The commercialisation of his image was at first a means of keeping his spirit alive, which was the same approach Héctor Oesterheld and Alberto Breccia took in 1968, the year after Guevara’s death. Outside Central and South America, history has largely reduced Ernesto “Che” Guevara to an iconic t-shirt design, diminishing his status as an important force for change, most lastingly in Cuba. It contextualises the dangers of two Argentinian creators living under a right wing military dictatorship in the late 1960s celebrating the life of a left-wing revolutionary. The small print at the front of a book is generally of greater interest to librarians and cataloguers than readers, but don’t miss the eight lines noting the publication history opening Life of Che.
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