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"A timely source of vivid insights into [the key influences] that turned this young man into the world's most recogniseable revolutionary.”
—The Latin American Review of Books

内容简介

“I had prepared a life plan that included ten years ofwandering, later years studying medicine. . . . All that's in thepast, the only thing that's clear is that the ten years ofwandering might grow longer . . . but it will now be of an entirelydifferent type from the one I dreamed of, and when I arrive in anew country it will not be to go to museums and look at ruins,because that still interests me, but also to join the struggle ofthe people.”

– Che Guevara, in a letter to his mother, 1956

“I had prepared a life plan that included ten years of
wandering, later years studying medicine. . . . All that's in the
past, the only thing that's clear is that the ten years of
wandering might grow longer . . . but it will now be of an entirely
different type from the one I dreamed of, and when I arrive in a
new country it will not be to go to museums and look at ruins,
because that still interests me, but also to join the struggle of
the people.” 
 
– Che Guevara, in a letter to his mother, 1956 
 
Assembled from two separate books written by Che's father, this is
a vivid and intimate account of the formative years of an icon.
Ernesto Guevara Lynch describes the people and personal events that
shaped the development of his son's revolutionary worldview, from
his childhood in a bourgeois Argentinian home to the moment he
joined Castro to train for the invasion of Cuba in 1956. It also
includes, available for the first time in the United States, Che's
diary of his trip around Northern Argentina in 1950. Young
Che is an indispensible guide to understanding one of the
twentieth century's most famous and enduring revolutionary
figures.

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作者简介

Ernesto Guevara Lynch, the father of Che Guevara, was born in Argentina in 1900 of Irish and Basque origin.

目　　录

Acknowledgements
Introduction by Lucia/idvarez de Toledo
Preface by Ernesto Guevara Lynch
Map
List of Illustrations
1. Che in Cuba, I956-9
2. Ernesto's ancestry and early years, I85OS-I933
3. Growing up, 1933-52
4. Argentine travel diaries, 1950
5. Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador, 1953
6. Guatemala, 1953-4
7. Mexico, 1954-6
8. Mexico en route to Cuba, 1956
Epilogue: Tita Infante remembers Che a year after his death

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Part One: Che in Cuba, 1956–9

It was early December of 1956 and the world’s majornewspapers were publishing accounts of Fidel Castro’s* failedattempt to invade the island of Cuba. The ex-Sergeant Batista*,then self-elevated to the rank of Major General, spread the news,by means of the international agencies, that Castro and his men hadbeen killed during an attempt to invade the island. This took placeon 2 December of that year.

Fidel Castro had launched the threat to invade Cuba over a yearearlier by saying: ‘We shall be free or we shall be martyrs.’

Our family in Buenos Aires was not aware of this threat, but beganto understand what was going on when we read in large headlines thefirst news of it that the leading newspapers of the world werepublishing. They were devoting space to the disaster that had takenplace when Fidel and his men disembarked near the city ofManzanillo, in the province of Oriente. It was a bombshell.

We knew that Ernesto was involved in a conspiracy and that he hadbeen taken into custody in Mexico with Fidel Castro and hismen.

The Guevara family discovers the real destiny of ErnestoGuevara de la Serna
On 6 July 1956 I received a letter from Ernesto, in reply to one ofmine that I had sent to the jail of the Gobernación of Mexico City,on Miguel Schultz Street, in which I told him that we had justlearned from the newspapers that he was in jail and asked him totell me what the situation was, plainly and without beating aboutthe bush.

Part One: Che in Cuba, 1956–9 
 It was early December of 1956 and the world’s major
newspapers were publishing accounts of Fidel Castro’s* failed
attempt to invade the island of Cuba. The ex-Sergeant Batista*,
then self-elevated to the rank of Major General, spread the news,
by means of the international agencies, that Castro and his men had
been killed during an attempt to invade the island. This took place
on 2 December of that year. 
 
Fidel Castro had launched the threat to invade Cuba over a year
earlier by saying: ‘We shall be free or we shall be martyrs.’ 
 
