13/09/2017
This international drama played out 50 years ago and focused the entire world’s attention on Bolivia. See where it all happened - and understand what it means - like never before.
He wasn’t particularly a good man, but he makes one hell of a legend. In fact, Che Guevara was in some ways a ruthless man who died in much the form he did a lot of things, shot summarily for what he thought and what he might do; no trial for what he actually did do, although that might have legally merited his ex*****on. Che did, however, do one thing most people don’t -- and that to put his life on the line in a manner consistent with what he said he believed. We tend to admire that, even if is not clear what it is we are admiring… Still, today Che is widely revered (in parts despised) across the globe and one of the most legendary political figures in world history.
This historical excursion aims to clarify a few things, to understand the greatness that has lived 50 years now. This is an excursion into the details of world history threading between the myth of the man, and the history of events that influenced the world from Washington to Moscow and just about every capital in between in the 1960’s,’70s and even today. In many ways Che was a philosophical purist and this earned him enemies in the Soviet Union and other communist camps, including Cuba where he is low lionized and revered. It is a history that played out in the mountains near Santa Cruz, a history of non-descript foothills where a life ended, and a legend took hold. Now a world icon, Che, the legend, has been whipped up into a religious-like fervor, a hero worship, and a useful tool of political propaganda of all stripes. Still, he was named by Time Magazine as one of the most influential people of the 20th century and acknowledged as the foremost tactician of the Cuban revolutionary strategy.
Backed by the meticulous work of serious researchers, world-class journalists, scholars and historians that have sorted through the myth, hearsay, and through the fabulous and unlikely claims of those in the Che industry, you can now visit these places, these globally important historic sites, and learn the real story of what happened, why it happened, how it came to the end that it did, and to be the legend that it is…
THE DEATH AND LAST DAYS OF CHE GUEVARA: A HISTORICAL EXCURSION
