The Awakening of Latin America

Compiled with access to Che’s personal archives held at the Che Guevara Studies Center (Havana) directed by his widow (Aleida March)The most comprehensive vision of the continent by Latin America’s past and future by its most famous revolutionary figureShows the development of Che’s cultural depth and incredible intellect as well as his extraordinary political acuity.More than one third of this book has never been published beforeThis is the book to read after «The Motorcycle Diaries» as it opens with excerpts from his unpublished «Bicycle Diaries» – from his trip around Argentina in 1950 – the year before the trip with Alberto Granado.Almost half was written in the period before he arrived in Cuba and features his notes on his other travels in Latin AmericaPublished in Spanish as “América Latina: Despertar de un Continente”(978-1-876175-71-9)This will be an instant classic, comparable in depth, scope and impact to Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America