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Article: Six revolutionary sights
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 29, 1995
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You say you want a revolutionary holiday? Latin America is the
place. Forty-two years ago this week, Fidel Castro launched an
unsuccessful attempt to topple the Batista regime, finally coming
to power six years later with the help of Argentinian revolutionary
Che Guevara (right). As Jonathan Glancey reports, you can trace
the last footsteps of the rebel with one cause too many across the
altiplano of Bolivia.
Bolivia itself is the best place to start a revolutionary tour
of Latin America. A golpe de estado (coup d'etat) comes around
rather more frequently than Christmas, with an average of one every
11 months since independence. This sort of record is what gives
Latin America a bad name, ...