Our family in Buenos Aires was not aware of this threat, but began
to understand what was going on when we read in large headlines the
first news of it that the leading newspapers of the world were
publishing. They were devoting space to the disaster that had taken
place when Fidel and his men disembarked near the city of
Manzanillo, in the province of Oriente. It was a bombshell. 
 
We knew that Ernesto was involved in a conspiracy and that he had
been taken into custody in Mexico with Fidel Castro and his
men. 
 
The Guevara family discovers the real destiny of Ernesto
Guevara de la Serna 
On 6 July 1956 I received a letter from Ernesto, in reply to one of
mine that I had sent to the jail of the Gobernación of Mexico City,
on Miguel Schultz Street, in which I told him that we had just
learned from the newspapers that he was in jail and asked him to
tell me what the situation was, plainly and without beating about
the bush. 
 
His reply to my letter cleared any doubts that anyone might have
had about Ernesto and his position within Fidel Castro’s
army. 
 
The news, particularly when it came from the United States, gave
details of the extermination of the whole contingent. 
 
When the news reached Buenos Aires, our friends started telephoning
incessantly. They wanted to know what was happening. I was told
over the telephone the dreadful news that my son Ernesto had been
mortally wounded during one of the skirmishes. The reports said
that both Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl* had been killed, as
well as several of their comrades. I remember the names of Juan
Almeida* and Ramiro Valdés*. The news said that the motorboat
Granma, in which the eighty-two had sailed from a small port in
Mexico called Tuxpan, had been captured with all members of the
invasion force on board and that the majority of the crew had died.
The remaining few had been dispersed, according to the newspapers,
and would soon have to give themselves up. 
 
The whole world believed the news because of the disparity between
the regular army of General Batista – formed by selected troops of
the rural guard, the marines and the armed police force – and the
tiny guerrilla group of just eighty-two men under Fidel Castro. It
was impossible to believe that the latter might topple the military
government of Batista, far less defeat its army and air force,
trained by the United States of America and equipped with the most
modern weapons. 
 
When we received the news we were depressed. I went to the offices
of the newspaper La Prensa of Buenos Aires asking for confirmation.
They said, as consolation, that they were unable to tell me if it
was true until official confirmation came and, as such confirmation
had not arrived, there was still hope. 
 
I went home in despair. My wife, Celia, was sitting at a table with
a pack of cards playing a game of patience. My children had learned
from other sources what the wires were announcing, which was by now
in any case in the public domain. When they saw me arrive, they did
not utter a single word. They did not say anything to their mother.
It was up to me to deliver the awful blow. I sat opposite her and
waited for what seemed to me a century until she had finished her
card game. She then lifted her head and, perhaps because she had a
premonition, asked, ‘What is it?’ 
 
‘Look,’ I replied, ‘there are some reports that I don’t think are
true.’ 
 
She was livid. ‘Ernesto?’ she asked. 
 
‘Yes. But I can assure you that I do not believe it.’ 
 
She jumped to her feet, went to the telephone and called the news
agency Associated Press and, with a dry but firm voice, said, ‘I am
the mother of Dr Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, whose death you have
just announced and will be published in the newspapers. I want you
to tell me the truth. Is it true?’ 
 
She later told me that they had tried to console her, telling her
what I had already been told: that most of these reports ended up
not being confirmed. 
 
We were used to putting up with all sorts of worries when it came
to Ernesto. I imagine the majority of our family and friends
believed the terrible news, and I imagine that the government of
Batista himself also believed it. But I was not totally
discouraged. There was something that told me it could not be true,
even if the evidence was to the contrary. I had an intuition –
something like a remote hope in this avalanche of unconfirmed news
– and that is why my words could be of some comfort to my
family. 
 
At that time I was in contact with civil servants who worked for
the government of General Aramburu*. I went to the President’s
private secretary and asked to see the President to request him to
intervene with the Cuban government, so that in the hypothetical
event that Ernesto had been taken prisoner, he would not suffer the
fate that Batista was in the habit of meting out to his prisoners:
torture and assassination. 
 
