The visit of Commander Ernesto Che Guevara to China: 1965

Afro-Hispanic Review, 2008

Che's Travels: The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America, 2010

Ernesto “Che” Guevara twice traveled across Latin America in the early 1950s. Based on his accounts of those trips (published in English as The Motorcycle Diaries and Back on the Road), as well as other historical sources, Che’s Travels follows Guevara, country by country, from his native Argentina through Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela, and then from Argentina through Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala, and Mexico. Each essay is focused on a single country and written by an expert in its history. Taken together, the essays shed new light on Che’s formative years by analyzing the distinctive societies, histories, politics, and cultures he encountered on these two trips, the ways they affected him, and the ways he represented them in his travelogues. In addition to offering new insights into Guevara, the essays provide a fresh perspective on Latin America’s experience of the Cold War and the interplay of nationalism and anti-imperialism in the crucial but relatively understudied 1950s. Assessing Che’s legacies in the countries he visited during the two journeys, the contributors examine how he is remembered or memorialized; how he is invoked for political, cultural, and religious purposes; and how perceptions of him affect ideas about the revolutions and counterrevolutions fought in Latin America from the 1960s through the 1980s. Contributors Malcolm Deas Paulo Drinot Eduardo Elena Judith Ewell Cindy Forster Patience A. Schell Eric Zolov Ann Zulawski

2015

Sino-Cuban relations have deepened rapidly since the beginning of the twenty-first century, propelled by both political ideology and economic interests. A shared commitment to socialism with " local characteristics " has enabled the pursuit of an unusually broad range of cooperative initiatives. These include Chinese investment in the Cuban nickel and oil sectors, educational and medical exchange programs, the development of tourism, and engagement with the Chinese diaspora on the island. Data from Chinese sources on these spheres of engagement reflect an attempt to address contemporary needs with a blend of state and market forces. The intensification of Sino-Cuban relations over the past decade poses no challenge to the United States; on the contrary, it opens new opportunities for trilateral cooperation.

Between 1959 and 2017 Cuba carried out an anti-hegemonic foreign policy that used most of the tools of international relations theory. The paper suggests a periodisation and underlines the main tenets of Cuban foreign policy. It also underlines the role played by Fidel Castro in designing and implement this foreign policy

Serbian Journal of Engineering Management

Ideas and concepts that enable us to analyze the genesis and path of Ernest "Che Guevara" as icons were primarily set by Panofsky, Martin Kemp and Bart. The first understands iconology as the meaning of a certain image in relation to the different social, historical and geographical contexts of the observer. According to Martin Kemp, the icon can be defined as a phenomenon that has reached an extraordinary degree of recognizability and prevalence, which has acquired diverse and numerous connotations through different epochs and cultures, transcending its original meanings and functions. The concepts of denotation and connotation, especially as Bart developed them, represent an important tool in discovering the meaning that the character of Che Guevara gained over time.

In this paper we show the connection between the repression of the Cuban Trotskyists from mid-1960 until their eventual banning in 1965, and the growing marginalization of the supporters of "Che" Guevara in the new revolutionary state apparatus as a result of the mounting pressure of the Stalinist bureaucracy, which was in turn a product of the growing alignment of Cuba with the Soviet Union in the Cold War. We review Guevara’s changing attitudes towards the Cuban Trotskyists, contextualizing them in the framework of the economic debates that took place in the Cuban leadership and of his own warnings over the danger of a restoration of capitalism, debates which resulted in his defeat, his resignation from his government posts, his departure from the island and his tragic death in Bolivia at the age of 39. But while the fate of a small internationalist working-class political tendency in Cuba coincided with that of the radical wing of the Cuban revolutionary leadership under the pressure of Stalinism, the Cuban regime never lost its character as an. “adoptive member” of the Stalinist family, and followed a peculiar path which characterizes it until today, a quarter of a century after the restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union.