Chapter 4 Scraps of Lives II

• Jolie:
• When I wake up I am still very curious about the rest of Alex's guests so I continue my research in the always reliable Wikipedia.
• Giuseppe Garibaldi: was an Italian military, revolutionary and politician, who also had Peruvian nationality, who, together with the King of Sardinia Victor Emmanuel II, was one of the main leaders and architects of the unification of Italy
• In 1827, at the age of twenty, he was part of the crew of the Cortese, a ship that left Nice and traveled through the Black Sea, Istanbul and Galatia, witnessing the Turkish-Russian war.
• In 1832, and being only twenty-five years old, he was appointed captain of the ship Clorinda, with which he again traveled the Black Sea. Bad luck wanted this ship to be hijacked by some Turkish pirates. It is said that Giuseppe Garibaldi was about to be shot, but was only wounded in the hand. With the help of the rest of the crew and his cousin, he managed to escape the pirates and escape.
• After more than six years of absence - exactly seventy-three months - Giuseppe returned to his hometown. But in 1833 he returned to Istanbul on a ship captained by Emile Barrault. It was at this time that he became known for his speeches on freedom.
• Wow, he was belligerent from a very young age.
• A year later, he participated in Mazzini's Young Italy movement, giving his life to the homeland and winning the captain's stripes in the Piedmont Navy. They nicknamed him Cleómbroto, as if he were the mythical Spartan hero, and he was involved in the Piedmont insurrection, which cost him a death sentence, after his capture and after
• being considered one of the ringleaders of the revolt.
• Forced to flee, he escaped to Nice, passing by the house of his friend Giuseppe Pares in Marseille, where he embarked for the Black Sea and in 1835 he was in Tunis. Returning to Marseilles, he left for South America in the Nautonnier brig, posing as a certain Borrel - referring to the revolutionary martyr Joseph Borrel -, being followed by other comrades of Young Italy such as Captain Juan Lamberti. Once he arrived at his new destination, he settled in Rio Grande do Sul.
• Arrived in South America, he contacted other Italian dissidents about the Young Italy riots and became president of the branch of this organization in the American continent thanks to his friend Giuseppe Stefano Grondona.
• He was involved in wars for the liberation of countries like Brazil, Uruguay, Nicaragua and Argentina. While in Italy he sought unification, in South America he sought the fragmentation of
• the former colonies.
• Today the memory of Garibaldi is very much alive in Uruguay. In Salto there is a monument to Garibaldi of important scale, built in sandstone and designed by the architect Juan Giovanni Veltroni. This monument is located on Giuseppe Garibaldi avenue, close to the battle area, and has been the object of reminders from the Italian community and has received visits from Garibaldi's descendants on several occasions.
• In Salto... Hmmm. According to Alex said, that's where he died. Well ... His second identity has nothing to envy the first.
• Ernesto Guevara known as"Che Guevara" or simply "Che", was a Cuban nationalized Argentine doctor, politician, guerrilla, writer, journalist and communist revolutionary.
• He was one of the ideologues and commanders of the Cuban Revolution. Guevara participated from the armed uprising until 1965 in the organization of the Cuban State. He held various senior positions in his administration and in his Government, especially in the economic area. He was president of the National Bank, director of the Department of Industrialization of the Institute of National Agrarian Reform (INRA) and Minister of Industry. In the diplomatic area, he acted as head of several
• international missions.
• Convinced of the need to extend the armed struggle throughout the third world, Che Guevara promoted the installation of guerrilla "foci" in several Latin American countries. Between 1965 and 1967, he himself fought in the Congo and Bolivia. In the latter country, he was captured, tortured and executed by the Bolivian Army in collaboration with the CIA on October 9, 1967.
• His figure, as a symbol of global relevance, arouses great passions in public opinion both for and against. For many of his supporters he represents the fight against social injustices, while his detractors consider him an authoritarian and violent character.
