Word: guevera
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tania. Maxine Klein's musical work about Tamara Burke, who fought and died with Che Guevera in Bolivia. At the Little Flags Theater Collective, Boston Center for the Arts, 551 Tremont Street, Thursday at 8 p.m. and Saturday...
...lyricism and images of loneliness and alienation contrasted sharply with the optimistic idealism permeating Lyndon Johnson's America. Johnson's heroes were winners--"Lucky" Lindbergh, Andrew Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt--men who made it. The heroes of the sixties were losers who survived or martyrs. Malcolm X and Che Guevera became symbols of the age. Again and again, the words of these two figures could be found in pamphlets, in underground newspapers, in conversation. The young not only kept posters on their walls, but copied the hair, the beard, the beret and the style. The cult of failure spread...
...Guevera left Cuba in 1965, according to Karol, on very amicable terms with Fidel. Che hoped to single handedly open a second front of Latin America to bog doyn the American imperialist machine and ease the pressure on the Vietnamese. The slogan "one, two, three, many Vietnams," summarized the new strategy of adopting the Sierra Madre experience to all Latin American revolutions...