Che Guevara(May 14,1928 - Oct 09,1967)

Ernesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist Revolutionary, Physician, Author,Guerilla Leader,Diplomat and Military Theorist.

Che  was a prolific writer and diarist, composing a seminal manual on guerilla warfare, along with a best-selling memoir  about his youthful motorcycle journey across South America.

Che's "hunger to explore the world" led him to intersperse his collegiate pursuits with two long introspective journeys that would fundamentally change the way he viewed himself and the contemporary economic conditions in Latin America. The first expedition in 1950 was a 4,500 kilometer (2,800 mi) solo trip through the rural provinces of Northern Argentina on a bicycle on which he installed a small motor. This was followed in 1951 by a nine month 8,000 kilometer (5,000 mi) continental motorcycle trek through most of South America.

 

As a young medical student, Che traveled through out Latin America and was radically transformed by the endemic poverty and alienation he witnessed.His experiences and observations during these trips led him to conclude that the region's ingrained economic inequalities were an intrinsic result of -
Capitalism
Monopolism
Neocolonialism and
Imperialism
 with the only remedy being World Revolution.

Che's involvement in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacob Arbenz whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow  solidified Guevara's political ideology.

Che while living in Mexico City, he met Raul Castro and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement , and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht,Granma, with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.

Che 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 and executed.

 

   
TIME Magazine Named Che as one of the 100 Most Influential People of the  20th Century .

Che remains a beloved national hero to many in Cuba, where his image adorns the $3 Cuban Peso and school children begin each morning by pledging "We will be like Che."

In his homeland of Argentina, where high schools bear his name, numerous Che museums dot the country, which in 2008 unveiled a 12-foot (3.7 m) bronze statue of him in the city of his birth, Rosario.

 Che remains both a revered and reviled historical figure