http://www.smh.com.au/world/cuba-releases-guevaras-revolution-diary-20110614-1g1xx.html
Cuba releases Guevara's revolution diary June 15, 2011 Publishing sensation ... revolutionary and diarist Che Guevara, left. Photo: AFP HAVANA: Cuba has published the diary revolutionary icon Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara kept during the guerrilla campaign that brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959. Diary of a Combatant recounts Che's experience from the landing, on December 2, 1956, of a band of revolutionaries aboard the yacht Granma, and their three-year armed struggle in Cuba's Sierra Maestra. Published by the Australian firm Ocean Press/Ocean Sur, the book was edited by the Che Guevara Studies Centre, which is directed by his widow, Aleida March. Guevara's diary of his ill-fated guerrilla campaign in Bolivia, where he was executed by the military on October 9, 1967, was a publishing sensation when it appeared in 1968. Born in Rosario, Argentina, on June 14, 1928, Guevara met Castro in Mexico City in 1955 and joined the expedition of the Granma, which left Mexico with 82 men on board to overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. During the campaign in the Sierra Maestra, Guevara was the first member of the band to be promoted to the top rank of ''comandante'' by Castro, and after their victory he held the positions of minister of industries and president of the central bank. In 1960 he published a manual on guerrilla warfare and in 1963 an account of the Sierra Maestra campaign titled Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War. In 1965 he left Cuba with about 100 soldiers to foment a revolution in what was then the Belgian Congo. It failed and he returned to Cuba to prepare for the campaign in Bolivia. His remains were recovered in Bolivia by a Cuban-Argentina forensic team in 1997 and transferred to Cuba, where they are buried in a war memorial in Santa Clara, about 280 kilometres east of Havana. Agence France-Presse Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/cuba-releases-guevaras-revolution-diary-20110614-1g1xx.html#ixzz1PGfakOL7 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
