Kiállítás az Ernesto Che Guevara Komplexum felavatásának 25. évfordulójának alkalmából (2013. december)

Ritka panorámafotók segítségével mutatja be a kiállítás, hogyan épült az Ernesto Che Guevara Complex [itt olvashatsz az építményről és képeket is nézegethetsz róla] - építészek, szobrászok és több száz önkéntes munkájának köszönhetően. Ezek az emberek most, annyi év után újra találkozhattak, felidézhették a régi emlékeiket és visszaemlékezhettek arra a hatalmas csendre, amely Che gigantikus szobrának felállítását kísérte és arra a pillanatra, amikor már biztonságban állt a talapzatán és mindenki hangosan éljenzett és tapsolt.
Néhányan még különleges tárgyakat is adományoztak, mint például a fenti képen látható, fából faragott Che-szobrot.

A kiállítás január végéig tekinthető meg.

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An exhibition commemorating the 25th anniversary of the inauguration of the Ernesto Che Guevara Complex (December 2013)

By the help of rare, panoramic photos, the exhibition shows how the Ernesto Che Guevara Complex [here you can read about it and check out some photos] was being created, by its architects, artists and those hundreds of voluntary workers who made it. These people could even meet again, after so many years, and now they exchanged their memories and remembered the huge silence when Che's gigantic statue was being erected - and the moment when it took its place safely and suddenly everyone was cheering loudly and clapping their hands.
Some people even donated special objects like a wooden effigy of Che (that you can see above).

The exhibition is open till the end of January.

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Che Guevara naplóját az interneten tette közzé a kutató

A kézírásos napló egy másolata, amit Che Guevara, az argentín születésű kubai forradalmi hős írt egészen a haláláig Bolíviai hegyeiben, már elérhető az interneten, jelentette be egy kutató hétfőn.
“A cél az, hogy mindenki hozzájuthasson egy történelmi dokumentumhoz. És az internet lehetővé teszi mindenki számára, hogy megtudja, mi történt 45 évvel ezelőtt,” mondta a bolíviai kutató, Carlos Soria Galvarro.

A naplót, ami Soria Galvarro weboldalán - www.chebolivia.org - megtalálható, Che kék tintával írta 1967 január és október között, egy olyan periódusban, amikor a tragikus végű hadjáratát vezette, hogy forradalmat robbantson ki a bolíviai parasztok között.
1967. október 8-én ölték meg a bolíviai csapatok. [Valójában október 9-én. - a szerkesztő]
Guevara naplója visszakerült Kubába, ahol 1968-ban kiadták. De a megjelent szöveg néhol kicsit eltért a kézirattól, hogy finomítsák Che nyersebb megfogalmazását.
“Most mindenki virtuálisan megnézheti [Che] kézírását.” magyarázta Soria Galvarro.

Soria Galvarro öt könyvet írt Che Guevara-ról és a Bolíviában töltött idejéről.

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Ha szeretnél egy példányt Che Guevara bolíviai naplójának kéziratából az 1967-ben történt napokról, itt letöltheted: [download]
 

Che Guevara’s diary published online by researcher

A copy of the handwritten diary that Che Guevara, the Argentine-born Cuban revolution hero, kept before his death in the mountains of Bolivia is now available online, a researcher said Monday.
“The goal is for a historical document to be within everyone’s reach. And the Internet makes it possible for everyone to know what happened 45 years ago,” said Bolivian researcher Carlos Soria Galvarro.

The diary, posted on Soria Galvarro’s website www.chebolivia.org, was penned in blue ink from January to October 1967, a period when Guevara was on an ill-fated campaign to ignite a peasant revolution in Bolivia.
He was killed October 8, 1967 by Bolivian troops. [Actually he was executed on 9th of October. - the webmiss]
Guevara’s diary was turned over to Cuba, which published it in 1968. But the published texts contained changes from the original manuscript, sometimes to clean up Che’s rawer language.
“Now everyone can see a virtual image of what he wrote in his handwriting,” Soria Galvarro explained.

Soria Galvarro has written five books about Guevara and his time in Bolivia.

