Che Guevara's 'Motorcycle Diaries' Given UNESCO World Heritage Status Hispanically Speaking News
go to original July 30, 2013

Trailer from Walter Salles's 2004 "Motorcycle Diaries" - the dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling. (tinymoonstar)

This month UNESCO gave guerrilla revolutionary Che Guevara’s manuscripts including the “Motorcycle Diaries’ world heritage status.  In doing so UNESCO recognized that the items belonging to and about Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara are worthy of preserving for prosperity and must be protected with the assistance of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

UNESCO gave this exclusive status to Guevara’s documents that include the original manuscripts of Che’s youthful adventures across Latin American that became the “Motorcycle Diaries’ as well as his personal diary in Bolivia that he kept shortly before he was executed by the military in 1967.

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