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Article: Castaneda uncovers reality of Communist Cuba's poster boy.
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- The Boston Herald
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- December 14, 1997
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"Companero: The Life and Times of Che Guevara" by Jorge G. Castaneda (Alfred A. Knopf)
More than 30 years after his short life and brutal death, the legacy of Ernesto "Che" Guevara remains a symbol of revolutionary glory and Cold War-era Communist ideology.
The three-decade anniversary of Guevara's execution at the hands of Bolivian soldiers has produced several new books about his life, including the scholarly, meticulous "Companero," by Jorge Castaneda, one of Mexico's most distinguished political scientists.
Castaneda chronicles the earliest days of the Argentine-born rebel, detailing his childhood struggles with debilitating asthma and his ...