The awakening of latin america - ernesto che guevara

This classic anthology on Latin America shows the Argentine-born revolutionarys cultural depth, rigorous intellect, and intense emotional engagement with a continent and its people.

In a letter to his mother in 1954, a young Ernesto Guevara wrote, The Americas will be the theater of my adventures in a way that is much more significant than I would have believed.

In The Awakening of Latin America we have the story of those adventures, charting Ches evolution from an impressionable young medical student to the heroic guerrilla, assassinated in cold blood in Bolivia.

Spanning seventeen years, this anthology draws on from his familys personal archives and offers the best of Ches writing: examples of his journalism, essays, speeches, letters, and even poems.

As Che documents his early travels through Latin America, his involvement in the Guatemalan and Cuban revolutions, and his rise to international prominence under Fidel Castro, we see how his fervent commitment to social justice shaped and was shaped by the continent he called home.