Motorcycle diaries

Che Guevara's diaries are printed with a special magic, a personality that filled the 20th century and whose shades overflowed into the third millennium, an exemplary human and revolutionary figure shining through all times. These diaries, written by Che Guevara during a journey across Latin America in 1952, during which he traveled 4,500 kilometers on a motorcycle with his friend Alberto Granado, were the gateway through which the young Argentine doctor Guevara entered the space of Latin America, reaching the "navel of the world," the Inca capital, to return from there with the flame that melted his pure soul and mixed it with the pains of the robbed continent's peoples, starting from the history of the mass genocides committed by white man's invasions, and ending with the tortured human hope. This journey is what put Guevara on the path he chose, the path of sacrifice. And on the way back to Granada, Argentina, Che Guevara wrote, after celebrating his twenty-fourth birthday: "I learned that when the great human soul splits into two conflicting parts, I will be on the side of the people. I know this, I see it stamped in God's sky, I see myself as a sacrifice in the true revolution, the great equivalent of individual will. I feel my nose widening to inhale the pungent smell of gunpowder, blood, and the death of the enemy. My body is filled with steel determination, and I prepare myself for battle..." Can we read the young Che Guevara's diaries, away from the mythic image that transcended time with his astonishing humanity and great revolutionary struggle?