Their eight-month trip gave them a first-hand glimpse of the hardships, wounds, and injustices inflicted on the continent by its 16th-century colonizers. It shook Guevara, the scion of a privileged background, to his core and ignited a revolutionary fervor that was to burst forth in later years.
在這趟長達 8 個月旅程中，他們目睹拉丁美洲自 500 年前殖民者登陸以來累積的種種創傷、苦難與不義，旅途中的所見所聞，深深衝擊著原本衣食無虞的切．格瓦拉，也在他心裡埋下了日後改造世界的革命之火。