Book Title: Tania. Undercover with Che Guevara in Bolivia
Author: Ulises Estrada
“Tania is a gripping account of the extraordinary woman who fought and died alongside Che Guevara in Bolivia. As her companero in Cuba, Ulises Estrada is uniquely placed to provide a candid political biography of a passionate and intelligent young woman, fearlessly dedicated to the liberation of Latin America in the 1960s.
Tania was born Haydee Tamara Bunke Bider, in Argentina, 1937, to German communist parents. Her family moved to East Germany after the war, but Tania was soon drawn to the Cuban Revolution. She eventually became one of Cuba’s most successful agents in Latin America, penetrating Bolivian high society and preparing the way for Che Guevara’s clandestine entry into the country. When her cover was blown, Tania joined Che’s guerrilla movement but was killed in an ambush in August 1967. She was only 30 years old.
Ulises Estrada was a central figure in Cuba’s support for revolutionary and liberation movements in Latin America and Africa. He was a key organiser of Che Guevara’s guerrilla mission to Bolivia. Although against the rules of clandestine work, Tania and Ulises fell in love, and planned to make a life together after Tania’s return from Bolivia.”
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Tania. Undercover with Che Guevara in Bolivia
By Andrews, John at Aug 21, 2010 07:23 AM
The book is set out as follows:
· Acknowledgments
· Preface by Ulises Estrada
· Prologue by Luis Suarez
· Chapter 1 – Historical Context
· Chapter 2 – Operation Fantasma
· Chapter 3 – The Tania Case
· Chapter 4 - Operational Training inCuba
· Chapter 5 – Preparing forLatin America
· Chapter 6 – Tania and Ulises
· Chapter 7 – Failed Cover
· Chapter 8 – The Birth of Laura Gutierrez Bauer
· Chapter 9 -Tania’s First Year inBolivia
· Chapter 10 – An Encounter with Ariel
· Chapter 11 –Reunion with Che
· Chapter 12 – Tania the Guerilla
· Chapter 13 – Return toCuba
· Chapter 14 – “My Little Ita”
· Appendices 1 to 17
· Notes, List of Acronyms and List of Aliases
This excellent book details the brief life of Tania within the historical context of the 1940s, 1950s and the 1960s inArgentina , Europe, Cuba and Bolivia
This book compliments Che Guevara’s Bolivian Diary; read together the reader gets a better understanding of what the international fighters were trying to achieve inBolivia and South America in the mid 1960s. The account of Tania’s death in the book is heart-breaking, even though you know how it all ends even before you start reading the book, as is the unearthing of her remains in Bolivia and the subsequent reburial in Cuba
Thirty eight international fighters, including Che Guevara and Tania, died inBolivia
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