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Che Guevara: Ernesto Che Guevara
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Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna... known as Che Guevara, was born in Rosario, Argentina on May 14, 1928. In 1948 Guevara entered the University of Buenos Aires to study medicine. Guevara was a member of Fidel Castro's "26th of July Movement", which took control of Cuba in 1959. Guevara was assigned to oversee executions at the La Cabana prison. It is believed that from 1959 to 1963, approximately 500 men were killed under his watch. Guevara left Cuba in 1966 with the intention of fostering revolutions throughout Latin America and Africa.
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Ernesto "Che" Guevara was a Latin American revolutionary and guerilla war theorist. Born in Argentina, and trained as a medical doctor he became politically active during Peron's dicatorship of that country. In 1953 he went to Guatemala to serve in Jacobo Arbenz Guzman's short-lived reign. After Guzman's overthrow in 1954, Che met Fidel Castro and in 1956 he served in Castro's army providing important strategic leadership up until the taking of Havana by Castro's forces on New Year's day, 1959. After the communist takeover of Cuba, Che served in several capacities, including that of Minister of Industry (1961-1965).
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Ernesto "Che" Guevara had all the characteristics of a ruthless dictator and opponent of freedom. He believed that the end justifies the means, and he fanatically adhered to this gospel. This "idealized icon" is the one who, as a modern day Grand Inquisitor, eliminated many of his foes with a single pistol shot to the back of their heads. And he is ... the same one who authored these enhancing words printed in the identity booklets of young Cuban soldiers sent to fight in Angola: "Blind hate against the enemy creates a forceful impulse that cracks the boundaries of natural human limitations, transforming the soldier in an effective, selective and cold killing machine. A people without hate cannot triumph against the adversary." More
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In an era when it was common practice to label those with anti-American ideas as a Communist, Ernesto Che Guevara persisted with his desire to liberate the Latin American continent through armed struggle. Whilst aspects of Che's ideology and motivation can be likened to aspects of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels', Manifesto of the Communist Party1, there are three main factors that had an obvious and significant influence upon the way Che viewed the society in which he lived. The first formative influence was Che's family and upbringing. This was followed by his experiences during his travels of Latin America, particularly the events in Guatemala, and these led to the formation of his theories of social justice, which were influenced by the philosopher Alfred Adler.
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Thirty nine years ago this week Ernesto "Che" Guevara got a major dose of his own medicine. Without trial he was declared a murderer, stood against a wall and shot. Historically speaking, justice has rarely been better served. If the saying, "what goes around comes around" ever fit, it's here. The number of men Che's "revolutionary tribunals" condemned to death in the identical manner range from 400 to 1892. The number of defenseless men (and boys) Che personally murdered with his own pistol runs to the dozens.
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Ernesto "Che" Guevara was born in Rosario, Argentina on May 14, 1928. The Guevara family was considered middle class even though they did not have too much money. Most of the money that they possessed was passed down to them by their parents and other relatives. Che's father had lost a large amount of the inheritance through failed businesses in which he became involved including a ship factory that was later destroyed by fire, and a farm that grew yerba mate, which never succeeded financially.
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