries Otra Vez or a second look at Latin America Foreword by Alberto Granado Cover design ::maybe Cover image: Ernesto Che Guevara on Popocatépetl volcano, Mexico Copyright © 2011 Aleida March Copyright © 2011 Ocean Press Copyright © 2011 Che Guevara Studies Center Photos copyright © 2011 Che Guevara Studies Center All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN 978-0-9870779-7-4 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2011922103 First edition published in 2011 Published in Spanish as Otra Vez 978-1-920888-78-7 PUBLISHED BY OCEAN PRESS Australia: PO Box 1015, North Melbourne, Vic 3051, Australia USA: 511 Ave of the Americas, #96, New York, NY 10011-8436, USA E-mail: [email protected] OCEAN PRESS TRADE DISTRIBUTORS United States: Consortium Book Sales and Distribution Tel: 1-800-283-3572 www.cbsd.com Canada: Publishers Group Canada Tel: 1-800-663 5714 [email protected] Australia and New Zealand: Palgrave Macmillan Tel: 1-300-135 113 E-mail: [email protected] UK and Europe: Turnaround Publisher Services Tel: (44) 020-8829 3000 E-mail: [email protected] Mexico, Cuba and Latin America: Ocean Sur E-mail: [email protected] Contents Chronology of Ernesto Che Guevara Maps Editorial note A Note to the Reader Foreword by Alberto Granado Latin America Diaries Departure Bolivia Peru Ecuador Panama Costa Rica Nicaragua Guatemala El Salvador Guatemala Mexico Appendices Journalism: A View from the Banks of the Giant of Rivers Machu-Picchu: Stone Enigma of the Americas The Dilemma of Guatemala Poems: A los mineros de Bolivia (To the Bolivian Miners) (April 9) Invitación al camino (An Invitation to Travel) (December 1954) Newspaper reports of Ernesto Guevara during this trip Facsimiles of the diary