Che Guevara "Bolivian Diary"

I'm finished reading the book. It has most extraordinary ending... the diary just stops with a record made on the 7th of October(1967) and there is just a small note saying that Che Guevara was caught on 8th of October by the army and assassinated the next day. Just by knowing the fact that it’s a real life story makes you think what a remarkable/difficult life Che had. Living is a jungle for 11 months, suffering hunger/cold/tiredness/illness and many more. It cannot be explained in other words that “Total believe in its own ideas and his ultimate goal to liberate corrupt South American countries”.


Now I’m inspired to read more books about Che Guevara. Perhaps the next book will be “The Motorcycle Diaries” or “Guerrilla Warfare”.

Difference between liberty fighters and terrorists

Recently I've started a new book - "Ernesto Che Guevara/Bolivian Diary", which day by day describes his life fighting for Bolivian liberation. I started to think, what is a main difference between Guerrilla forces, Partisans and Terrorists. All of the underground groups claim to fight for a liberty of its country and use weapons to achieve their goal (usually over through it's corrupt governments). Nowadays would it be the guerillas called simply terrorists?

Even though there is no clear answer, I tend to think that the main difference (if there is such), between terrorists and liberty fighters, is a moral-code the groups apply and a strategy they use. In many cases what we see in Afghanistan, different underground groups don't fight for a liberty, but just try to create destabilize country and make money by doing different kinds of crimes (drugs, human trafficking and etc.) Another thing what differentiates terrorists from liberty fighters is a relationship to civilians. It's seems that terrorists don't care about civilians and they would easily sacrify them in order to frighten governments or to try to proof their point.

[to be continued]