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CS 424 Taibah Universty Parallel Algorithm Design Project Report I have a quiz in (CS424-Introduction to Parallel Computing) u gonna need to write a code and report about it. I’m gonna send u the pictures. Praise for Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life:
“A masterly and absorbing account of Latin America’s famous guerrilla leader … Anderson’s book, easily the best so
far on Guevara, is a worthy monument to a flawed but heroic Utopian dreamer.”
—The Sunday Times (London)
“Remarkable … Anderson’s account is well rounded and far from uncritical … [his] journalistic flair and hard legwork
are evident.”
—Foreign Affairs
“Exceptional and exciting … Anderson’s up-close look, with beauty marks and tragic flaws so effortlessly rendered,
brings the reader face to face with a man whose unshakable faith in his beliefs was made more powerful by his
unusual combination of romantic passion and a coldly analytical mind. … An invaluable addition to the literature of
American revolutionaries.”
—Booklist
“A solidly documented biography that succeeds, with brilliant effect, in stripping away the layers of demonization
and hero worship that for so long have concealed the human core of this legendary figure … Thanks to Jon Lee
Anderson, we now have the true story, the real man, a portrait of exceptional substance to confound the myth and
enhance our understanding of the facts.”
—The Kansas City Star
“Jon Lee Anderson … draws upon an unprecedented wealth of new information … [an] assiduously researched and
perhaps definitive biography.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“A skillful interviewer, Anderson elicited information from dozens of participants in Guevara’s life. … Combining
contradictory sources and an immense amount of detail, Anderson produces a multifaceted view of Guevara as a
person, seething with ambiguities and complexities. This is an achievement that makes Che Guevara essential for
anyone seriously interested in Guevara or the Cuban revolution.”
—The Nation
“Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life gives an admirably balanced account of the Argentine adventurer, his real
achievements and glamorous Robin Hood appeal. … An excellent guide to the myth behind the martyr.”
—The Independent (London)
“The best [biography of Guevara] is Anderson’s epic. … A book that puts the evolution back in revolution, a
meticulous record of this extraordinary life.”
—Newsday
“It is Anderson’s careful research that will define Guevara for the future.”
—The Denver Post
“A thorough and unbiased biography of a little-understood man … who remains a father figure to modern-day
revolutionaries around the world … A book that sees the forest for the trees, and in a life as complicated and
significant as Che Guevara’s, that was no small task.”
—The Oregonian
“Detailed … the book tells as much as is likely to be known about Guevara’s end. … As Mr. Anderson tells it, Che
lives.”
—The Economist
“The merit of Anderson’s work lies not only in the richness of details, but also in its objectivity. … Anderson’s book
recounts in minute detail the chronology of an obsession.”
—Latin Trade
“A sweeping biography of the Latino revolutionary and pop-culture hero. Anderson … steers clear of ideology,
arguing that the Argentine-born Guevara was both a brilliant tactician and fighter and the truest representative of the
old international communist agitator the State Department warned us about. … Students of Che’s life and deeds need
look no further than Anderson’s volume.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Jon Lee Anderson has rediscovered the historical Guevara, and his authoritative biography goes far in obliterating
all the sentimental dross that has accrued around the figure of the heroic guerrilla.”
—The New York Press
“You would do well to read Jon Lee Anderson’s monumental biography, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life. … The
book’s mere table of contents could serve as the syllabus for Che 101.”
—The Washington Post Book World
“[Anderson] has researched diligently and has had access to much unpublished documentation. … This biography is
… absorbing and convincing because of its wealth of new information and willingness to let Guevara himself speak,
in quotations from unpublished letters and diaries. … An indispensable work of contemporary history.”
—The Guardian (London)
“Five years of research and unprecedented access to friends, family, and unpublished archives have allowed
Anderson to fulfill his stated aim, to present the truth about Che Guevara.”
—Literary Review
“A massive, painstaking biography of the Argentine guerrilla leader who devoted his life to the ideal of a unified
Latin American revolution.”
