Pombo

by Villegas, Harry; Waters, Mary-Alice

• ISBN13: 9780873488334
• ISBN10: 0873488334
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-08-01
• Publisher: Pathfinder Pr

Summary

Pombo: a man of Che's guerrilla is a never-before-published story of the 1966-68 revolutionary campaign in Bolivia led by Ernesto Che Guevara. It is the diary and account of Pombo - a member of Guevara's general staff, a young Cuban fighter still in his 20s and already a veteran of a decade of struggle around the globe. Harry Villegas, known the world over by his nom de guerre, Pombo, is today a brigadier general in Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces. His day-by-day account of an epic chapter in the history of the Americas illuminates the times we are living through and foreshadows the titanic class battles that will mark the Americas of the 21st century.

Table of Contents

Harry Villegas (Pombo)	9	(6)
Publisher's preface	15	(10)
Mary-Alice Waters
Introduction	25	(12)
Harry Villegas
`Create two, three...many Vietnams': Message to the Tricontinental by Ernesto Che Guevara	37	(20)
Chronology	57	(24)
PART 1 JULY 1966 - MAY 1967	81	(106)
July 1966	81	(8)
August 1966	89	(8)
September 1966	97	(18)
October 1966	115	(10)
November 1966	125	(6)
December 1966	131	(5)
January 1967	136	(5)
February 1967	141	(9)
March 1967 (ELN Communique no.1)	150	(12)
April 1967 (ELN Communique no. 2)	162	(13)
May 1967 (ELN Communique no. 3)	175	(12)
PART 2 MAY 1967 - MARCH 1968	187	(137)
From El Espino to the Rio Grande	187	(7)
From the Rio Grande and the Rosita to Florida (ELN Communique no. 4)	194	(5)
The battle of June 26	199	(2)
On the road to Paliza, toward the Los Ajos river (ELN Communique no. 5: To the Miners of Bolivia)	201	(8)
Attack on Samaipata	209	(3)
From Samaipata to the Outskirts of El Filo	212	(6)
The battle of July 27	218	(2)
The battle of July 30	220	(3)
Near the Rosita river	223	(5)
En route to the Rosita river	228	(5)
In the Vado del Yeso	233	(3)
Our rear guard: Joaquin's column	236	(12)
A fatal rendezvous missed	248	(4)
Along the La Pesca river to Masicuri	252	(3)
From Alto Seco to Pucara	255	(3)
The battle of September 26	258	(9)
The Yuro ravine	267	(5)
Lt. Gary Prado's version	272	(1)
At the Mizque river	273	(1)
At Abra del Picacho	274	(4)
At the Santa Elena river	278	(2)
Toward Valle Grande	280	(7)
Combat in Mataral	287	(2)
In Pulquina and San Isidro	289	(7)
The departure	296	(8)
From Cochabamba to La Paz	304	(3)
From La Paz to Chile	307	(6)
A week in Chile	313	(5)
From Tahiti to Cuba	318	(6)
List of combatants	324	(2)
Glossary	326	(26)
Index	352