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Aleida March was an active combatant in Che Guevara's Lightning Campaign in December 1958. She was present at the battle for Las Villas in which Column 8 of the 26th of July Movement was ordered by Fidel Castro to paralyze the occupying military forces of President Fulgencio Batista in the province.
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.
Aleida Guevara March [a] (born 24 November 1960) is a Cuban physician who is the eldest of four children born to Ernesto "Che" Guevara and his second wife, Aleida March. She is a doctor based at the William Soler Children's Hospital in Havana. She has also worked as a physician in Angola, Ecuador, and Nicaragua.
Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara, by Aleida March, Ocean Press, 2012, ISBN 0-9870779-3-7 - English language edition translated by Pilar Aguilar, Seven Stories Press, 2024 ISBN 9781644212059; Young Che: Memories of Che Guevara by His Father, by Ernesto Guevara Lynch, Vintage Books, 2008, ISBN 0-307-39044-6
On March 4, 1960, the French freighter La Coubre exploded in Havana Harbor, killing up to 100 people and injuring several hundred more. [11] Upon hearing the blast, Guevara rushed to the harbor to board the burning ship, angrily forcing his way past those concerned for his safety following a secondary explosion. [11]
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.
The Marxism of Che Guevara: Philosophy, Economics, and Revolutionary Warfare (French: La pensée de Che Guevara) is a 1970 book by Michael Löwy. It is a short work addressing the political, ethical and economic components of Ernesto Guevara's thinking. The English translation by Brian Pearce was published by Monthly Review Press in 1973.
At a ceremony the following year marking the 40th anniversary of his execution, Morales declared "the ideals and actions of Commander Ernesto Guevara are examples for those who defend equality and justice. We are humanists and followers of the example of Guevara." [131] President of Argentina, Cristina Kirchner, holding a poster of Guevara. She ...