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Name: Che   Guevara

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About Me: Ernesto "Che" Guevara, June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967, commonly known as El Che or simply
Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader,
diplomat and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has
become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia within popular
culture.6] As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout Latin America and was
radically transformed by the endemic poverty and alienation he witnessed. His experiences and
observations during these trips led him to conclude that the region's ingrained economic
inequalities were an intrinsic result of capitalism, monopolism, neocolonialism, and
imperialism, with the only remedy being world revolution. This belief prompted his involvement
in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Arbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted
overthrow solidified Guevara's political ideology. Later, while living in Mexico City, he met
Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the
yacht, Granma, with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second-in-command, and
played a pivotal role in the victorious two year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista
regime. Following the Cuban Revolution, Guevara performed a number of key roles in the new
government. These included reviewing the appeals and firing squads for those convicted as war
criminals during the revolutionary tribunals, instituting agrarian reform as minister of
industries, helping spearhead a successful nationwide literacy campaign, serving as both
national bank president and instructional director for Cuba’s armed forces, and traversing
the globe as a diplomat on behalf of Cuban socialism. Such positions also allowed him to play a
central role in training the militia forces who repelled the Bay of Pigs Invasion and bringing
to Cuba the Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles which precipitated the 1962 Cuban Missile
Crisis.[13] Additionally, he was a prolific writer and diarist, composing a seminal manual on
guerrilla warfare, along with a best-selling memoir about his youthful motorcycle journey
across South America. Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to foment revolution abroad, first
unsuccessfully in Congo-Kinshasa and later in Bolivia, where he was captured by CIA-assisted
Bolivian forces and executed. (Wikipedia) Guevara remains both a revered and reviled
historical figure, polarized in the collective imagination in a multitude of biographies,
memoirs, essays, documentaries, songs, and films. As a result of his perceived martyrdom,
poetic invocations for class struggle, and desire to create the consciousness of a "new man"
driven by moral rather than material incentives; he has evolved into a quintessential icon of
various leftist-inspired movements. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential
people of the 20th century,[15] while an Alberto Korda photograph of him entitled Guerrillero
Heroico (shown), was declared "the most famous photograph in the world."[16]