Ernesto Che Guevara

Che was born in Rosario, Argentina on Mary 14, 1928 to Celia and Ernesto Guevara Lynch. At the age of two, he developed asthmatic bronchitis, so the family did not return to their Misiones plantation because of the dampness. The family eventually settled in Cordoba province in Alta Gracia. Che was schooled by his mother until the age of nine. At fourteen, he began high school in Cordoba. He graduated in 1946 and began to work as a soils specialist one hundred fifty miles away in Villa Maria. He quit the job and moved to Buenos Aires to be with his dying grandmother and attend medical school at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Buenos Aires. Ernesto was an avid traveler when he had time off from school and as soon as he graduated, he traveled around South and Central America. He eventually went to Guatemala after...