Latin America Diaries: The Sequel to The Motorcycle Diaries

by Ernesto Che Guevara, Alberto Granado (Foreword by)

Overview

The sequel to The Motorcycle Diaries, this book is Ernesto Che Guevera's journal documenting the young Argentine's second trip through Latin America, revealing the emergence of a committed revolutionary.

These letters, poetry, and journalism document young Ernesto Guevara's second Latin American journey following his graduation from medical school in 1953. Together, these writings reveal how the young Argentine is transformed into a militant revolutionary.

After traveling through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Central America, Ernesto witnesses the 1954 US-inspired coup in Guatemala, which has a profound effect on his political awareness. He flees to Mexico where he encounters Fidel Castro, marking the beginning of a political partnership that profoundly changes the world and Che himself. Includes a foreword by Alberto Granado, Che's companion on his first adventures in Latin America on a vintage Norton motorcycle, and features poems written by young Ernesto inspired by his experiences along with facsimiles of pages from his diary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781644211014
Publisher:	Seven Stories Press
Publication date:	06/20/2023
Series:	The Che Guevara Library
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	981,608
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

ERNESTO GUEVARA DE LA SERNA was born in Rosario, Argentina, on June 14, 1928. While studying for a medical degree 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. During his travels he witnessed the Bolivian revolution in 1953; and, in Guatemala in 1954, the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz by US-backed forces. Forced to leave Guatemala, he went to Mexico City, where he linked up with exiled Cuban revolutionaries and met Fidel Castro in 1955. Che joined their expedition to Cuba, where the revolutionary war began in the Sierra Maestra mountains. At first Che was the troop doctor, and later became Rebel Army commander in July 1957.  Following the rebels’ victory on January 1, 1959, he was a key leader of the new revolutionary government and also of the political organization that in 1965 became the Communist Party of Cuba. 


Born in Argentina in 1922, ALBERTO GRANADO was Che's companion on his first motorcycle adventure in Latin America, chronicled in the New York Times Bestseller The Motorcycle Diaries. A doctor and biochemist, Granado lived and worked in Venezuela for several years before moving to Cuba in 1961, where he co-founded the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Santiago. He authored the memoir Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary, and retired in 1994.

Table of Contents

Chronology of Ernesto Che Guevara 1

Maps 5

Editorial note 7

Note to the reader 11

Foreword Alberto Granado 15

Latin America Diaries

Departure 23

Bolivia 24

Peru 31

Ecuador 40

Panama 46

Costa Rica 51

Nicaragua 51

Guatemala 60

El Salvador 76

Guatemala 78

Mexico 109

Appendices

Journalism:

A View from the Banks of the Giant of Rivers 147

Machu-Picchu: Stone Enigma of the Americas 155

The Dilemma of Guatemala 163

Poems:

A los mineros de Bolivia (To the Bolivian Miners) (April 9) 166

Invitación al camino (An Invitation to Travel) (December 1954) 168

Newspaper reports of Ernesto Guevara during this trip 170

Facsimiles of the diary 176