The awakening of Latin America / Ernesto Che Guevara ; edited by María del Carmen Ariet García.

Includes index.

Ernesto Che Guevara: biographical note
Chronology of Ernesto Che Guevara
Editor's preface
Introduction
Part one: Discovering Latin America 1950-56. Introduction
Travels in Argentina (1950)
First trip through Latin America (1951-52)
A second look at Latin America (1953-56)
Doctors and their environment
Reading notes
Journalism (1953-54)
Poems (unpublished)
Selected letters (1953-56)
Books read in adolescence
Part two: Latin America from within (1956-65). Introduction
1956-58: the revolutionary war in Cuba
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
Part three: The Americas united: revolutionary internationalism (1965-67). Introduction
Congo diary
Message to the tricontinental: "Create two, three...many Vietnams"
Bolivian diary
Documents from Bolivia
Reading lists (1965-67)
Reading plan for Bolivia

"In a letter to his mother in 1954, a young Ernesto Guevara wrote, "The Americas will be the theater of my adventures in a way that is much more significant than I would have believed." In The Awakening of Latin America we have the story of those adventures, charting Che's evolution from an impressionable young medical student to the "heroic guerrilla," assassinated in cold blood in Bolivia. Spanning seventeen years, this anthology draws on from his family's personal archives and offers the best of Che's writing: examples of his journalism, essays, speeches, letters, and even poems. As Che documents his early travels through Latin America, his involvement in the Guatemalan and Cuban revolutions, and his rise to international prominence under Fidel Castro, we see how his fervent commitment to social justice shaped and was shaped by the continent he called home"-- Provided by publisher.