Bolivia releases Che Guevara's final diaries

With Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara enjoying a renaissance on the silver screen, Bolivian officials have unveiled his original journals dating from 1966-67. On Monday, Bolivia released two frayed notebooks, a logbook and several photographs that had been sealed inside a vault since 1986. "Several transcripts of the diary have been published … but this is the first time the public will be able to look at the handwritten journals," the country's vice-minister of culture, Pablo Groux, told Reuters. Bolivia has a plan to publish the diaries, which chronicle Guevara's attempt to spread revolution in Bolivia. Argentinian-born Guevara kept diaries throughout his travels in South and Central America. His treatise on guerrilla warfare is also considered a seminal work. Trained as a doctor, he witnessed the 1954 CIA-backed... [read full story]