—Buzz
“A revealing portrait of the many Ches: the quixotic, freewheeling youth rambling around South and Central America
in search of the good fight; the willful, asthmatic ‘Jacobin of the Cuban Revolution’; and finally … the holy martyr of
armed rebellion at age thirty-nine … Che lives on as a paradox of his own time and ours.”
—Time Out New York
“Jon Lee Anderson’s authoritative new biography shows both the passionate idealist and the cold-hearted
disciplinarian.”
—Newsweek
“Vividly detailed … Anderson weaves a compelling psychological profile of Guevara.”
—The Buffalo News
“Che Guevara by Jon Lee Anderson may still be the best [biography of Che] for its deft style and its details of Che’s
post-Cuba adventures. It is also the only one to carry interviews with Che’s widow, Aleida.”
—Publishers Weekly
“His biography appears to be definitive. … Obviously a reporter of great energy and enterprise, he scored at least two
major scoops in his research: obtaining Che’s uncensored diary of the guerrilla war in Cuba and discovering more or
less where Che’s body was buried in Bolivia … genuinely gripping.”
—Harper’s
“[Anderson] manages to reflect his subject’s ‘special gleam,’ the mix of qualities that made the Argentine-born
adventurer irresistible to those of his contemporaries bent upon the violent overthrow of governments, and a durable
icon for succeeding generations of revolutionaries. Che Guevara is the best treatment of its subject to date … because
the patient reader can distill from it a vivid sense of Che the man.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Exhaustive and convincing.”
—The New York Review of Books
“Among the remarkable things about Jon Lee Anderson’s monumental biography … is its distinction as the first
serious attempt in English to chronicle Guevara’s life. In this the book is an enduring achievement. Other biographies
are in the works, but it is hard to imagine that any will match the volume and detail of the research here. More
important, Anderson has rescued Guevara as an essentially American figure, in the hemispheric sense of the word,
one whose victories and failures, equally spectacular, are part of our common history. … Che lives, not only in this
book but in the world.”
—The Boston Globe
“Excellent … admirably honest [and] staggeringly researched … It is unlikely that after Anderson’s exhaustive
contribution, much more will be learned about Guevara.”
—Los Angeles Times
Also by Jon Lee Anderson
The Fall of Baghdad
The Lion’s Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan
Guerrillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World
Inside the League (with Scott Anderson)
War Zones (with Scott Anderson)
Che Guevara
Che Guevara
A REVOLUTIONARY LIFE
Revised Edition
Jon Lee Anderson
Copyright © 1997 by Jon Lee Anderson
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For Erica
And in memory of my mother,
Barbara Joy Anderson,
1928–1994
Contents
Introduction to the Revised Edition
Part One Unquiet Youth
1 A Plantation in Misiones
2 The Dry Climate of Alta Gracia
3 The Boy of Many Names
4 His Own Man
5 Escape to the North
6 I Am Not the Person I Was Before
7 Without Knowing Which Way Is North
8 Finding North
9 Days without Shame or Glory
10 A Terrible Shower of Cold Water
11 My Proletarian Life
12 God and His New Right Hand
13 The Sacred Flame within Me
Part Two Becoming Che
14 A Disastrous Beginning
15 Days of Water and Bombs
16 Lean Cows and Horsemeat
17 Enemies of All Kinds
18 Extending the War
19 The Final Push
Part Three Making the New Man
20 The Supreme Prosecutor
21 My Historic Duty
22 We Are the Future and We Know It
23 Individualism Must Disappear
24 These Atomic Times
25 Guerrilla Watershed
26 The Long Good-Bye
27 The Story of a Failure
28 No Turning Back
29 Necessary Sacrifice
Epilogue: Dreams and Curses
Notes
Sources
Selected Bibliography
Maps
Chronology
Acknowledgments
Index
Credits for Photographs
Che Guevara
Ernesto “Che” Guevara, 1960.
