Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution - Writings and Speeches of Ernesto Che Guevara

Ernesto Che Guevara, born in Argentina, met Fidel Castro in Mexico in 1955 and joined the strugggle to overthrow the US-backed dictatorship in Cuba. Guevara became a central leader of the Cuban revolutionary government. In 1967, while fighting as a guerrilla in Bolivia, he was captured and assassinated. In this wide-ranging sekection of articles and speeches, Guevara discusses the Guerrilla war that brought the Cuban revolution to victory; Cuban land reforms and efforts to overcome economic backwardness in the face of invasion and blockade by Washington; developing a new social consciousness, a new human being, in a society on the road to socialism; and Cuba's commitment to freedom struggles in Asia, Africa and the Americas...