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~ Ernesto Che Guevara
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Ernesto Che Guevara, az argentin származású forradalmár, miniszter, gerillavezér és író, Buenos Aires-ben szerzett orvosi diplomát, majd a kubai forradalom során jelentős szerepet játszott a szigetország felszabadításában és újjáépítésében. A kubai gazdaság talpraállításáért dolgozott, küzdött az oktatás és az egészségügy fejlesztéséért, az írástudatlanság és a faji előítéletek felszámolásáért. Saját példájával népszerűsítette az önkéntes munkát. Kongóban és Bolíviában is harcolt - harminckilenc éves volt, amikor az amerikai-bolíviai csapatok csapdába ejtették és kivégezték.
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Where'd You Get That? Cuban Comic Books
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This colorful comic is helping me learn revolutionary Spanish at home.
What: Cuba Revolution comic book
Where: Librerio Venicia, Calle Obislp, Old Town Havana
The Lowdown: I found this 32-page combination comic book and trading-card album languishing in the racks of a dusty used book store on Calle Obispo in Old Town Havana. It was published in the early 1960’s to “retain an exciting memory of the glorious Cuban epic,” in a style “pleasant and appropriate for youth,” according to its Spanish-language introduction.
Nowadays, the neighborhood is hardly revolutionary. Tourists flock to the area to shop, and perhaps grab a drink at Hemingway’s favorite daiquiri bar, El Floridita. In the alleyways, vendors hawk sunglasses and Chinese-made faux-Cuban souvenirs. You’re far more likely to see rainbow-colored jugglers and clowns than soldiers in olive drab.
But inside the used book store of Libreria Venecia, the revolution lives on, stacked high on the shelves, and hanging on the walls. For 15 CUCs (“kooks” as the dollar-equivalent Cuban Convertible pesos are called) I purchased this blow-by-blow graphic-novel style account of the Cuban revolution from its 1952 beginnings to Fidel’s “triumphant return” to Havana in 1959. While its memories are biased and the violent content neither pleasant nor appropriate for kids, the book is a fascinating snapshot of the times.
The album has 268 baseball-card sized inserts glued in place, each with a caption and colorful depiction of a moment in the revolution. The pages depict everything from Batista atrocities to mountaintop battles and even an early, clean-shaven Fidel.
The centerfold features trading cards of 16 “bearded heroes” of the revolution, including youthful looking portraits of Fidel and Raul Castro, as well as Commander of Column #8, Dr. Ernesto “Che” Guevara. You can almost imagine little kids at the time swapping sets: “Hey, you wanna trade two Che’s for a Fidel and Cienfuegos?”
In an incongruously capitalist touch, the production of the album was underwritten by a fruit company whose advertisement graces the back cover. A smiling little girl thanks her stylish mom for a tasty dessert of Felices brand guava jelly. The cards were given away as prizes along with product purchases, so some diligent (and probably chubby) kid ate a lot of guava jelly to fill out all 268 spaces in my book. Thanks to the kid and an old Havana shop, I now have a preserved piece of Cuban history.
Source (with more photos)
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Ernesto Che Guevara, the Argentine-born revolutionary, minister, guerrilla leader and writer, received his medical degree in Buenos Aires, then played an essential part in the Cuban Revolution in liberating and rebuilding the country. He did his best to set up the Cuban economy, fought for the improvement of the education and the health system, the elimination of illiteracy and racial prejudice. He promoted voluntary work by his own example. He fought in the Congo and in Bolivia - he was thirty-nine years old, when he was trapped and executed by the joint American-Bolivian forces.
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