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1 " Ibsen: “Education is the capacity to confront the situations posed by life. "
― Jon Lee Anderson , Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
2 " I realize that something that was growing inside of me for some time ... has matured: and it is the hate of civilization, the absurd image of people moving like locos to the rhythm of that tremendous noise that seems to me like the hateful antithesis of peace. "
3 " Turning back to Salta, he reappeared at the hospital and was asked by the staff what he had seen on his journey. “In truth, what do I see?” he reflected. “At least I am not nourished in the same ways as the tourists, and I find it strange to find, on the tourist brochures of Jujuy, for example, the Altar of the Fatherland, the cathedral where the national ensign was blessed, the jewel of the pulpit and the miraculous little virgin of Río Blanco and Pompeii. ... No, one doesn’t come to know a country or find an interpretation of life in this way. That is a luxurious façade, while its true soul is reflected in the sick of the hospitals, the detainees in the police stations or the anxious passersby one gets to know, as the Río Grande shows the turbulence of its swollen level from underneath. "
4 " Hice la amarga reflexión de que quedábamos 13. Uno más que los que tuvo Fidel tras el desembarco del 'Granma'... Pero no era el mismo jefe." --Ernesto Guevara "
― Jon Lee Anderson , Che: una vida revolucionaria. El sacrificio necesario
5 " To die with dignity does not require company "
― Jon Lee Anderson
6 " One day in May 1930, Celia took her twoyear-old son for a swim at the yacht club, but itwas already the onset of the Argentine winter,cold and windy. That night, the little boy hada coughing fit. A doctor diagnosed him as sufferingfrom asthmatic bronchitis and prescribedthe normal remedies, but the attack lasted forseveral days. Ernestito had developed chronicasthma, which would afflict him for the rest ofhis life and irrevocably change the course of hisparents’ lives. "
7 " In the anti-Communist atmosphere of the Cold War, U.S. support of right-wing military dictatorships -Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua, Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Manuel Odria in Peru, and Marcos Pérez Jiménez in Venezuela - at the expense of outspoken nationalists or left-wing regimes, was rationalized in the name of national security. "
8 " There are different versions, but according to legend, Che’s last words, when Terán came through the door to shoot him, were: “I know you’ve come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. "
9 " Charles Darwin, who had witnessed theatrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s nativeIndians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predictedthat “the country will be in the hands of whiteGaucho savages instead of copper-coloured Indians.The former being a little superior in education,as they are inferior in every moral virtue. "
10 " He would wordlessly light up his pungent antiasthma cigarettes in the middle of class and debate openly with his mathematics and literature teachers about inaccuracies he's caught them in. "
11 " with Ernestito riding on the front of his father’ssaddle; and river excursions aboard the Kid, awooden launch with a four-berth cabin that Ernestohad built at the Astillero San Isidro. Once,they traveled upriver to the famous Iguazú falls,where the Argentine and Brazilian bordersmeet, and watched the clouds of vapor rise fromthe brown cascades that roar down from the virginjungle cliffs. "
