The Fall of Che Guevara: A Story of Soldiers, Spies, and DiplomatsOxford University Press, 22 janv. 1998 - 256 pages The Fall of Che Guevara tells the story of Guevara's last campaign, in the backwoods of Bolivia, where he hoped to ignite a revolution that would spread throughout South America. For the first time, this book shows in detail the strategy of the U.S. and Bolivian governments to foil his efforts. Based on numerous interviews and on secret documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act from the CIA, the State Department, the Pentagon, and the National Security Archive, this work casts new light on the roles of a Green Beret detachment sent to train the Bolivians and of the CIA and other U.S. agencies in bringing Guevara down. Ryan's shows that Guevara was an agent of Cuban foreign policy from the time he met Fidel Castro in 1955 until his death--not a mere independent revolutionary, as many scholars have claimed. Guevara's attempted insurgency in Bolivia was in reality a Cuban attempt to achieve another badly-needed revolutionary success. This dramatic account of the last days of Che Guevara will appeal to scholars and students of United States foreign policy and Latin American history, and to all those interested in this revolutionary's remarkable life. |
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... Spanish-language materials will reinforce these findings. 1. Che Guevara owed his career as a revolutionary to Fidel Castro, who in effect provided the framework for Guevara's adult life, not only in Cuba but also until his death in ...
... Spanish-language materials will reinforce these findings. 1. Che Guevara owed his career as a revolutionary to Fidel Castro, who in effect provided the framework for Guevara's adult life, not only in Cuba but also until his death in ...
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... Spanish, and developed an easy rapport with the Bolivian peasants (campesinos), something Guevara was never able to do. He rose to become a commissioned officer and retired with the rank of major, serving, when this was written, as a ...
... Spanish, and developed an easy rapport with the Bolivian peasants (campesinos), something Guevara was never able to do. He rose to become a commissioned officer and retired with the rank of major, serving, when this was written, as a ...
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Table des matières
| 3 | |
| 10 | |
2 Contact and Alarm | 40 |
Illustrations | 60 |
3 The Obstacles Accumulate | 61 |
4 The Green Berets | 82 |
5 Guerrilla Triumph and Trouble | 103 |
6 The Killand After | 126 |
7 Memories and Legacies | 155 |
Chronology | 167 |
Notes | 171 |
Bibliography | 201 |
Index | 217 |
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Page 105 - The most important characteristics: 1) We continue without contacts of any kind and without reasonable hope of establishing them in the near future. 2) We continue without any incorporation on the part of the peasants, logical to understand if we take into account the little contact we have had with them in recent times. 3) There is a lowering of the fighting morale; I expect that it be momentary. 4) The army does not increase its effectiveness nor its combativeness. Our morale and revolutionary...
Page 79 - Bolivian army hotheads to start bombing and napalming villages or even suspected guerrilla hideaways. Civilians would inevitably be killed and we have a long experience that this inevitably produces a stream of recruits for the guerrillas.
Page 78 - victims of their own haste, their near desperation to leave, and my lack of energy to stop them.
Page 112 - Today marks exactly nine months since our arrival and the constitution of the guerrilla. Out of the first six, two are dead, one has disappeared and two are wounded ; I have asthma which I do not know how to stop. 8 We walked effectively something like an hour, which seemed more like two to me due to the weariness of the little mare. In a moment of temper, I struck her in the neck with a whip, wounding her badly. The new camp must be the last one with water until the arrival at the Rosita or the...
Page 32 - ... free Cuba from any responsibility, except that which stems from its example. If my final hour finds me under other skies, my last thought will be of this people and especially of you. I am...
Page 77 - ... although we regret two great losses: Rubio and Rolando; the death of the latter is a severe blow, as I had intended leaving him in charge of an eventual second front. We had four more actions; all of them were positive in general and one was very good: the ambush in which El Rubio died. On the other hand, the isolation continues to be complete; sickness keeps undermining the health of some of the comrades, obliging us to divide forces, which lowers effectiveness. We still have not been able to...
Page 78 - ... sickness keeps undermining the health of some of the comrades, obliging us to divide forces, which lowers effectiveness. We still have not been able to make contact with Joaquin; the peasant base is still not being formed, although it seems that through planned terror, we can neutralize most of them; support will come later. Not one person has joined up with us, and apart from the deaths, we have lost Loro, who disappeared after the action in Taperillas.
Page 70 - IS dead and four prisoners, two of them foreigners. They also speak of a foreigner who eliminated himself, and of the composition of the guerrilla. It is obvious that the deserters talked or the prisoner did, but how much they said and how they said it is not known exactly. Everything indicates that Tania has become known, which means that two years of good patient work has been lost. Departure is becoming very difficult now. I received the impression that Danton was not the least bit pleased when...