Editorial Debate, Spain 2007. 360 pages

Much has been written about the journey, life and myth of Ernesto Che Guevara. However, there are very few historical research studies that yield first hand information (in the form of unpublished documents, oral sources or files) on Che’s adventure in Bolivia, the journey that cost him his life in October 1967.

Juan Ignacio Siles, lecturer and specialist in Latin American guerrillas, has had access to many diaries written by guerrilla fighters. He has also listened to the accounts of peasants who met him, he has retrieved police and military reports written by the officers that witnessed Che’s arrest, and has analysed in detail Che’s Diary in Bolivia with the aim of producing a brilliant and precise, poetical and analytical text where information intertwines with tragedy, facts with feelings and truth with a passional narrative.

Written with the spirit of the best adventure novels, this is a poetical and choral text that depicts one of the pinnacles of the history of the Latin American guerrilla. Landscapes with figures, historical, political and literary evocations; this book portrays in detail the passion and death of one of the icons of the twentieth century.

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