Che Guevara

With Che Guevara there seems to be no middle ground. For some he was a kind of new Jesus Christ, a heroic guerrilla who gave his life for his ideals. Others, on the contrary, see in him a despicable murderer. The biography of Francisco Martínez Hoyos makes a fair assessment of the unlikely trajectory of the Argentine, who went from being a mediocre doctor to becoming a star of the Cuban revolution. Thus arises before us a man of flesh and blood faced with very difficult situations. He was, without a doubt, a strict communist, enemy of the privileges associated with any political office. He did not demand anything that he had not previously demanded of himself. But this desire for coherence, taken to the limit, turned against him by turning him into a dogmatic figure, who only valued the friendship of those who agreed with his political ideas. This intransigence was the root of his final failure: he did not realize that the experience of Sierra Maestra, together with Fidel Castro, was unfeasible in settings as different as the Congo and Bolivia.