Ocean State Libraries

When President Monroe issued his 1823 doctrine on U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere, it quickly became as sacred to Americans as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. But in the years after World War II, notably in Guatemala in 1954, in Brazil in 1963, in Chile in 1973, and in El Salvador in the 1980s, our government's policy of supporting repressive regimes in Central and South America hastened the death of the very doctrine that...

October 9, 1967. World-renowned revolutionary Che Guevara is dead at 39. The charismatic Argentinian had been leading guerrilla fighters in Bolivia and was captured by the Bolivian army. A sergeant volunteered to execute the prisoner. Around the globe, reactions to the assassination were mixed. In Cuba, where Guevara had helped overthrow a brutally repressive dictatorship in 1959, more than a million people mourned openly. But elsewhere, many business...

Using archival film and photo materials, Cuban director Manuel Perez paints a personal portrait of Che Guevara, the legend and symbol of revolution. Usando películas y fotografías de los archivos, el director cubano Manuel Perez hace un bosquejo personal de Che Guevara, el legendario símbolo de la revolución.