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>I think actually ABBA was not going that far back into >history. There's Rio Grande in Spain, there's Rio >Grande in Texas, but above all, there's Rio Grande in >Bolivia, which was actually crossed by Che Guevara and >his Guerrilleros before being captured and executed. >Of course there are many details in the song that >would not check out with the factual details of that >final chapter in Che's history (drums, bugle calls, >and that Fernando was portrayed as an ageing survivor >of the conflict), but the chilling and ominous >atmosphere, the mention of the enemy "getting closer", >and the protagonists fighting for "liberty" in "this >land" (as opposed to "our land"), would all suggest >that it was a very tragic incident that happened not >so long time ago. There is of course massive use of >poetic licence in that song, like Che becoming >Fernando and a living old man, but I can only think of >that incident in history that would exactly echo the >pathos created in that song. And I don't think ABBA >at that time could relate to Mexicans in defense of >their homeland or the Spanish civil war. Instead, >being children of the raging sixties, they would have >had a lot of sympathy with the Argentinian >revolutionary.

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