{"id":1979,"date":"2007-10-05T12:18:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T19:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2007-10-05T12:18:31","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T19:18:31","slug":"comandante-che-40-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/10\/05\/comandante-che-40-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Comandante Che: 40 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest100507\/2007_10_05_dosal.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest100507\/2007_10_05_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/havanajournal.com\/images\/uploads\/che-guevara-2.jpg\"\/><em>GUEST: Paul J. Dosal, Professor of History, University of South Florida, Author of Comandante Che: Guerrilla Soldier, Commander, and Strategist, 1956 &#8211; 1967<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cuban media is reporting that Cuban doctors restored the eyesight of the man who executed Ernesto \u201cChe\u201d Guevara forty years ago. Mario Teran, a Bolivian army sergeant in 1967, underwent cataracts surgery in Bolivia under a Cuban program that offers free eye care in Latin America. Though the surgery took place last year, Cuban media reported the story in the lead up to 40th anniversary commemoration plans for Che on the island nation. After successfully participating in the Cuban revolution as a Comandante, Che went on first to the Congo and then to Bolivia to spread armed rebellion. His career as a revolutionary came to an end after being captured on October 8, 1967 by the Bolivian army. He was executed the very next day. In the decades that have followed, Che has endured as a symbol of struggle in an unjust world. While the symbolic and political dimension of Che\u2019s legacy has been given ample attention, the focus on his historical record as a Comandante has not. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Paul J. Dosal, Professor of History, University of South Florida, Author of Comandante Che: Guerrilla Soldier, Commander, and Strategist, 1956 &#8211; 1967 Cuban media is reporting that Cuban doctors restored the eyesight of the man who executed Ernesto \u201cChe\u201d Guevara forty years ago. Mario Teran, a Bolivian army sergeant in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}