What’s on Our Nightstands: “Who Killed Che?”

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I am reading the compelling book Who Killed Che?: How the CIA Got Away with Murder (2011) by Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith. As Ricardo Alarcon (President of Cuban National Assembly) writes in his foreword, “This book presents a perceptive and coherent explanation of the death of Ernesto Che Guevara, on October 9^th 1967, after he had been captured, injured, and disarmed two days previously.” Ratner and Smith demonstrate that “the U.S. Government, particularly its Central Intelligence Agency, had Che murdered, having secured the participation of its Bolivian client state.”

Editorial Description: In compelling detail two leading U.S. civil rights attorneys recount the extraordinary life and deliberate killing of the world’s most storied revolutionary: Ernesto Che Guevara. Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith survey the extraordinary trajectory of Che’s career, from an early politicization recounted in the Motorcycle Diaries, through meetings with his compañero Fidel Castro…

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