The leftist podcast about Steven Soderbergh movies has finally arrived at CHE, Soderbergh's two-part biopic of (Argentine) Cuban Revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Joining us to provide the kind of deep historical context you know we go crazy for is historian of Cuba and scholar of Latin American and Caribbean history Andrés Pertierra! We have never read more in preparation for an episode, folks, so we hope you dig this one as much as we did. Hasta la victoria siempre, amigos.

Further Reading (direct from Andrés!):

Anderson, John Lee. Che: A Revolutionary Life. Grove, 1997.

"The Cuban Exodus" by Andrés Pertierra

The great (Pulitzer Prize!) winning intro text: Ferrer, Ada. Cuba: An American History. Scribner, 2021. Some relevant books on Cuban Revolution and other countries: Gleijeses, Piero. Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976. University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Schoultz, Lars. That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution. University of North Carolina Press, 2009. Yordanov, Radoslav. Our Comrades in Havana: Cuba, the Soviet Union, & Eastern Europe, 1959-1991. Cold War International History Project. Stanford University Press, 2024. Key texts for context on what's happening internally: Guerra, Lillian. Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971. University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Mesa-Lago, Carmelo. Cuba in the 1970s: Pragmatism and Institutionalization. University of New Mexico Press, 1978.

Further Viewing (shout out to Andrés for these, too!):

THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES (Salles, 2004)

CONDUCTA IMPROPRIA (Almendros & Jiménez Leal, 1984)

CHE and the Digital Cinema Revolution!

Soderbergh getting heckled at Q&A

FRESA Y CHOCOLATE (Gutiérrez Alea & Carlos Tabío, 1984)

END OF A REVOLUTION (Moser, 1967)

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