Revolutionary hero, and centerpiece for countless t-shirts and flags, Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s handwritten diary, from the year leading up to his death, has been released online. This is the first time a broad audience will have access to the unedited text.

The diary was first published in Cuba in 1968, a year after Guevara’s death, but the initial translations were often altered from the original scripts, often to clean up the revolutionary’s raw language.

The texts comprise pages taken from notebooks and a diary, written in blue ink, from January to October 1967, Guevara was killed on 8 October 1967. He was in Bolivia at the time that the diary was written, attempting to spark a peasant revolution.

Bolivian researcher Carlos Soria Galvarro, who has written five books about the famous revolutionary, posted the full text on his website.

The goal is for a historical document to be within everyone’s reach. And the Internet makes it possible for everyone to know what happened 45 years ago.

Now everyone can see a virtual image of what he wrote in his handwriting.

You can download a PDF copy here, although you might want to brush up on your Spanish first as it has not been translated.

[Source: France24]