By Roberto Massari*
This is the third of a nine-part series. Read Parts 1 and 2.
BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – FLASHBACK: Scene 3 [Lima, 1952]
To answer, it is necessary to step back in time to the first encounter with Marxism that the young Ernesto had personally experienced in Lima, Peru, during a period of his life in which he had already decided to engage in the search for his own path outside Argentina.
That is, outside of a great country where, in the early 1950s, the ideological alternative for a young radical who wanted to fight for ideals of social emancipation risked being crushed between two main poles: anti-communist Peronism or Stalinist anti-imperialism.