Congo Diary: Episodes of the Revolutionary War in the Congo

Congo Diary: Episodes of the Revolutionary War in the Congo

By Ernesto Che Guevara

"Published in Spanish as "Pasajes de la Guerra revolucionaria: Congo," ISBN 9781920888794."

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Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publish Date: 11/02/2021
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781644210727
ISBN-10: 164421072X
Language: English

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Ernesto Che Guevara's diary of his revolutionary struggle in Congo alongside Cuban guerrillas. In April 1965, Che Guevara set out clandestinely from Havana to Congo to head a force of some 200 veteran Cuban soldiers to assist the African liberation movement against Belgian colonialists, four years after the assassination of the democratically elected socialist president of Congo, Patrice Lumumba. This diary deals with what Che admits was a "failure," and he examines every painful detail about what went wrong in order to draw constructive lessons for planned future guerrilla movements. Unique among his books, Congo Diary gives us Che's brutal honesty and his story-telling ability as he recounts this fascinating episode of guerrilla warfare unblinkingly and without sugar coating or jargon. Considered by some to be Che's best book, it is also one of the few that he had a chance to edit for publication after writing it.

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ERNESTO GUEVARA DE LA SERNA was born in Rosario, Argentina, on June 14, 1928. During his medical studies in Buenos Aires, he took a trip with his friend Alberto Granado on an old Norton motorcycle through all of Latin America, the basis for The Motorcycle Diaries. Living in Guatemala in 1954--then under the elected government of Jacobo Arbenz--he became involved in political activity there and was an eyewitness to the overthrow of that government in a CIA-organized military operation.

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