Barrilete and its “Report on Che”

Abstract

Che Guevara's presence in the intellectual and artistic field of the 1960s was mixed and persistant, probably like no other. This paper focuses on one of these multiple appearances: the 13th number of the cultural magazine Barrilete, directed by Alberto Costa and Carlos Patiño, pages in which a series of texts under the title “Report on Che” can be read. Between passion and pessimism, homage and digression, glory and humanization, certainty and doubt; reading these poems allows an approach to the image of Che from different angles.