The awakening of Latin America : a classic anthology of Che Guevara's writings on Latin America

463 Pages·2013·3.19 MB·English

by  Che Guevara

THE AWAKENING OF LATIN AMERICA
CHE GUEVARA PUBLISHING PROJECT
THE DIARIES:
The Motorcycle Diaries (1952)
Latin America Diaries (1953–55)
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War (1956–58) Diary of a
Combatant (1956–58)
Congo Diary (1965)
The Bolivian Diary (1966–67)
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Our America and Theirs
THE AWAKENING OF
LATIN AMERICA
A classic anthology of Che Guevara’s writings
on Latin America
Ernesto Che Guevara
Edited by María del Carmen Ariet García
Copyright © 2013 Che Guevara Studies Center and Aleida March Copyright © 2013 Ocean Press
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.
Poetry translated by Manuel Talens and Sue Ashdown.
ISBN: 978-1-921700-91-0
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2011943982
First edition published in 2013
Published in Spanish as América Latina: Despertar de un Continente
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Contents
Ernesto Che Guevara: Biographical Note
Chronology of Ernesto Che Guevara
Editor’s Preface
Introduction
María del Carmen Ariet García
PART ONE
Discovering Latin America 1950–56
Introduction
Travels in Argentina (1950)
Excerpts from “The Bicycle Diaries”
First Trip through Latin America (1951–52)
Excerpts from “The Motorcycle Diaries”
A Second Look at Latin America (1953–56)
Excerpts from “Latin America Diaries”
Doctors and their Environment
The Role of the Doctor in Latin America
Reading Notes
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España by Bernal Díaz del
Castillo
La crónica del Perú by Pedro Cieza de León
La araucana by Alonso de Ercilla
Facundo (Civilización o barbarie) by Domingo F. Sarmiento
El Evangelio y el Syllabus y Un dualismo imposible by Dr. Lorenzo Montúfar
Martín Fierro by José Hernández
Obras escogidas by Enrique Gómez Carrillo
Martí: Raíz y ala del libertador de Cuba by Vicente Sáenz
Breve historia de México by José Vasconcelos
Trayectoria de Goethe by Alfonso Reyes
La rebelión de los colgados by Bruno Traven
Biografía del Caribe by Germán Arciniegas
Mamita Yunai by Carlos Luis Fallas
Canto General by Pablo Neruda
Guatemala: la democracia y el imperio by Juan José Arévalo
El hechicero by Carlos Solórzano
Journalism (1953–54)
“The View from the Banks of the Giant of Rivers”
“Machu-Picchu: An Enigma in Stone of the Americas”
“The Dilemma of Guatemala”
“The Workers of the United States: Friends or Enemies?”
Poems (unpublished)
To the Bolivian Miners
Who Cares?
Spain in America
A Tear for You
Invitation to the Road
Uaxactún... Sleeps
Selected Letters (1953–56)
Books Read in Adolescence
PART TWO