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Organization of Solidarity of Asian, Af-
rican, and Latin American Peoples—
referred to as the Tricontinental, 144,
149, 151–52, 227
Oriente Province (Cuba), 69, 73, 82, 85
Ovando, Alfredo (general and de facto
president of Bolivia, 1969–1970),
169, 171, 175, 180, 183–84
País, Frank, 74, 77–78
peasant and peasantry, 38–39, 52, 54,
73–75, 77–78, 83, 86, 93, 95–96,
107–8, 111, 114–15, 148, 151, 159,
169, 173–74, 177, 180, 203, 206
People’s Republic of China, 94, 121, 124,
194
Peredo, Antonio (Bolivian journalist
and oldest brother of Coco, Inti, and
Chato Peredo), 185–86, 206
Peredo, Guido (code name “Inti,” Boliv-
ian member of Che’s guerrilla force
in Bolivia), 153–54, 158, 166, 185,
200–201, 206
Peredo, Osvaldo (nickname “Chato,”
Bolivian political activist and
younger brother of Antonio, Inti and
Coco Peredo), 201, 206
Peredo, Roberto (code name “Coco,”
Bolivian member of Che’s guerrilla
force in Bolivia), 153–54, 156–58,
162, 185, 201, 206
Perón, eva (evita), 13–14
Perón, Juan (general and former presi-
dent of Argentina), 6–7, 13–14, 39
Peronism, 7, 13
Peru, 23, 27, 29–33, 39–40, 43, 51, 56,
73, 147–49, 151, 153, 158, 170, 200,
203, 211, 214
Peruvian Communist Party, 31
Pesce, Hugo (Peruvian doctor and pro-
fessor who specialized in Leprology),
31, 40
Peurifoy, John (U.S. Ambassador to
Guatemala during the U.S.-backed
coup that overthrew the democratic
government of Jacobo Arbenz in
1954), 53
Pinar del Rio (Cuba), 53
Pisani, Salvador (director of clinic in
Buenos Aires where Che worked as a
student), 12–13, 20
Poverty, 28, 39, 44, 115, 203, 209
Prado, Gary (officer in charge of Boliv-
ian Ranger unit which captured
Che), 163–66, 222
Pro-Chinese Communist Party of Bo-
livia, 149, 153, 158
Pro-Soviet Communist Party of Bolivia,
149, 153, 156, 178, 185
Pro-Soviet (orthodox) Communists,
100–101, 125, 156, 194–95
Quebrada de Yuro (rugged ravine in Bo-
livia where Che was captured), 163,
165, 167, 170–71
Quintanilla, Roberto (colonel in the
Bolivian intelligence service who
ordered Che’s hands to be cut off for
fingerprints and a death mask made
of his face), 183
Radio Rebelde (rebel radio station estab-
lished by Che during Cuban Revolu-
tion), 79, 88
Ranger Regiment Manchego no. 2 (Bo-
livian army regiment trained by US
advisors to fight Che’s guerrilla force
in Bolivia), 161–65, 175, 178
Rebel Army (Cuban revolutionary guer-
rilla force led by Fidel Castro), 72–82,
88, 92–93, 96
Redford, Robert (famous U.S. film actor,
producer and director), 35, 222, 224
Redondo, Ciro (Cuban revolutionary
who fought alongside Che in the Si-
erra Madre mountains and was killed
in action), 77
right-wing (adj.), 186, 190, 206