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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Che Guevara Reader
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Our America and Theirs
Copyright © 2011 Che Guevara Studies Center and Aleida March
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ISBN 978-0-9872283-5-2 (e-book)
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2011922100
First edition published in 2012
Published in Spanish as Pasajes de la Guerra revolucionaria: Congo ISBN 978-1-920888-79-4
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CONTENTS
by Gabriel García Marquez
by Aleida Guevara March
CONGO DIARY
Winds from the West, Breezes from the East
Breaking Loose
Scattering Seeds
Attempting “Pursuit”
The Patient Grows Worse
Taking the Pulse
The Beginning of the End
A Battle against Time
Various Escapes
Disaster
The Whirlwind
A Stab in the Back
The Eastern Front Sinks into a Coma
The Collapse
Epilogue
Appendices:
Glossary: Clarification of Swahili Names and Terms
List of the Cuban Combatants in the Congo
In a letter to his mother, written from Mexico in October of 1956, the young Ernesto Guevara declared that he had decided “to deal with the main things first, to pit myself against the order of things, shield on my arm, the whole fantasy, and then, if the windmills don’t break open my head, I’ll write.” These lines announce the definitive consummation of a change in the young Argentine and point to the future course of his life in which action and reflection, understanding the world and transforming it, would be united in perfect harmony.
Che’s famous Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary