Complete Bolivian Diaries of Che Guevara and Other Captured Documents

by Daniel James, Che Guevara & Daniel James, Ernesto Che Guevara

Book Overview

These 1966 and 1967 diaries of the late Cuban leader were written during his attempt to establish a guerilla insurrectionary movement in Bolivia. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812812298
• ISBN13: 9780812812299
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Madison Books
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Bolivian Diary

The Bolivian Diary of Che Guevara is pretty fascinating, because when I thought about the Bolivian Adventure, Che being a horrible comandante and guerrilla leader always came to my mind. When I read the book I found that there were many aspects that didn't let Che prevail in Bolivia. From Mario Monje and PCB Party's betrayel, Fidel's lack of re-establishing contact with the guerrillas, lack of peasant recruiting to create a people's army, lack of conditions being right in country for an insurection, etc. Even with all these things stopping Che I was very amazed on how far he got, any other leader wouldn't have lasted 2 months. Che's tactics in his ambushes was incredible and even with lack of guerrillas he wiped out mostly all army forces that opposed him. Che was doing superb until US intervention. To understand Che's mission and how he failed is to understan Latin America today.