Che Guevara Biography

Che Guevara, Revolutionary
Occup.Revolutionary
FromArgentina
BornJune 14, 1928
DiedOctober 9, 1967
Aged39 years
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (birthed in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina) frequently called "el Che" or merely "Che" was a Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leader, later on a participant of the leading echelon of the Cuban Communist program.

In studies, he was little politically energetic, but still participated in trainee presentations against President Juan Perón. In 1951, while he was still studying medication, took a trip the 23-year-old Guevara and his 29-year-old buddy, Alberto Granado, through parts of South America, a journey that took a number of months as well as formed his political views. It brought middle-class boy Guevara in close call with poverty, exploitation as well as oppression that the vast bulk of the populace - ranch workers, indigenous individuals, employees and also bad farmers - was subjected, and which still defines several nations in Latin America.

The experiences of the trip convinced him that only a revolutionary upheaval can remove the economic differences and also produce social justice. With this sentence, he began to read Marxist literary works and participate in the Guatemalan change under President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán.

Later he became a member of Fidel Castro's 26th July-motion. He was appointed by Castro to the commander, the one beside the Castro to have this placement. In this capability he revealed terrific cruelty and shot as well as killed a number of times, even participants of his very own motion for failure to "self-control". After Castro came to power in Cuba in 1959, Guevara was in charge of the implementations of opponents of the routine, and also was later assigned priest of sector and head of the National Bank. Guevara was the engineer of the Cuban Communist regimen's close partnership with the Soviet Union, and also it was Guevara who had Soviet nuclear tools pointed in Cuba and focused on the United States, which led to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. In 1965 he left Cuba, to participate in revolutions in other parts of the globe. We drove initially to the Congo-Kinshasa (later the Democratic Republic of Congo) and then to Bolivia where he was recorded in a CIA-led procedure in conjunction with the Bolivian army.

While Che Guevara was in captivity in the village of La Higuera, Bolivia, he was 9 October 1967 performed by Mario Teran, a Bolivian police officer.

Our collection contains 7 quotes who is written / told by Che.

Related authors: Gael Garcia Bernal (Actor), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete), Fidel Castro (Statesman)

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7 Famous quotes by Che Guevara

Small: I dont care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting
"I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting"
Small: Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear
"Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms"
Small: The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall"
Small: Silence is argument carried out by other means
"Silence is argument carried out by other means"
Small: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks h
"Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes"
Small: I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man
"I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man"
Small: Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel
"Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel"