JJ Benitez seems to have a very clear literary mission. Bring us deep personal profiles of great characters in history. Whether it is for fiction (unforgettable Trojan Horses), or it is a biography, his scrupulous documentation, his narrative thread so adjusted to the facts and at the same time so profuse in those wonderful details that do not transcend, make him the ideal biographer , almost an exegete that turns the person into the saint, or the devil if appropriate, but always in the myth.
Che Guevara has a lot of myth. Always justified, of course, although perhaps crushed by the marketing of t-shirts, posters and slogans. That is why this book is appreciated, centered on the reality that surrounded Che Guevara, especially when he was about to leave this world that he stepped on with the firmness of one who only gave himself to his freedom.
It should be noted that a liberating guerrilla will never be a fraternal commune. There are weapons and there are decisions directly attributable to Che. And there were deaths and revenge. That is why this mythical combatant is so quickly considered that saint to be venerated or that demon to be denigrated.
Benitez leaves from October 8, 1967 to try to shed light on his documentation work. On that day, Ché was captured and confined pending a summary trial. The truth had to be found in those days. The polarization that the arrest of the great leader entailed had to be synthesized, distilled to raise another type of more objective judgment, that of the passing of the years and the light of the facts.
And that's where we move forward with this book. We approached those who finished him, during the hours before his last expiration. Years of journalistic work to delve into still valid testimonies and with sufficient perspective to analyze what happened in those days. Fundamental notions of each other towards the final reconstruction of the saint or the devil ...
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