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Ernesto "Che" Guevara twice traveled across Latin America in the early 1950s. Based on his accounts of those trips (published in English as The Motorcycle Diaries and Back on the Road), as well as other historical sources, Che's Travels follows Guevara, country by country, from his native Argentina through Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela, and then from Argentina through Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, and Mexico. Each essay is focused on a single country and written by an expert in its history. Taken together, the essays shed new light on Che's formative years by analyzing the distinctive societies, histories, politics, and cultures he encountered on these two trips, the ways they affected him, and the ways he represented them in his travelogues. In addition to offering new insights into Guevara, the essays provide a fresh perspective on Latin America's experience of the Cold War and the interplay of nationalism and anti-imperialism in the crucial but relatively understudied 1950s. Assessing Che's legacies in the countries he visited during the two journeys, the contributors examine how he is remembered or memorialized; how he is invoked for political, cultural, and religious purposes; and how perceptions of him affect ideas about the revolutions and counterrevolutions fought in Latin America from the 1960s through the 1980s.ContributorsMalcolm DeasPaulo DrinotEduardo ElenaJudith EwellCindy ForsterPatience A. SchellEric ZolovAnn Zulawski

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Duke University Press

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01 septembre 2010

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9780822391807

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English

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Che’sTravels

Duke University Press Durham and London 2010

PauloDrinot,editor

Che’sTravels TheMakingofaRevolutionary in1950sLatinAmerica

∫2010 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper$ Designed by C. H. Westmoreland Typeset in Quadraat by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

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Contents

∫∫paulo drinot Awaiting the Blood of a Truly Emancipating Revolution:CheGuevarain1950sPeru ∞≤πmalcolm deas ‘‘Putting Up’’ with Violence:ErnestoGuevara, Guevarismo,andColombia ∞∂∫judith ewell Che Guevara and Venezuela:lirreuGalist,Tour Mentor,andRevolutionarySpirit ∞∫∞ann zulawski The National Revolution and Bolivia in the 1950s: WhatDidCheSee? ≤∞≠cindy forster ‘‘Not in All of America Can There Be Found a Country as Democratic as This One’’:CheandRevolutioninGuatemala

≤∂∑eric zolov Between Bohemianism and a Revolutionary Rebirth: CheGuevarainMexico ≤∫≥contributors ≤∫∑index

Acknowledgments

This book started to take shape at a workshop held at the University of Manchester in September 2006. I am especially grateful to all those who participated as discussants or panelists, and particularly to Patrick Barr-Melej, Maggie Bolton, John Gledhill, Penny Harvey, Alan Knight, Fernanda Peñaloza, Patience Schell, and Peter Wade. Several institutions o√ered ﬁnancial support that made the con-ference possible. I acknowledge gratefully the support of the re-search funds of the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures (sahc), the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, and the Centre for Latin American Cultural Studies (clacs), all at the University of Manchester, as well as the Society for Latin American Studies and the Instituto Cervantes in Manchester. The Cartographic Unit at the University of Manchester helped with the production of the two maps of Che’s travels. Special thanks go to Claudia Natteri, who, as clacswas largely responsible for the logistics of administrator, the workshop, to the sta√ of thesahcresearch o≈ce at the Univer-sity of Manchester, and to Piotr Bienkowski and the sta√ of the Manchester Museum, where the meetings for the workshop took place. I am grateful to Valerie Millholland, Miriam Angress, and Neal McTighe of Duke University Press for their support in helping me bring this project to fruition. Special thanks go to the two anony-mous reviewers chosen by the press. Their comments and sugges-tions have helped make this a better volume. Finally, in my capacity as the editor of the volume, I thank the contributors to this book for achieving a perfect balance of good humor and discipline through-out the publication process. I think Che would have approved.

Introduction

PauloDrinot

For better or worse, justly or unjustly, Ernesto ‘‘Che’’ Guevara has come to represent the history of twentieth-century Latin America in a way that no other historical ﬁgure has done. There are good, objective reasons for this, not least his participation in the Cuban Revolution, arguably the single most important, and pivotal, pro-cess in twentieth-century Latin American history; a process that radically redeﬁned Latin America’s role in the global political the-atre. But there are also other, more subjective reasons, reasons that historians and social scientists would be foolish to ignore. Che, it must be said, was an attractive man. His allure derived partly from his good looks but equally, and perhaps primarily, from the fact that he appeared to lead the sort of life that many men, and some women, secretly or avowedly wished to lead themselves. Either be-cause they, too, believed passionately in revolution as the means of achieving social justice or, more likely, because they associated the man with adventure and a break from convention, many in Latin America and throughout the world came to identify with Che, or the idea of Che. Irrespective of the ways in which the Cuban Revolution sought to claim Che as its primary symbol, in the half century that saw the rise of the global media, Che quickly became a global politi-cal phenomenon and a cultural artifact that seemed to condense both the very spirit of revolution (in both a social and an individual sense) and the history and culture of Latin America and the way that region came to be understood in a broader global context. Che’s enduring appeal was conﬁrmed recently by the critical and box o≈ce success of Walter Salles’s ﬁlm,TheMotorcycleDiaries, re-leased in 2004. Based on the diaries written by Guevara and his traveling companion, Alberto Granado, during their journey across South America in the early 1950s, the ﬁlm revived general interest in

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