 The regional socio-historical situation was framed, on the one side, by the Cuban revolution, and the numerous military dictatorships throughout the Latin American subcontinent, on the other, that took place as a consequence of the Cold War and the failures of economic development in Latin America. The Cuban revolution, however, had a profound impact in the socio-political-cultural imagination throughout Latin America. In the iconic image of Che Guevara (1928–1967), the revolution promise a transformation of the Latin American human being—el nuevo hombre—as it also raised the possibility of political sovereignty for Latin American nations. The decade of the sixties in Latin American was a time of political turmoil, but above all of cultural renewal and utopian yearning.