About the Book

Punta del Este

Punta del Este

Proyecto Alternativo de Desarrollo para América Latina
Ernesto Che Guevara (Author)
April 2007
Trade Paperback · 160 Pages
$14.95 U.S. · $18.00 CAN
ISBN 9781920888862
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Description

To check growing rebellion in Latin America after the Cuban Revolution, at Punta del Este in 1961 John F. Kennedy initiated the Alliance for Progress—a program for free trade and development. Che Guevara, representing the Cuban government, condemned the plan as a new strategy of domination. The book echoes today’s debate provoked by President Chávez’s proposal for an alternative Latin American trade bloc.

About the Author

Che Guevara was the legendary Latin American guerrilla fighter who joined the Cuban revolutionary movement that toppled the Batista dictatorship. He played a leading role in the early years of the Cuban Revolution and made an extraordinary and original contribution to Marxist theory. He died at the hands of CIA assassins in Bolivia in 1967.