Translated from The Art Server in Belgium:
Portrait of Che Guevara center stage in Tropical Museum
The world wide known portrait from 1960, depicting the revolutionary Che Guevara with beret, will be central at an exhibition next year from 2 February to 6 May at the Amsterdam Tropenmuseum.
The photo was made by Alberto Diaz Gutierrez, aka Alberto Korda.
The photographer of the revolution, as he was called, died in 2001 at 72 in Paris.
His famous photograph was reproduced zillions of times, including on T-shirts and many other objects.
And especially that is the theme of the exhibition: the use and abuse commercially of this famous portrait.
Ernesto Rafael ‘Che’ Guevara de la Serna (1928-1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leader.
US citizens’ right to travel to Cuba: here.
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Tania: Undercover with Che Guevara
in Bolivia
By Ulises Estrada
“Tania” is a gripping account of the extraordinary woman who fought and died alongside Che Guevara in Bolivia. As her companero in Cuba, Ulises Estrada is uniquely placed to provide a candid political biography of a passionate and intelligent young woman, fearlessly dedicated to the liberation of Latin America in the 1960s.
Tania became one of Cuba’s most successful agents in Latin America, penetrating Bolivian high society and preparing the way for Che Guevara’s clandestine entry into the country.
Ulises Estrada was a central figure in Cuba’s support for revolutionary and liberation movements in Latin America and Africa. He was a key organizer of Che Guevara’s guerrilla mission to Bolivia.
Buy with companion book: The Bolivian Diary by Che Guevara
Paperback, 327pp, 16 pages of photos, appendices include messages from Tania, her mother’s request to Fidel Castro to have Tania’s remains buried in Cuba, Fidel’s reply and Fidel Castro’s speech at the burial of the remains of Che Guevara.
A Daughter’s Recollection of Che:
DVD: Aleida Guevara,Remembers Her Father Che
Aleida Guevara remembers with great tenderness the man the world knows as Che.
This moving documentary reveals the extraordinary bond between her parents and describes a side to Che previously unseen — Che the loving husband and father.Aleida recounts several fascinating anecdotes from her childhood and describes coming to terms with her father’s decision to go to Bolivia, as well as her own decision to follow in his footsteps as a doctor and social activist.Aleida Guevara is the eldest daughter of Ernesto Che Guevara and Aleida March. She works as a pediatrician in Havana, Cuba, and is an international activist for social justice.A bilingual DVD, 34 minutes, color, Spanish with English subtitles
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Monday 15th
posted by Morning Star in Arts
A memoir by Che Guevara’s brother provides acute insights into the revolutionary icon, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
Che, My Brother
by Juan Martin Guevara
(Polity, £20)
GIVEN the number of biographies of Ernesto “Che” Guevara published in the half century since his assassination, many writers would probably struggle to find anything original to write about him.
But Che’s youngest brother Juan Martin Guevara is able to offer an unparalleled insight into the family life, background, influences and early experiences that helped to form the legendary revolutionary.
His stated purpose is to take Che down from the cross, “to get people to know Che as more than a myth,” and understand how he was made so that more people like Che might emerge to wage the struggle — not necessarily guerilla warfare but broad, political, struggle for the values Che fought for.
The world desperately needs people with the intellect, passion, commitment and heroism of Che and his brother’s book seeks to inspire the emergence of such people. “It is important to understand that Ernesto began as a normal and even ordinary person, who became an exceptional person that others can and should emulate,” Guevara writes.
His family were not salt-of-the-earth workers or humble indigenous peasants — they were highly educated middle-class bohemians. How did such a family produce a fierce proletarian revolutionary such as Che?
Guevara explains that there was always a strong sense of social justice in the family, combined with a profound commitment to study and to freedom of thought: “At home, everyone was free to think more or less what he or she wanted, provided of course we didn’t support fascist ideas.
“Our home was a meeting place for many politically active characters. This hyper-politicised family atmosphere would shape Che.”
Even in childhood, Che had a strong character — purposeful, self-disciplined, resourceful, principled and adventurous. In addition, he was a voracious reader and, “taking advantage of every free moment to delve into some volume or other,” consumed on average a book a day.
He distinguished himself from other middle-class young people in that he was willing and able to get to know the poor and was therefore exposed to the appalling poverty, inequality, oppression and injustice that exist in class society.
His intellect, character and experiences — along with fortuitously meeting Fidel Castro and his comrades in Mexico — combined to turn the young Ernesto Guevara into the immortal Che.
Lively and endearing, Guevara’s work tells the story of his famous brother’s early years, along with his own story of struggle against the Argentinian dictatorship, for which he suffered eight years in prison in appalling conditions.
By no means the definitive biography, it is valuable as a means of better understanding Che and the Guevara family.
As a political disciple of Che, Guevara has his own interpretation of “Guevarismo,” which he emphasises is very different to socialism as practised in the Soviet Union. He even goes so far as to state that he suspects the KGB of having collaborated with the CIA to eliminate Che in Bolivia although, with no proof offered, this is not a helpful addition to the book.
Che certainly had his critique of Soviet socialism. But he was alive to the subtlety and complexity of politics, could see the contradictions and problems faced by the Soviet Union and had the self-discipline not to go too far in open criticism.
After all, Soviet support was decisive in the survival of socialist Cuba, as has been recognised many times by Fidel and Raul Castro.
Small flaws such as this aside, this is an insightful and valuable book.
http://morningstaronline.co.uk/a-dc3f-The-man-behind-the-myth#.WRtRSdykIdU
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