General Aramburu intervened and the Argentine Foreign Ministry
moved with speed. We were continually in touch with the ministry,
but neither denial nor confirmation was forthcoming. We were unable
to find out anything. 
 
My home, normally so noisy and lively, had become a sombre place.
Nobody spoke, everyone foresaw the catastrophe, and around us there
was an air of desolation. As for me, I must confess that I found it
impossible to concentrate on anything that was not related to
Ernesto. I abandoned my job, I didn’t even turn up at the office. I
went from one place to another seeking information. The newspapers
dropped the story. But some newspapers and magazines arrived by air
from Cuba. I remember an issue of the magazine Bohemia that I
forced myself to read. It contained the same news that the first
agency wires had issued, but in great detail: Ernesto, who was
reclining against a tree talking to his mate Dr Pérez, had been
mortally wounded. It had happened at Alegría del Pío. Fidel
Castro’s men had been surprised by the army, and the rural guards
had fallen upon them before they had been able to see them, and the
guards had machine-gunned them from a few metres away. The air
force had rained napalm bombs on the woodlands and sugar-cane
fields. The army had surrounded the area, and it was assumed that
nobody could have escaped the ambush alive. For the government of
Batista, this was the beginning and the end of the much-heralded
invasion by Fidel Castro Ruz. 
 
And then a letter from Ernesto, written in Mexico, arrived. For the
family this was simply dreadful. It was his farewell letter to his
parents. In it he made some philosophical observations. His message
was that for him death was not important; what was important was
the struggle for one’s ideals. He also said that he was leaving
Mexico to enter Cuba as a revolutionary. My wife read the letter in
front of everyone without a tear. I clenched my teeth and did not
understand why Ernesto had to get involved with a revolution that
had nothing to do with his homeland. 
 
How wrong I was. My son Ernesto had to teach me – I who had guided
him through his first steps in life – the duty of men who fight for
humanity. It was not clear to me at the time; I could not separate
the heroic event in which one gives one’s life for an ideal from a
warlike adventure with no precise direction. I would compare
Batista with any of the military men who had at one time or another
been dictators in my country. I had fought against them, but what
eluded me at the time was something that Ernesto had already fully
understood: for the oppressed people of the world, the enemy was
one and the same, and that enemy was not in Argentina, or Cuba, or
Peru, or any other part of Latin America; the enemy was further
away – it was from where the capitalist elite originates, and from
where it sends its forces against those oppressed people via the
heads of governments who serve their interests. 
 
Early one morning the phone rang. I was being summoned by the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs to meet the secretary of the Foreign
Minister. He saw me in his office; his demeanour was quiet. What
must I have looked like! I do not know, but I can imagine. He
looked at me with pity and said the following: ‘I have just
received a telegram from the Argentine Embassy in Havana, which
reads: “Dr Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, according to enquiries made
by this embassy, is not among the dead, nor among the wounded, nor
among the prisoners of Batista’s  army.”’ 
 
Had I been thrown into the air by an earthquake I would not have
left the premises with greater speed. I ran all the way home with
the news, and that same afternoon everything changed for us. An air
of optimism enveloped us all and my home was once again noisy and
filled with youthful exuberance. 
 
Some days went by. We lived in a state of anxiety awaiting
confirmation or denial, but neither arrived through the official
channels. So we believed the news that had arrived at the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs from our embassy in Cuba. 
 
1956 was coming to an end. On 31 December we were getting ready, as
usual, to celebrate the arrival of the new year, although this time
uncertainty hung over us. It was then that the unforeseen happened.
It must have been around ten o’clock that night when an envelope
was slid u...

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Young Che《切·格瓦拉传记》切·格瓦拉，是阿根廷的马克思主义革命家、医师、作家、游击队队长、军事理论家、国际政治家及古巴革命的核心人物。《时代》杂志将格瓦拉选入二十世纪百大影响力人物！下载

Young Che《切·格瓦拉传记》切·格瓦拉，是阿根廷的马克思主义革命家、医师、作家、游击队队长、军事理论家、国际政治家及古巴革命的核心人物。《时代》杂志将格瓦拉选入二十世纪百大影响力人物！

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