Che Guevara
Una vida revolucionaria
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Descripción editorial
Gracias a la investigación llevada a cabo por el periodista y reportero Jon Lee Anderson, colaborador del New Yorker, nos acercamos de nuevo a la fascinante figura de Ernesto «Che» Guevara, tan publicitada como, en parte, desconocida: un luchador revolucionario, estratega militar, filósofo social, economista, médico, y amigo y confidente de Fidel Castro. Una vida revolucionaria que arrastra al lector desde las capitales revolucionarias de La Habana y Argel hasta los campos de batalla de Bolivia y el Congo; de los corredores del poder de Moscú y Washington hasta el exilio en el puerto de Miami, México y Guatemala. Jon Lee Anderson es el único biógrafo que ha tenido acceso exclusivo a los archivos del gobierno cubano y ha gozado de la colaboración de la viuda del Che, que nunca había hablado con ningún periodista, además obtuvo documentos inéditos y pudo descubrir un misterio guardado celosamente: el paradero del cuerpo del Che, que luego pudo ser repatriado a Cuba. «La biografía más rigurosa de Ernesto Che Guevara» (Fernando García Mongay, Heraldo de Aragón); «Un texto intenso, despojado de artificio y subjetividad, desmitificador, que relata con buen pulso periodístico la historia de un hombre fuera de lo común» (Francisco Luis del Pino, Qué Leer).
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At 25 (in 1953), Ernesto Guevara de la Serna received his medical degree in Argentina. A conventional career lay ahead if he wanted it. At 39, captured in a quixotic, doomed guerrilla operation in the Bolivian outback unenthusiastically financed by Havana, "Che" was shot to death as he lay trussed on the floor of a village schoolhouse. In the years between, he had metamorphosed from doctor to tramp to revolutionary, discovering his cause and his anti-yanqui resolve in the poverty of Guatemala and as one of the 18 survivors of Fidel Castro's incursion into Cuba. Reckless in promoting his Mao-esque brand of Marxism, he tried to make the Cuban model work in postcolonial Africa and elsewhere in Latin America, expecting that a small but dedicated band of operatives could enlist a burgeoning army of the exploited and overturn oppressive regimes. Anderson (coauthor of Guerrillas), a thorough researcher but a plodding writer, shows that Che found few converts to his religion of fanatical, selfless revolution. Bored with ministerial office in Castro's Cuba, he tried to transplant that country's success. He had a hard time accepting that courageous communist ideologues were rare and that exploited troops tended to melt away when victories didn't come easily. Through letters, speeches, unpublished diaries and numerous interviews, including one with Che's widow, sometimes in overwhelming detail and at daunting length, Anderson establishes as fact suppositions that the CIA's pursuit of Guevara was relentless and probably unnecessary. This huge biography will add to his iconic status. Illustrations not seen by PW.