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If you want to download and have a copy of Che Guevara's manuscript of his Bolivian diary containing the days of 1967, do it here: [download]
 

John Wright: The Ideas for Which Che Guevara Gave His Life Continue to Inspire Millions

On 9 October 1967 Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was executed by a Bolivian army officer at the end of his ill-fated attempt to foment revolution throughout Latin America. He was executed at the behest of the CIA, who hoped his death would deal a major blow to the influence of the Cuban Revolution in a part of the world traditionally viewed as America's backyard; its role to provide the cheap labour, raw materials, and markets required to maintain the huge profits of US corporations.

But the CIA were wrong, just as successive US administrations have been wrong, in thinking that the ideas for which Che Guevara fought and died could ever be ended with a bullet. On the contrary, over four decades on from Che's death the Cuban Revolution continues as a beacon of inspiration and hope to the poor of the undeveloped world.

That a tiny island nation with a population of just over 11 million people, located 90 miles off the coast of Florida, should have the temerity to assert its right to political and economic independence from the United States and survive for so long is nothing short of immense. Indeed, not only have the ideas for which Che Guevera gave his life survived, they have never been more popular or potent, illustrated by Hugo Chavez's most recent election as president of Venezuela for an historic fourth term.

Undeniably, Che's legend has not only continued unabated since his death it has grown. In every town and every city, from Los Angeles to London, Beirut to Bethlehem, from Nairobi to New Delhi, the iconic image of him carrying that expression of burning defiance, captured by Alberto Korda in 1960, is as ubiquitous as it is powerful, found on everything from T-shirts to coffee mugs, rugs, posters, and a myriad other items. For many it represents something transcendent in the human experience, an idea that stands in opposition to the values of individualism and materialism which are drummed into us every minute of every day in and by the West.

A read through Che's writings brings home the fierce determination of a man who burned with anger at the injustice, oppression and exploitation suffered by the world's poor. In his address to the United Nations general assembly in1964, he said:

'All free men of the world must be prepared to avenge the crime of the Congo. Perhaps many of those soldiers, who were turned into subhumans by imperialist machinery, believe in good faith that they are defending the rights of a superior race. In this assembly, however, those peoples whose skins are darkened by a different sun, coloured by different pigments, constitute the majority. And they fully and clearly understand that the difference between men does not lie in the colour of their skin, but in the forms of ownership of the means of production, in the relations of production.'

Not satisfied with merely delivering such a powerful testament in solidarity with the poor and oppressed of another land, he embarked for the Congo in an attempt to give meaning to them, in the process abandoning the relative comfort and status earned him by the success of the Cuban Revolution to risk his life in a mission to spread the revolution throughout the developing world.

In a later speech to the Afro-Asian Conference in February 1965, he offered this admonition:

'There are no borders in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, because a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory, just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.'

For Che Guevera the struggle against imperialism and exploitation could only be won gun in hand, utilising in his view the same kind of violence used without compunction by the oppressor. Not for him non-violence and peaceful protest. His experience, his observation of the poverty and truncated lives suffered by immiserated millions throughout Latin America and Africa instilled in him a rage and a desire to visit retribution on the system he considered responsible.

In this he was very much a product of his time, when people of the developing world were locked out of the democratic process in parts of the world where right wing dictatorships made recourse to violence inevitable. Today Latin America is a region transformed compared to then, a part of the world where democracy has taken root and produced a leftward shift that has rejected the tenets of the Washington neoliberal consensus in favour of social and economic justice as the objective of government.

Despite the myriad articles, analysis, and commentary that has been written about Che Guevera and his life, much of it hostile and withering, one incident sums up more than any article ever could the enduring force of the Cuban Revolution whose ideas he died trying to spread.

In 2006 Mario Teran, an old man living in Bolivia, was treated by Cuban doctors volunteering their services free of charge to Bolivia's poor, just as they have and do to the poor in every corner of the developing world in medical missions that have transformed the lives of millions. They performed an operation to remove cataracts from Mario's eyes, which succeeded in restoring his sight.

Mario Teran is not just any old man. Mario Teran is the Bolivian army officer who executed Ernesto 'Che' Guevara in 1967.

