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Ernesto "Che" Guevara (14 June
1928 – 9 October 1967) 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.
Che Guevara met up with Fidel Castro and his group
of exiled revolutionaries in Mexico. Guevara played a key role in Castro’s
seizure of power from Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and later served
as Castro’s right-hand man and minister of industry. Guevara strongly opposed
U.S. domination in Latin America and advocated peasant-based revolutions to
combat social injustice in Third World countries. Castro later described him as
“an artist of revolutionary warfare.”
Following the Cuban Revolution, Guevara performed a
number of key roles in the new government. These included reviewing the appeals
and firing squads for those convicted as war criminals during the revolutionary
tribunals, instituting agrarian land reform as minister of industries, helping
spearhead a successful nationwide literacy campaign, serving as both national
bank president and instructional director for Cuba's armed forces, and
traversing the globe as a diplomat on behalf of Cuban socialism.
Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to foment revolution
abroad, first unsuccessfully
in Congo-Kinshasa
and later in Bolivia,
where he was captured by CIA-assisted
Bolivian forces.
His Death
On October 9, 1967, socialist revolutionary and
guerilla leader Che Guevara, age 39, is killed by the Bolivian army. The
U.S.-military-backed Bolivian forces captured Guevara on October 8 while
battling his band of guerillas in Bolivia and executed him the following day.
His hands were cut off as proof of death and his body was buried in an unmarked
grave.
In 1997, Guevara’s remains were found and sent back
to Cuba, where they were reburied in a ceremony attended by President Fidel
Castro and thousands of Cubans.
Following his death, Guevara achieved hero status
among people around the world as a symbol of anti-imperialism and revolution. Time
magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
A 1960 photo taken by Alberto Korda of Guevara in a beret became iconic and has
since appeared on countless posters and T-shirts.
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