• He participated in the war for the liberation of Cuba from 1956 to 1959. Reaching the rank of commander and sharing a close friendship with the later disappeared Camilo Cienfuegos. Guevara would distinguish himself by integrating his troops with guajiros and blacks, who were then the most marginalized sector of the country, at a time when racism and racial segregation were still a powerful force, even among the members of the July 26 Movement themselves.
• At the head of the number eight column, he achieved important victories, among which the battle of Santa Clara on August 31, 1958 stands out. It opened the way for the insurgents to the west and facilitated the entrance to Havana.
• During the first years of the
• Cuban Revolution, he held various senior positions in his administration and
• government, especially in the economic area. He was president of the National
• Bank, director of the Industrialization Department of the National Agrarian
• Reform Institute (INRA) and Minister of Industry.
• Che Guevara always had a strongly internationalist thinking. Not only was he in favor of new guerrilla experiences opening up in other parts of the world, but he also believed that only by generalizing the armed struggle in Latin America, Asia and Africa would it be possible to defeat imperialism. Guevara openly disagreed with the
• strategy of peaceful coexistence proposed by the Soviet Union and he himself
• saw himself fighting in other revolutions.
• That's my hero!
• In 1966 Bolivia was governed by a military dictatorship led by General René Barrientos, who had overthrown
• President Víctor Paz Estenssoro and put an end to the 1952 Revolution, of a nationalist-popular tendency, promoted by the MNR.
• On November 7, 1966, the day on which his Diario de Bolivia begins, Ernesto Guevara settled in a mountainous and jungle area located near the Ñancahuazú River, in the southeast of the country, where the last foothills of the Cordillera de los Andes meet with the Gran Chaco region.
• In the battle in Quebrada del Churo, Guevara was shot in his left leg, taken prisoner together with Simeón Cuba Sanabria (Willy) and transferred to La Higuera where they were held at the school, in separate classrooms. There they would also place the corpses of the dead guerrillas and Juan Pablo Chang would also be imprisoned the next day. Among the belongings seized by the military was the newspaper that Che kept in Bolivia.
• His executioner described Che Guevara's last moments as follows:
• "When I arrived, Che was sitting on a bench. When he saw me he said: "You have come to kill me." I felt self-conscious and lowered my head without responding. Then he asked me: "What did the others say?" I replied that they had not said anything and he replied: "They were brave!" I did not dare to shoot.
• At that moment I saw Che big, very big, huge. His eyes were shining brightly. I felt like he was on top of me and when he stared at me, I got dizzy. "
• Huh ... Compulsion?
• "I thought that with a quick movement Che could take the weapon from me. "Be calm," he said, "and aim well!" He's going to kill a man! Then I took a step back, towards the doorway, closed my eyes and fired the first burst. Che, with his legs shattered, fell to the ground, contorted and began to spread a lot of blood. I regained my spirits and fired the second round, hitting him in the
• arm, shoulder, and heart. He was already dead. "
• A bag of lies, the man is very much alive.
• On June 28, 1997, thanks to the statements of retired General Mario Vargas Salinas and the international pressure that led the Bolivian government of Gonzalo Sánchez to authorize the initiation of investigations, a team of Cuban scientists found seven bodies clandestinely buried in Valle Grande. a single mass grave, and they identified
• among them, with the support of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, which
• was the first group that arrived on November 29, 1995, that of Ernesto Guevara
• and those of six of his men, Alberto Fernández Montes de Oca (Pacho), René Martínez Tamayo (Arturo), Orlando Pantoja Tamayo (Olo), Aniceto Reinaga (Aniceto), Simeón Cuba (Willy) and Juan Pablo Chang (El Chino).
• The body, according to the team's report, lacked hands, had a high formaldehyde content, and was wearing clothing and items compatible with those assumed to have been at the time of burial (it was found covered with a jacket that in one In his pockets he had a bag with pipe tobacco cuttings). The anthropologist Héctor Soto carried out the physical examination that, by defining the frontal features, identified Guevara.
• Some analysts affirm that the body is not that of Che.
• Obviously not!
• It's a shame. There's no info about what he does nowadays.