Word: guevaras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their heroes apparently are Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Cong. To the young potheads, America and the Americans are always wrong, and the other guy is always right, especially if he is a Communist. If I could feel sorry for the younger generation, I would; for soon there will be no teachers, no doctors, no lawyers, no engineers, no merchants, no anything, except revolutionaries running in a thousand different directions, having mistaken license for liberty...
After considering petitions from many noted literati and intellectuals, including the venerated Jean-Paul Sartre, Bolivian President Alfredo Ovando Candia has announced that the case of Régis Debray "is being re-examined." The French revolutionary is serving 30 years in military prison for his part in Che Guevara's abortive 1966-67 guerrilla campaigns. Should he be freed, Debray, 30, may have a job waiting for him-a safer one. La Paz's "Popular University" of Tupaj Katari is offering him a professorship in Marxist philosophy...
...Aztec relics from the Mexico City National Museum of Anthropology, set off by a mariachi band. The Indians and Hawaiians have improvised a pacifier for impatient queues: luscious dancing girls in native costumes. For comic relief, there is the Cuban Pavilion, festooned with love portraits of Castro and Che Guevara counterpointed by hate pictures of Batista and bloated capitalistas...
...express the qualitative difference between our lives and the life of a revolutionary, Che Guevara had to use a biological metaphor, "This type of fight gives us the opportunity of becoming revolutionaries, the highest level of the human species...
...From Guevara and all of the men who fought in Cuba, we can take a new breath of life. Che wanted us to take up his gun as he fell. It is hard to imagine a soul more committed, more alive than Che. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a higher level of human being...