Social sciences

摘要

Interest in Che Guevara-and the number of writers tackling the subject of the revolutionary leader-has yet to subside. Bustos was Guevara's Argentine lieutenant and confidant, as well as an artist and revolutionary in his own right. In this massive memoir, originally published as El Che Qui-ere Verte in 2007, he recalls his days in Cuba, Argentina, Bolivia, and points in between. His memoir is long on names, dates, places, and ideology, difficult to follow at times, and inconclusive on many issues concerning Guevara. Bustos refutes the widespread belief that he betrayed Guevara, pointing a finger instead at fellow revolutionary Regis Debray. After following Guevara to Cuba and Bolivia, all the time plotting for a communist government in Argentina, Bustos was captured in Bolivia in 1967 and spent three years in detention before landing in Chile during the presidency of Salvador Allende.