The Art of RebellionThe Art of RebellionMy topic is a book by Gyцrgy Moldova, who is a well-known writer of our country. The title of the book is The Diary. The diary of Ernesto Che Guevara that is known as the Bolivian diary around the world. It is about Guevara and his group of guerrillas fighting and failing in Bolivia. In the book the main character writes down his thoughts of freedom, his military movements, and he writes about himself, of course. I have to mention that this piece of art is only based on the original Bolivian diary; Moldova wrote some parts of the book by himself. He did it to give more clearly image of Guevara’s personality. Che Guevara is said to be the first global rebellious, and the last romantic hero. To understand this book it’s necessary to tell some words about Che’s life. Most of these moments appear in the diary in a different way. The diary is shared for days, and sometimes Guevara left out happenings of one or two weeks. In that case Moldova writes the events of that period based on other reports and documents.
Che was born in Argentina in1928. His family was-well-to do with five children. Ernesto was the oldest of them. At the age of six, his parents realized that the child suffered from asthma. That’s why he was refused to join the army at the age of 18.After that he graduated in medicine at the Buenos Aires National University in 1953.
But how could an Argentine doctor become the symbol of rebellion? It started with his trips. During his travels he got to know most of the Latin-American countries and people of that states. He spent his time curing and he was interested in archaeology. He didn’t care of politics until 1954 when he was an eyewitness to a military intervention in Guatemala against Jacobo Arbenz’s government, and the following bloody clean-up. Jacobo Arbenz was the prime minister of Guatemala at that time. He was attacked because he wanted to make an agricultural reform that wasn’t good for American monopolies. Guevara realised that this wasn’t an isolated event. Coming into conflict with the interests of the USA is inescapable.
Guevara moved to Mexico where he met a group of rebellious, and their leader Fidel Castro, who wanted to defeat dictatorship in Cuba. The group had only 82 members. Che Guevara took big part in the revolt in Cuba. The three years of fighting for Cuba’s freedom made him popular and well known. After the victory of their revolt he became the leader of the Agricultural Institute and later the chairman of the Nationality Bank of Cuba. During his public years he wrote books on guerrilla fighting skills, on socialism and of course on revolution in Cuba. He slowly realized that fighting is more suitable for him than organizing the peaceful construction of agrarian. He left Cuba in1959 because he wasn’t the friend of the soviet type of communism and his behaviour would have made difficult Cuba’s communication with the
Guevara. The revolutionary movement of Cuba in the years 1961-65 was led by the peasants of Havana. They decided to hold a congress, and in 1966 they established a democratic society. They gave themselves the first constitution, signed by a President with an understanding of the people. According to their policy they would have established a system of democracy, with the power of the congress and the distribution of power among elected representatives. At the end of their congress a majority was elected, and they established in a socialist structure a revolutionary government. In spite of its success it led to the dictatorship. Their first revolution was conducted on a small scale. It was organized under the idea that there was great hope for the future of Cuba. They had planned that some of the working class, particularly the youth, could be formed in the new society. During the congress they also established a Nationalist Party. They founded the government of Havana the day before the party, in 1876, was inaugurated, but in November 1877 the dictatorship collapsed, and the government moved into the hands of a new, non-revolutionary government. This became known as the Communist Revolution. The dictatorship ended in 1963, and a Communist Party of Cuba was created in 1975. By 1973 the Communist Party of Cuba was disbanded by an international communist movement. Che Guevara returned to Venezuela in 1975.
‣ Cuba and the revolution (1994)
When the Cuban economy started to crash in 1994, President Fidel Castro and his advisors began negotiations to make a peaceful transition to an economic democratic socialist government in South American. The negotiations were a mistake, and many more failed. However, the political situation in Bolivarian Cuba began to recover and the government of President Robert Mugabe started acting more towards a peaceful transition.
After the economic reforms were introduced in March 1995, the political situation in Venezuela fell further under the hands of the right wing of the government. Many economic policies, but with minimal reform, were implemented to keep unemployment at 8%, and the people no longer used tobacco. They started a revolution and called it the People’s Republic of Venezuela. During this revolution President Mugabe initiated a series of economic reforms which included a large amount of spending on education, as well as the establishment of many social and cultural reform programs. The population started to turn out for the revolution on a regular basis. This turned out to serve the economic interests of the country. In 1997 the government came to power, and after four years of the economic system recovery there was a decent economic growth as a result. After several major financial crisis problems, the economy had recovered to their peak, and President Mugabe was rewarded with a contract to restore order in the country.
In 2005 the Government of President Mugabe was elected President. In August 2005 the government was overthrown by a landslide in the Presidential Election. The government was so large that President Mugabe used the term “Nationalist Youth Association” for the majority of his term. However, this term was only used as a political term to describe the youth organization (for example the Nationalist Action Committee of Venezuela). However, after the death of President Hugo Chavez, and especially Chavez – the former, and now