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Ernesto Che
Guevara was born in Rosario in Argentine in 1928. He worked as a doctor after
studying medicine. In 1954 he witnessed
the socialist government of president
Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala. He joined the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro in
Mexico.
In 1956
Guevara, Castro and other people came in Cuba in an attempt to overthrow the
government of General Fulgencio Batista.
A
great traveler, he traveled throughout Latin
America, aware of poverty and
social injustice that prevailed. Abandoning a promising
career as a doctor, he decided in 1954 to unite the
movement led by Fidel Castro's Cuba, convinced that revolution was the only way to restore the rights of the Latin peoples.
The ousted dictator
Fulgencio Batista, Che was appointed
minister of industry to Cuba, a role he held from 1961 to 1965. But soon he refused to ally with the orthodox communism and went to continue the revolution. He went to Congo and then in Argentina, trying to destabilize governments.
In Bolivia, he led farmers and miners, struggling against the military in power. Hunted, he was finally killed in 1967. His short life and upsetting gave birth to the legend of Che, whose ideals are still alive today.
