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Ernesto "Che" Guevara [b] (14 June 1928 [a] – 9 October 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, 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 in popular culture .
"Che Guevara - hero of the Cuban Revolution, left-wing icon and the face that has sold more posters than anyone else in history. Remembered as a romantic freedom fighter , an expert in guerrilla warfare , and a thoughtful philosopher who died young for his cause, Guevara has always been the revolutionaries' revolutionary.
Che is a two-part 2008 epic biographical film about the Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, directed by Steven Soderbergh.Rather than follow a standard chronological order, the films offer an oblique series of interspersed moments along the overall timeline.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara smoking a cigar in Havana, Cuba, 1963.. Guevarism is a theory of communist revolution and a military strategy of guerrilla warfare associated with Marxist–Leninist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, a leading figure of the Cuban Revolution who believed in the idea of Marxism–Leninism and embraced its principles.
Che Guevara Reader: Writings by Ernesto Che Guevara on Guerrilla Strategy, Politics & Revolution, edited by David Deutschmann, Ocean Press (AU), 1997, ISBN 1-875284-93-1; Che: Selected Works of Ernesto Guevara, edited with an introduction by Rolando E. Bonachea and Nelson P. Valdes, MIT Press, 1969, ISBN 0-262-02053-X
The Library Journal By an old widow of Cuba states, "reflects the life of an extraordinary and important man". [1] While Colm Toibin in a review for The Observer remarks that "for anyone interested in the myth of Che Guevara, and in the idea that a small group of determined men can take over a country, this book is essential reading."
No longer was he Che Guevara the guerrilla insurgent, but he was now viewed as a "Saint" by locals who had come to refer to him as "San Ernesto de La Higuera" (Saint Ernesto of La Higuera). [146] Accompanying his "Sainthood" came prayers for favors and legends of his ghost still walking the area. [ 146 ]
The Route of Che (la ruta del Che) is the term used to refer to the route followed by the Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara and his men in the region of Ñancahuazú, Bolivia in 1966 and 1967. [1] [2] [3] This ended with his execution at La Higuera on 9 October 1967, followed by exposure of his body and burial in an unmarked grave in ...