UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC and CULTURAL ORGANIZATION
Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1928-1967) an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. In the photo, Che (right) in a meeting with French existentialist philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre (center) and Simone de Beauvoir in March 1960. Sartre later wrote that Che was “the most complete human being of our time”. In addition to Spanish, Guevara was fluent in French. PHOTO/TEXT/Wikipedia
Documentary heritage submitted by Bolivia and Cuba and recommended for inclusion in the Memory of the World Register in 2013.
The inventory of the documents of the Documentary Collection “Life and Works of Ernesto Che Guevara: from the originals manuscripts of its adolescence and youth to the campaign Diary in Bolivia”, includes 1007 documents ? grouped in a total of 8197 pages?, that cover the period from 1928 to 1967, concerning his revolutionary work, essays, news paper articles, biographical materials and personal works, as well as his correspondence with different persons, and his family. Of the total sum, 431 are manuscripts by Che and 567 are documents about Che or related to him. It also includes valuable iconographic material by and about Che, films, letters and museum pieces.