Help With Essay On Che Guevara

[bigtrain.]

I've started an essay on analysing the reasons as to why Che's Bolivian campaign failed but the problem is that I've only got a few sources to deal with. The problem is also that it's a history essay and I need more than a few opinions to analyse. I've searched the web and haven't found any really good articles, and the few books I have are just biographies. If you can suggest any books that I can get from the library (I'll make a trip if you guys can suggest any) or even better if there are any scholarly (or maybe not scholarly) articles on the web which offer interpretations about this topic?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, as would speedy replies because this essay is due in about 5 days, argh!

Thanks in advance

[Si Pinto]

If you can wade through the obvious anti-che rhetoric, this might be useful.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/lib...rt/1985/SDR.htm (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1985/SDR.htm)

[Janus]

Look in the Ernesto Guevara subforum in History. Chances are that you'll find some kind of discussion about it in there.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Make sure you read Che's Bolivian Diary (the real version), and you'll also want the most relevent source of all, which is Manuel 'Barbarroja' Piñeiro's "Che Guevara and the Latin American Revolutionary Movements"

[Comrade Marcel]

Didn't someone post something on here before that dealt with the Revisionist Soviet Union's betrayal of Che's "adventurism" because they didn't want to stir shit up and threaten the Kruschevite "peaceful co-existance" with the U$?

[FatFreeMilk]

Look up the author Paco Ignacio Taibo . I don't remember what the name of his book is but I think I remember reading in there why the Bolivian Campaign didn't work out ( or it might not have been in there but it won't hurt to look).


If you don't have time to go through all that then just look online. In the che forum, on the home home page and with a little google (re)searching you'll definitley find something. Good luck.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

The Barbarroja book is the best source on the subject you'll ever find IMO, and I've been studying it for a few years. Barbarroja was directly involved in planning out the Bolivian mission, the colaboration with FSLN in Nicaragua, etc.

[Karl Marx's Camel]

Mario Monje, lack of support from the peasantry, U.S. training of Bolivian soldiers.