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"Ese vagar sin rumbo por nuestra 'Mayuscula Amrica' me ha cambiado ms de lo que cre." --Ernesto Che Guevara, de Diarios de Motocicleta Diarios de Motocicleta es el diario de viaje del Che Guevara, viaje en el que descubre el continente de Amrica Latina mientras es estudiante de medicina, comenzando en 1952 manejando una antigua motocicleta Norton junto a su amigo Alberto Granado, un bioqumico. Captura, se puede argumentar, inigualablemente a cualquier otro libro, la exuberancia y alegra de una persona joven con la firme conviccin que la humanidad tiende hacia la justicia, la paz y la felicidad. Despus del estreno en 2004 de la estimulante pelcula con el mismo ttulo, dirigida por Walter Salles, el libro se volvi un internacional xito de ventas, nombrado como tal por el New York Times.
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, commonly known as El Che or simply Che, was a Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, since his death Guevara's stylized visage has become an ubiquitous countercultural symbol and global icon within popular culture. His belief in the necessity of world revolution to advance the interests of the poor prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Arbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow solidified Guevara's radical ideology. Later, while living in Mexico City, he met Raúl and , joined their movement, and travelled to Cuba with the intention of overthrowing the U.S.-backed Batista regime. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second-in-command, and played a pivotal role in the successful two year guerrilla campaign that topled the Cuban government. After serving in a number of key roles in the new government, Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to foment revolution abroad, first unsuccessfully in Congo-Kinshasa and later in Bolivia, where he was captured by CIA-assisted Bolivian forces and executed. Guevara remains both a revered and reviled historical figure, polarized in the collective imagination in a multitude of biographies, memoirs, essays, documentaries, songs, and films. magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century, while an Alberto Korda photograph of him entitled "Guerrillero Heroico," was declared "the most famous photograph in the world" by the Maryland Institute of Art.
