Che Wants to See You

Che Wants to See You
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The Untold Story of Che Guevara

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فرمت کتاب

ebook

تاریخ انتشار

2013

نویسنده

Anne Wright

ناشر

Verso Books

شابک

9781781683361
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Publisher's Weekly

Starred review from June 10, 2013
After 40 years of keeping his tale largely private, Bustos, a crucial member of Che's operation to launch an Argentine revolution, delivers a seamless memoir that relates his role and Che's plans for South America before the latter's 1967 execution by the CIA in Bolivia. Bustos left Buenos Aires for Cuba soon after Castro's revolutionâhe'd heard a radio broadcast from Cuba in which Che had placed the Cuban struggle in the context of achieving Latin American self-determination. In Havana's suspicious atmosphere his loyalty and identity were questioned, which continued across a decade of reconnaissance for Che throughout South America and Europe. He narrates with nuance his devotion to Che as well as doubts about their enterprise's feasibility. In one absurdist drama, Bustos answers a mysterious invitation to China, refuses to repudiate Castro, and is promptly sent home. Castro eventually abandons the Argentine project: "Havana had taken off its earphones and pulled down its antennae." In prison, Bustos denies all guerilla activity and is eventually granted asylum in Sweden. Bustos's powers of observation and critical commentary make this required reading for both historians of revolution and future world-changers.



Library Journal

June 15, 2013

Interest in Che Guevara--and the number of writers tackling the subject of the revolutionary leader--has yet to subside. Bustos was Guevara's Argentine lieutenant and confidant, as well as an artist and revolutionary in his own right. In this massive memoir, originally published as El Che Quiere Verte in 2007, he recalls his days in Cuba, Argentina, Bolivia, and points in between. His memoir is long on names, dates, places, and ideology, difficult to follow at times, and inconclusive on many issues concerning Guevara. Bustos refutes the widespread belief that he betrayed Guevara, pointing a finger instead at fellow revolutionary Regis Debray. After following Guevara to Cuba and Bolivia, all the time plotting for a communist government in Argentina, Bustos was captured in Bolivia in 1967 and spent three years in detention before landing in Chile during the presidency of Salvador Allende. He returned to Argentina in 1973 and finally sought asylum in Sweden, where he lives today, in 1976. Bustos successfully depicts much of the revolutionary fervor so widespread in Latin America during the period. VERDICT With insights and recollections that are useful in filling gaps in the Guevara legend, this volume will be valuable for comprehensive collections on Guevara and the revolution he sought, even though the book is less about Guevara than Bustos.--Boyd Childress, formerly with Auburn Univ. Libs., AL

Copyright 2013 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.



Booklist

June 1, 2013
This enriching work about Che, the still revered and despised icon of revolution, is primarily concerned with the last gasp of his career: his ill-fated guerrilla campaign in Bolivia in 1967. Bustos was an Argentine artist and Marxist who had participated in Che's earlier, failed effort to instigate a revolution in Argentina. In 1966, he was contacted by Cuban intelligence and agreed to enter Bolivia clandestinely to assist Guevera's efforts to create a foco in Bolivia, which would spread violent revolution to neighboring nations. Bustos was ill equipped to handle the physical demands of the campaign, and he was captured by Bolivian rangers. His account offers some useful insights into the difficulties the efforts entailed and the mistakes made. Long despised for his betrayal of Che for his revelations under interrogation, Bustos tries here to exonerate himself, although he isn't particularly convincing.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)




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