Introduction to the Revised Edition
I became interested in Che Guevara in the late 1980s, while researching a book about modern-day guerrillas. Nearly a
generation had elapsed since the poster bearing Alberto Korda’s portrait of Che in the black beret with the star pin
first adorned so many college dorm walls. That era had drawn to a raggedy end with the demise of the student protest
movement, when the Vietnam War was over. But in the insurgent backwoods of Burma, El Salvador, the Western
Sahara, and Afghanistan, Che endured as a role model and as an almost mystical symbol of veneration. He inspired
new generations of fighters and dreamers because of the revolutionary principles he represented—fearlessness, selfsacrifice, honesty, and devotion to the cause.
There were few books about Che still in print then. Most were twenty years old and were either official Cuban
hagiographies or equally tiresome demonizations written by his ideological foes. Che’s life had yet to be written
because much of it was still cloaked in secrecy, not least the mysterious circumstances of his final hours in Bolivia in
1967. Even the whereabouts of his body was unknown.
Who was this man who had given up everything he cherished in order to fight and die on a foreign battlefield? At
the age of thirty-six he left behind his wife and five children and his ministerial position and commander’s rank in
order to spark off new revolutions. And what had compelled a well-born, intellectual Argentinian with a medical
diploma to try to change the world in the first place? Unravelling the mysteries of Che’s life story would shed light
on some of the most fascinating episodes of the Cold War and bring into sharper focus one of its central characters.
It seemed to me that the answers to most of the questions about Che lay in Cuba, and in 1992 I went to Havana,
where I met with his widow, Aleida March. I told her of my plan to write a biography of her late husband, and I
asked for her cooperation and assistance. She eventually agreed. A few months later I moved to Havana with my wife
and three young children for a stay that stretched into nearly three years. It was a bleak moment for Cubans. The
Soviet Union had suddenly ceased to exist, bringing to an abrupt end the generous financial subsidies that had
sustained Cuba for the past three decades. But even as his country’s economy disintegrated, Fidel Castro held the
socialist banner stubbornly aloft and, invoking Che’s example, demanded revolutionary fortitude and sacrifices from
his countrymen.
The biggest challenge for me was to break through the sanctimonious atmosphere that surrounded Che’s memory.
Che was virtually the patron saint of Cuba, and the reminiscences of people who had once known him were often
cravenly laudatory or unabashedly politically deterministic. It wasn’t until I spent several months roaming around
Argentina in the company of Che’s boyhood friends that the man—the young Che Guevara—began to emerge as a
believable figure. Finally, back in Havana, I was given privileged access to some of his then unpublished diaries,
which helped explain the boy’s transfomation into the legendary Che.
One morning in November 1995, when I was in Bolivia to interview everyone I could find who had had anything
to do with Che’s guerrilla efforts there, I went to Santa Cruz to see Mario Vargas Salinas, a retired general in his early
fifties. As a young army officer in 1967, Vargas Salinas became famous for leading an ambush on the Masicuri River
that wiped out Che’s second column. Che’s German companion, Tania, and eight other fighters were killed. The
massacre on the Masicuri marked the beginning of the end for Che. A little over a month later, on October 8, 1967, he
was cornered in a canyon by a large number of army troops. Che was wounded and taken captive. The next day, on
the orders of the Bolivian military high command, and in the presence of a CIA agent, he was shot dead. After
announcing that Che had died in battle, the army displayed his body to the public for a day in the nearby town of
Vallegrande. Photographs were taken of the shirtless, bullet-riddled corpse. Che lay on his back with his head
propped up, his eyes open. A resemblance to images of the dead Christ was apparent to everyone. That night, Che’s
body, and those of several of his comrades, vanished. His enemies intended to deny him a burial place where
admirers might pay homage. One army officer later said, vaguely, that Che’s body had been tossed out of an airplane
into the jungle. Another officer claimed that the corpse had been incinerated.
Mario Vargas Salinas turned out to be an unusually amiable and candid man. We ended up spending over three
hours talking in his walled garden in Santa Cruz, and I discovered that he was willing to discuss subjects that were
controversial. At one point he acknowledged that his soldiers had executed one of Che’s wounded fighters. Vargas
Salinas’s frankness prompted me to ask him about Che’s body, although I did not really expect an honest answer. I
was stunned when he replied that he wanted to come clean with the past. He said that after Che was killed, his hands
were amputated. Fingerprints were made to preserve physical proof of the body’s identity, and the hands were placed
in formaldehyde and hidden away. Then a nocturnal burial squad, which Vargas Salinas was part of, secretly dumped
the bodies of Che and several of his comrades into a mass grave. The grave had been bulldozed into the dirt airstrip at
Vallegrande.
