Revolution Within the Revolution: A Caracas Collective and the Face of Che Guevara
2009; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 31; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/10714410903132949
ISSN1556-3022
Autores Tópico(s)Memory, violence, and history
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes I gratefully acknowledge the Research Abroad Scholarship administered by the Faculty and Graduate Studies and Research, University of Alberta, for a four-month field work grant beginning in April 2007 supporting this case study. Additionally, this research was made possible by the support of Dr. Daniel Mato, my host mentor, responsible for the Programa Globalización, Cultura y Transformaciones Sociales de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales de la Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) in Caracas. In this program, joint projects are undertaken with and supported in part by the Latin American Association of Sociology, and the Latin American Council of Social Sciences among others. I am grateful to Dr. Max van Manen for his help and judicious comments in editing the final version of this article. Likewise, the thoughtful and constructive comments of the anonymous external reviewers and others such as Dr. C. Adams and Dr. J. R. Kelly are well appreciated. All photographs in this article were taken by M.-C. Cambre unless otherwise credited. This original was famously copyright free. In a recent incident in Baghdad, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi flung his shoes at visiting U.S. President George W. Bush, and was immediately taken into custody as a result. The Associated Press reported that one day after the incident, Mr. al-Zeidi's apartment “was decorated with a poster of Latin American revolutionary leader Che Guevara” (Reid 2008 Reid , R. ( 2008 ). Shoe Thrower an Instant Hero . The Toronto Star (December 18), A4 . [Google Scholar], A4). The popular two-tone image also appeared around this time, the work of Irish artist, Jim Fitzpatrick, who slightly tilted the eye position upward prompting many to describe Guevara's attitude as defiant and courageous. Although this was not the raw, more vulnerable feeling transmitted by the original, it was just as infectious and promoted further spread of the image. (Spanish original) Mientras en Cuba persiste la dimensión pública de su figura, en el mundo capitalista perdura ante todo como un tópico central de la contracultura juvenil. El póster marca el territorio liberado en el cuarto del adolescente, donde el nonsense está cargado de significación. Ciertamente, Guevara no funda por sí solo el imaginario juvenil, pero en su legado confluyen algunos de sus rasgos principales: el impulso al nomadismo, el sentimiento anti-sistema, el ideal de una muerte romántica en el esplendor, todo ello dispuesto en una cierta facha nocturna. Un look rebelde que no tiene nada de trivial, dado que los iconos sólo son delgados en apariencia…manteniendo, sobre todo, el espíritu de la utopía igualitaria, en una referencia que perdura fundamentalmente en la militancia juvenil. They used this expression in their declaration to contrast with their self-identification as Marxist-Leninist Bolivarians (after Simon Bolivar who contributed to Venezuela's gaining independence from Spain in the early 1800s). The word barrio normally indicates neighborhood in Spanish but the way it is used in Caracas is to designate the ghettos where self-made shanty homes sprout up, usually on hillsides or around the bloques to house the overflowing numbers of people living in poverty. Professor María Victoria Canino teaches at the School for Sociology at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and at the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC). Her research projects include the sociology of science and technology, knowledge, and development, as well as studies on petroleum, power, and social organization. And yet it is Che's image rather than Alexis' on their shirts because their struggle and the hope they nurture transcends the boundaries of their neighborhood, city, nation: they feel the link with all other groups who, one might say, “fly the same flag.” “…Guevara trascendió ese origen para proyectarse en el…luchas de liberación multiplicaron el mito.” “…conforman un teoría orientada a la acción inmediata. Ensayos de agitación, relatos de la experiencia guerrillera, están escritos en un lenguaje llano y despliegan la retórica emotiva del panfleto.”
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