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Inscribed on the Memory of the World Regional Register for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2010 (by Cuba) and on the MoW International Register in 2013 (by Cuba and Bolivia), the works of Ernesto Che Guevara de la Serna (1928-1967), intellectual and revolutionary without borders, summarize the expression of a life whose example, through action and ideas, is inscribed in the history of the Latin American political thought of the second half of the 20th century. This legacy exceeds the limits of the Third World as it embodies the permanent search for an emancipatory strategy for the underprivileged. In the field of revolutionary action and theory, his contributions in the form of essays, articles and speeches, are considerable in depth and scope. His ideas injected anti-dogmatic and humanist creative elements into Marxist theory, in an elaboration that transcends his time, such as in his studies on the socio-political reality of Latin America and other exploited continents, the mechanisms of power, and the relationships between economic systems and their political structures. All of this with concrete proposals, and a reflective and analytical spirit. Formed in the Cuban and Latin American experience, his ideas have a universal character, as evidenced by the worldwide influence of his writings and his personal example, especially by doing what he preached, as an act of faith.

The collection ranges from original manuscripts from his adolescence and youth to the Bolivian Campaign Diary: there are 1,007 documents, on a total of 8,179 pages that cover the years 1928-1967, referring to his revolutionary work, press articles, biographical and personal materials, as well as correspondence with various personalities and with his family. Of the total documents, 431 are Che's manuscripts, and 567 are about Che or related to him. The collection includes iconographic material of Che and related to him.

This fonds has systematized the study of the life and works of Che, characterized by a self-taught education and a wide intellectual universe that interrelates theory with practice and brings him closer, from early times, to the knowledge of Latin America through two trips he made across the continent in the early 1950s. On those trips he observed and contrasted the misery of the masses with corrupt governments. These inquiries would later lead him to find "the paths of the Revolution", participate in the fight in Cuba, become a political leader of universal stature, and finally an internationalist as the closing of a life cycle. He died at the age of 39, reinforcing Jean Paul Sartre’s description of him as "the most complete man of his time".