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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Guevara, Ernesto ___ 1928-1967 ___ Argentinian ___ politician BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Guevara was born into a middle-class family in Rosario, Argentina, and studied medicine at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1953, he moved to Guatemala, joined the pro-communist regime until it was overthrown, and then fled to Mexico, where he joined Fidel Castro and other Cuban rebels. In 1956, he acted as Castro's chief lieutenant soon after the invasion of Cuba in 1956, and then, with the fall of the dictator, Fulgencio Batista, Guevara was made president of the national bank. In the first half of the 1960s, he served as Cuba's minister for industry in Castro's government. He was a strong opponent of American influence in the developing world and a key figure in Cuba's move towards communism. In 1965, he left Cuba for Bolivia where he became involved again in revolutionary activities, but he was captured by the Bolivian army and executed. As well as several political books, Guevara also left behind some colourful diaries, one about his youthful journey with a friend through South America on a motorcycle, and the other about his activities in Bolivia. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1951-1952 1966-1967 ___ political social travel health Bolivia Chile Peru WEB TEXT LINKS a bit about the Bolivian diary ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS in Cuba perhaps? SOME PUBLISHED TITLES Bolivian Diary of Ernesto Che Guevara The Motorcycle Diaries May 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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