While this book may be the driest and less inviting reads we have been faced with this class, it is also fair to say that it is probably the most historically important. As the preface and Fidel Castro’s introduction in particular point out, the events Che describes in his Bolivian Diary and his ensuing execution …
Initially, I was surprised that the first part of Steven Soderbergh’s Che showed so little of Guevara`s life before the Cuban Revolution, with only a couple of brief scenes showing him meeting the Castro brothers and looking pensive on the deck of the Granma. However, the point of the film is clearly to depict Che …
While I enjoyed this week’s reading of Che Guevara’s Guerrilla Warfare, I still think it was somewhat held back by its aim of extracting general teachings from the Cuban revolution. If anything, it is very interesting as a historical account of the military strategies and techniques of Fidel’s revolutionary forces, and also provides detail on …
Out of all three of the works we have seen and read on the Mexican Revolution, Cartucho is definitely the one that struck me the most. In a sense, Nellie Campobello’s novel / collection of short stories could be described as the diametric opposite of Kazan and Steinbeck’s Viva Zapata!. Campobello never makes any attempt …