Che Guevara
Military Commander
1928 – 1967
Who was Che Guevara?
Ernesto "Che" Guevara, commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed. His burgeoning desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Árbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow at the behest of the United Fruit Company solidified Guevara's political ideology. Later, in Mexico City, he met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht, Granma, with the intention of overthrowing US-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second-in-command, and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.
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- Born
- Jun 14, 1928
Rosario - Also known as
- Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna
- Ché
- Ernesto Guevara
- El Che
- Dr. Che Guevara
- El Fuser
- Ernesto "Che" Guevara
- Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
- Che
- Ernestito
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Aleida March
(1959/06/02 - 1967/10/09) - Hilda Gadea
(1955/09/18 - 1959/05/22)
- Aleida March
- Children
- Religion
- Atheism
- Ethnicity
- Basque people
- White Latin American
- Argentinian people
- Nationality
- Argentina
- Profession
- Education
- Doctor of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires
(1948 - 1953/04)
- Doctor of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires
- Lived in
- Santa Fe Province
- Rosario
- Buenos Aires
- Guatemala City
- Died
- Oct 9, 1967
La Higuera
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on July 23, 2013
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