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...truly international figure during his lifetime, traveling widely and feted by the wealthy and well-connected. Historian Rohan McWilliam says he was a favorite of a radical salon crowd in Victorian England for his mix of egalitarianism, insurgent tactics and rugged sex appeal - a forerunner of Argentine Marxist Che Guevara. Though T shirts may be rare, after his death Garibaldi's name would adorn monuments, towns and mountain ranges from Rome to Russia, Canada to Brazil...
...fourth largest economy as well as the site of the 2008 Summer Olympics. But the next Red Scare might come not from the PRC, but from our own hemisphere. So much for containment. A new leader, Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez, is taking a Fidel Castro/Che Guevara approach to government: one part faux-Socialist, one part seriously Communist, one part smokin’ hot. President Castro, fearless leader (or, you know, dictator) of Cuba for more than thirty years, transferred his governing powers to his brother in July 2006 due to illness. Despite having a foot...
...nominate South African State President P.W. Botha, who will not be a welcome choice but who has greatly influenced world events. Luis V. Guevara Manila...
...carrot’ [Cuban dictator] Fidel Castro, instead of just ‘stick’ him.” After three instances of covert diplomatic contact in the early 1960s—the first with Cuban official Ernesto “Che” Guevara to discuss Castro’s agenda; the second, a meeting concerning prisoner exchange; the third, a series of talks which dissolved after squabbles—the White House under John F. Kennedy ’40 chose not to build on these successes, Hernández said. And Kennedy simultaneously employed confrontational strategies...
...collectors who flocked to this historic literary mecca to browse and collect rare volumes. There was something for every bibliophile, with prices ranging from ten dollars to hundreds of thousands. In addition to books, items available included diaries, letters, sketches, and even a visa application filled out by Che Guevara. Guests attended panels running throughout the weekend, which included a College Student Collectors’ Roundtable discussion featuring Harvard’s very own Michael Hays Sanchez ’07 for his collection of French avant-garde literature. Among the exciting finds were a first edition Emancipation Proclamation pamphlet...