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“Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the
atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native
Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted
that “the country will be in the hands of white
Gaucho savages instead of copper-coloured Indians.
The former being a little superior in education,
as they are inferior in every moral virtue.”
― Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native
Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted
that “the country will be in the hands of white
Gaucho savages instead of copper-coloured Indians.
The former being a little superior in education,
as they are inferior in every moral virtue.”
― Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
“There are different versions, but according to legend, Che’s last words, when Terán came through the door to shoot him, were: “I know you’ve come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.”
― Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
― Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
“To die with dignity does not require company”
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“Ibsen: “Education is the capacity to confront the situations posed by life.”
― Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
― Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
“I realize that something that was growing inside of me for some time ... has matured: and it is the hate of civilization, the absurd image of people moving like locos to the rhythm of that tremendous noise that seems to me like the hateful antithesis of peace.”
― Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
― Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
“Turning back to Salta, he reappeared at the hospital and was asked by the staff what he had seen on his journey. “In truth, what do I see?” he reflected. “At least I am not nourished in the same ways as the tourists, and I find it strange to find, on the tourist brochures of Jujuy, for example, the Altar of the Fatherland, the cathedral where the national ensign was blessed, the jewel of the pulpit and the miraculous little virgin of Río Blanco and Pompeii. ... No, one doesn’t come to know a country or find an interpretation of life in this way. That is a luxurious façade, while its true soul is reflected in the sick of the hospitals, the detainees in the police stations or the anxious passersby one gets to know, as the Río Grande shows the turbulence of its swollen level from underneath.”
― Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
― Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
“In the anti-Communist atmosphere of the Cold War, U.S. support of right-wing military dictatorships -Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua, Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Manuel Odria in Peru, and Marcos Pérez Jiménez in Venezuela - at the expense of outspoken nationalists or left-wing regimes, was rationalized in the name of national security.”
― Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
― Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
“He would wordlessly light up his pungent antiasthma cigarettes in the middle of class and debate openly with his mathematics and literature teachers about inaccuracies he's caught them in.”
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“One day in May 1930, Celia took her twoyear-
old son for a swim at the yacht club, but it
was already the onset of the Argentine winter,
cold and windy. That night, the little boy had
a coughing fit. A doctor diagnosed him as suffering
from asthmatic bronchitis and prescribed
the normal remedies, but the attack lasted for
several days. Ernestito had developed chronic
asthma, which would afflict him for the rest of
his life and irrevocably change the course of his
parents’ lives.”
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old son for a swim at the yacht club, but it
was already the onset of the Argentine winter,
cold and windy. That night, the little boy had
a coughing fit. A doctor diagnosed him as suffering
from asthmatic bronchitis and prescribed
the normal remedies, but the attack lasted for
several days. Ernestito had developed chronic
asthma, which would afflict him for the rest of
his life and irrevocably change the course of his
parents’ lives.”
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“Indeed, his time in Cuba had already shown Che that the revolution was not going to be won by a fraternity of high-minded souls. Among the rebel ranks were any number of scoundrels: former rustlers, fugitive murderers, juvenile delinquents.”
― Che: A Revolutionary Life
― Che: A Revolutionary Life
“place”
― Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
― Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
“My house on wheels will have two feet once again and my dreams no frontiers, at least until the bullets have their say. I await you, sedentary gypsy, when the smell of gunpowder dissipates.”
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“with Ernestito riding on the front of his father’s
saddle; and river excursions aboard the Kid, a
wooden launch with a four-berth cabin that Ernesto
had built at the Astillero San Isidro. Once,
they traveled upriver to the famous Iguazú falls,
where the Argentine and Brazilian borders
meet, and watched the clouds of vapor rise from
the brown cascades that roar down from the virgin
jungle cliffs.”
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saddle; and river excursions aboard the Kid, a
wooden launch with a four-berth cabin that Ernesto
had built at the Astillero San Isidro. Once,
they traveled upriver to the famous Iguazú falls,
where the Argentine and Brazilian borders
meet, and watched the clouds of vapor rise from
the brown cascades that roar down from the virgin
jungle cliffs.”
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“Hice la amarga reflexión de que quedábamos 13. Uno más que los que tuvo Fidel tras el desembarco del 'Granma'... Pero no era el mismo jefe." --Ernesto Guevara”
― Che: una vida revolucionaria. El sacrificio necesario
― Che: una vida revolucionaria. El sacrificio necesario