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Múlt hónapban jelent meg egy cikk az El Espectador weboldalán, amelyen egy vadonatúj, Che Guevara-ról szóló könyvet mutattak be.
A szerző, az újságíró Jaime Horta kimerítő nyomozást folytatott és "Las últimas 24 horas del Che Guevara" (Che Guevara utolsó 24 órája) címmel megírta a legendás forradalmár életének utolsó napjának történetét - állítása szerint új fényben megvilágítva Che elfogását és kivégzését, valamint a férfi jó és rossz tulajdonságait. 

Horta szorgalmasan gyűjtötte az amerikai Life magazin számait és amikor 1967-ben elolvasta Che a halálhíréről és halálának körülményeiről szóló cikket, akkor kezdett el érdeklődni a gerillavezér iránt. Véleménye szerint egy 40 millió dolláros váltságdíjjal megmenthették volna Che életét, aki mindvégig hűséges maradt Fidel Castro-hoz, aki azonban cserbenhagyta a barátját és nem mentette ki Bolíviából.
Che utolsó 24 óráját fájdalom, megalázottság és kegyetlenség jellemezte. Horta szerint Che félt, bánta, hogy élve fogták el, azonban az utolsó pillanatig meg volt győződve arról, hogy a halála nem lesz hiábavaló.

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Last month an article was published on the website of El Espectador, where a new book about Che Guevara was introduced.
The author, the journalist Jaime Horta did a detailed investigation and wrote the story of the last day of the legendary revolutionary's life titled "Las últimas 24 horas del Che Guevara" (The last 24 hours of Che Guevara) - according to him, a new light will be shed on Che's capture and execution, and his good and bad side.

Horta had been collecting the copies of the American magazine, Life and when he read the article about Che's death and its circumstances in 1967, he became really interested in the guerrilla leader. In his opinion, a ransom of 40 million dollars could have saved Che's life, who remained faithful to Fidel Castro till the last moment of his life - while Castro left his friend alone and didn't save him out of Bolivia.
Che's last 24 hours were characterised by pain, humiliation and cruelty. According to Horta, Che was afraid, he regretted having been captured alive, but till the last moment he was so sure that his death would never be futile.

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Az argentín Primera Fuente egy könyvre (A nő, aki bosszút állt Che Guevara-ért) és a címszereplő Monika Ertl-re hívta fel az olvasói figyelmét.
Monika Ertl 1937-ben született Münchenben, majd operatőr édesapjával 1950-ben Bolíviába költözött. A fiatal nő az apja mellett dolgozott, majd egy boldogtalan és rövid házasságot kötött egy bolíviai-német bányamérnökkel, miközben testvérével, Beatriz-zal rajongtak Che Guevara-ért. Később felvette a kapcsolatot Che bolíviai csapatának öt túlélőjével, majd maga is az ELN nevű földalatti mozgalom tagja lett. Állítólag ő gyilkolta meg Hamburgban a bolíviai nagykövetet, Roberto Quintanilla Pereira-t, aki annak idején elrendelte, hogy vágják le a halott Che Guevara kezeit és küldjék La Paz-ba további azonosításra.
Monika 1973-ban hunyt el, amikor a bolíviai titkosrendőrség elfogta és megölte. Holtteste sosem került elő.

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The Argentinian website Primera Fuente called the attention of its visitors on a book (The woman who took revenge for Che Guevara) and on the woman in the title, Monika Ertl.
Monika Ertl was born in 1937 in Munich, Germany, then in 1950 the family moved to Bolivia. She was working beside her cameraman father, then she had a short, unhappy mariage with a Bolivian-German mine engineer, while she and her sister, Beatriz adored Che Guevara. Later she had connection to the five survivors of Che's Bolivian campaign, then she became a member of the underground movement, the ELN.  She was said to kill the Bolivian colonel, Roberto Quintanilla Pereira in Hamburg - he was the man who ordered that the dead Che Guevara's hands must be cut off and sent to La Paz for further investigation.
Monika died in 1973 when the Bolivian secret police caught and killed her. Her body has never been found.

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