Ernesto "Che" Guevara ( May 14 , 1928 – October 9 , 1967 ), commonly known as Che Guevara , El Che , or simply Che , was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, politician, author, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader. Described as "Fidel...
Ernesto Guevara (1928-1967) was an Argentinian revolutionary, guerrilla theoretician, and the trusted adviser of Cuban premier Fidel Castro. Ernesto Guevara was born on June 14, 1928, in Rosario. Of Spanish and Irish descent, he suffered from asthma,...
Ernesto “Ché” Guevara Born June 14, 1928 Rosario, Argentina Died October 9, 1967 La Higuera, Bolivia Cuban revolutionary and medical doctor Ernesto “Ché” Guevara was born into a middle-class Argentinian family and...
As a young man studying medicine, Guevara travelled rough throughout South America, bringing him into direct contact with the impoverished conditions in which many people lived. His experiences and observations during these trips led him to the...
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Che Guevara. 05/17/1997: 700 words, approx. 2 pages
CHE GUEVARA. By Jon Lee Anderson. Grove Atlantic Press; 832 pages; $35. Bantam; K25 REVOLUTION, or sudden change at least, came easily and often to Ernesto "Che" Guevara. He was an asthmatic doctor who preferred travel to medicine, finding his social conscience as...
Remembering Che The first time I went to Latin America, in the mid-1970s, I hitched a ride at one point on a Peruvian lumber truck. Each of its mud flaps carried a stenciled version of Alberto Korda's famous portrait of Che Guevara, "the...
Fidel Castro paid homage to Ernesto "Che" Guevara as an "exceptional combatant" while many of the Argentine guerrilla's relatives and former comrades gathered in central Cuba Monday to mark the 40th anniversary of his capture and killing in Bolivia.Castro, who has not been seen in...
A former CIA operative and Cuban exile plans to auction what he says is a lock of Che Guevara's hair, snipped before the Argentinian revolutionary and friend of Fidel Castro was buried in 1967.Gustavo Villoldo, 71, was involved in Guevara's capture in the jungles of...
Born in New Zealand, Minogue is an educator and critic who writes and lectures on issues related to political science. In the following excerpt, he articulates the principal tenets of Guevara's "concrete and practical" Marxism.
A leader of the Cuban Revolution and the current prime minister of Cuba, Castro considered Guevara an outstanding revolutionary leader and intellectual mentor. In the following essay, originally delivered as a speech at a memorial rally for Guevara in Havana's Plaza of the Revolution on October 18, 1967, Castro eulogizes Guevara's literary, military, and political achievements, noting "Che possessed the double characteristic of the man of ideas—of profound ideas—and the m...
Lockwood is a photojournalist, editor, and author of a book about Fidel Castro and Cuba. In the following review, in which he offers a highly favorable assessment of Guevara's Bolivia diary, Lockwood praises Guevara's writing style and comments on several events in the Bolivian campaign.
