Biography of Che Guevara

Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Spanish pronunciation June 14,[1] 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as el Che or commonly Che, Argentine Marxist revolutionary,  consultant, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theoretician. A major  identity of the Cuban revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global vestige in popular culture.

As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalize by the poorness,hunger and disease he witnessed.[6] His burgeoning desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalistic absorption of Latin America by the United States prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social rectify under President Jacobo Árbenz, whose ultimate CIA-assisted overthrow at the behest of the United Fruit Company coagulated Guevara's political mentality.[6] 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 desire of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.[7] Guevara soon rose to feature among the insurgents, was promoted to second-in-command, and played a central role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista administration.[8]



Following the Cuban Revolution, Guevara accomplished a number of key roles in the new government. These covered reviewing the appeals and firing squads for those peccant as war criminals during the revolutionary bench,[9] instituting agrarian land reform as minister of industries, helping spearhead a effectual nation wide literacy campaign, serving as both national bank president and instructional director for Cuba's armed forces, and traversing the universe as a diplomat on behalf of Cuban socialism. Such positions also allowed him to play a central role in training the troop forces who repelled the Bay of Pigs Invasion[10] and bringing the Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles to Cuba as precipitated the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.[11] Additionally, he was a fruitful writer and diarist, composing a seminal manual on guerrilla warfare, along with a best-selling memoir about his juvenile continental motorcycle journey. His experiences and studying of Marxism–Leninism led him to posit that the Third World's underdevelopment and dependence was an congenital result of imperialism, neocolonialism, and monopoly capitalism, with the only  redress being proletarian internationalism and world revolution.[12][13] Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to foment twirl abroad, first unsuccessfully in Congo-Kinshasa and later in Bolivia, where he was captured by CIA-assisted Bolivian forces and summarily executed.[14]



Guevara bone both a revered and reviled historical figure, polarized in the collective  fancy in a multitude of biographies, memoirs, essays, documentaries, songs, and films. As a result of his perceived martyrdom, skaldic invocations for class struggle, and desire to create the consciousness of a "new man" driven by moral rather than  element incentives, he has evolved into a quintessential icon of various leftist-inspired movements. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most puissant people of the 20th century,[15] while an Alberto Korda photograph of him, titled Guerrillero Heroico (shown), was mentioned by the Maryland Institute College of Art as "the most famous photograph in the world".[16]