When I wrote an article about Vargas Salinas’s confession for The New York Times, the effect in Bolivia was both
immediate and dramatic. President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada said he had heard that I had invented the whole story
after getting Vargas Salinas drunk. Vargas Salinas, meanwhile, went into hiding and issued a statement denying
everything. At a press conference in La Paz, I pointed out that I had a tape recording of the interview and suggested
that the former general might be under duress of some sort. Vargas Salinas soon recanted his statement and verified
the accuracy of my story, but he remained in hiding. Then, in a remarkable turnaround, President Sanchez de Lozada
announced that he was reversing decades of official secrecy, and he ordered that a commission be formed to look for
the bodies.
Over the weeks to come, the spectacle of former guerrillas, soldiers, and forensic experts digging holes in and
around Vallegrande opened many old wounds and revealed the nastier details of an era in which Bolivia’s powerful
military had gotten away, quite literally, with murder. From the 1960s and into the 1980s, a succession of dictators
had run the country. Under their hamfisted and often brutal rule, hundreds of citizens had been “disappeared.” Now,
encouraged by the hunt for Che Guevara’s body, people began clamouring for justice and for information about their
loved ones. There were also angry demonstrations by former soldiers who had fought against Che’s band as youthful
conscripts, men who in some cases had suffered grievous wounds and received no disability pensions, or any
pensions at all. They too demanded their rights.
The past had been stirred up. Bolivia’s military chiefs complied with the president’s order, but they were furious
with Vargas Salinas over his betrayal. He was flown into Villegrande on a small plane, and as he strolled around the
airstrip, flanked by two unsmiling army generals, a scrum of reporters crowded close to him. After about thirty
minutes, he declared that he could not pinpoint Che’s burial spot. It had been “too many years.” He and his escorts
then climbed back into their plane and flew away. Days later, word spread that the army had placed Vargas Salinas
under house arrest. It was several years before he was heard from again.
The search effort in Vallegrande yielded nothing at first. After several fruitless weeks, the generals in charge of the
commission made it clear they wanted to stop looking, and they headed off to La Paz to make their case to the
president. A few hours after they left, however, some local peasants, who had until then been too terrified to come
forward, revealed the location of a burial site they had known about for years. It was a lonely spot in the forest a
couple of miles out of town. It did not take long to confirm what they said. There, in several shallow graves, lay the
remains of four of Che’s comrades.
The eleventh-hour discovery put an end to the military’s brinksman-ship. The search resumed with renewed vigor,
but, before long, the trail went cold again. It wasn’t for another sixteen months, in July 1997, that Che’s skeleton was
finally discovered by a Cuban-Argentine forensic team. The thirty-year conspiracy of deception was finally over. The
skeleton lay together with six others at the bottom of a pit dug under the Vallegrande airstrip—just as Vargas Salinas
had said. Che was stretched out full length at the base of the pit, face up, as if special care had been taken in laying
him there. The other bodies had been dumped in a promiscuously tangled heap next to him. Che’s hands had been
amputated at the wrists.
The remains were exhumed and placed in coffins and flown to Cuba, where they were received in an emotional
private ceremony that included Fidel and Raúl Castro. Three months later, on October 10, 1997, at the beginning of a
week of official mourning in Cuba, Fidel and Raúl paid their respects formally. The coffins of Che and his six
comrades lay in state at the José Martí monument, an obelisk in the center of the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana.
For the next few days, an estimated 250,000 people waited in line for hours to file past. Children left letters to Che.
Weeping men and women recited poems and sang revolutionary songs. Then the flag-draped coffins were driven
slowly in a motorcade to the city of Santa Clara, which Che had conquered in the final and most decisive battle of
Cuba’s revolutionary war, almost forty years earlier. He and his comrades were interred there in a mausoleum that
had been built to honor the Heroic Guerrilla.
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