Word: guevaras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...image of incredible prosperity into the restive heart of Spanish America. The denizens of the "Latin Republics" can see what the 20th Century has to offer and, daily, they want it more. Some, like Romulo Betancourt and Jose Figueres, will practice patience and subtle revolution; others like Che Guevara and Gustavo Machado will ask speed and violence; all seek greater happiness for a greater number...
...songs occasionally develops in disquaires the kind of personality that makes jerks out of disk jockeys, and the power to make people sit down or stand up is, of course, corrupting. Disquaires have the added pleasure of watching their spell take effect. Soon they start talking like Che Guevara. "I manipulate the crowd," says the woman disquaire at New Jimmy's in Paris. "I play four or five slows, then I attack with a twist...
...weeks they toured the island as Castro's guests. On his return, Schoeters excitedly informed friends that "Castro is practically a god." There was another trip in 1960, and this time he stayed several months, working, he said, for the National Institute of Agrarian Reform. He met Che Guevara and came home bubbling about that "first-class hero." His apartment, a friend recalls, was littered with Cuban maps, flags, and a prominently displayed copy of Che Guevara's guerrilla warfare manual...
...Havana, Javier's scholarship covered courses at the Institute de Cine Popular, run by a Cuban professor named Alfredo Guevara (no kin to Che), who gave Fidel Castro some of his first lessons in Marxism. Javier lived at "Peru House," where the house mother is Che Guevara's exwife, Peruvian-born Marxist Hilda Gadea. For five months he wrote home faithfully, then the letters stopped...
Scholars of Revolution. Javier's companions were all university students from upper-or middle-class families. All had traveled to Cuba on scholarships, all had been persuaded to attend Che Guevara's terrorism and guerrilla warfare school at Minas del Frio, all had sneaked back into Peru across the Bolivian border with arms, supplies and money. Their objective, said one of the survivors, was to infiltrate and agitate workers' and peasants' unions in order to prepare the way for the Peruvian revolution. According to the Peruvian government, these seven were only a small part...