Ernesto ‘ Che ’ Guevara
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ERNESTO ‘CHE’ GUEVARA A B IOGR APHY
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Ernesto ‘ Che ’ Guevara. A Biography. El ‘ Che ”. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, known as Che Guevara, was born on 14 June 1928 in Rosario, Argentina into a middle-class family. He studied medicine at Buenos Aires University and during this time travelled widely in South and Central America . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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ERNESTO ‘C
HE’ GUEVA
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A BI O
G R A P H Y
EL ‘CHE”• Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, known as Che
Guevara, was born on 14 June 1928 in Rosario, Argentina into a middle-class family.
• He studied medicine at Buenos Aires University and during this time travelled widely in South and Central America.
• The widespread poverty and oppression he witnessed, fused with his interest in Marxism, convinced him that the only solution to South and Central America's problems was armed revolution.
EL ‘CHE’• In 1954 he went to Mexico and the following
year he met Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.
• Guevara joined Castro's '26th July Movement' and played a key role in the eventual success of its guerrilla war against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
EL ‘CHE”• Castro overthrew Batista in 1959 and took
power in Cuba.• From 1959-1961, Guevara was president of the
National Bank of Cuba, and then minister of industry. In this position, he travelled the world as an ambassador for Cuba.
• At home, he carried out plans for land redistribution and the nationalisation of industry
EL ‘CHE’• A strong opponent of the United States, he guided the
Castro regime towards alignment with the Soviet Union. The Cuban economy faltered as a result of American trade sanctions and unsuccessful reforms.
• During this difficult time Guevara began to fall out with the other Cuban leaders.
• He later expressed his desire to spread revolution in other parts of the developing world, and in 1965 Castro announced that Guevara had left Cuba.
EL ‘CHE’• Guevara then spent several months in Africa, particularly
the Congo, attempting to train rebel forces in guerrilla warfare.
• His efforts failed and in 1966 he secretly returned to Cuba. • From Cuba he travelled to Bolivia to lead forces rebelling
against the government of René Barrientos Ortuño.
EL ‘CHE’• With US assistance, the Bolivian army captured
Guevara and his remaining fighters. • He was executed on 9 October 1967 in the
Bolivian village of La Higuera and his body was buried in a secret location.
• In 1997 his remains were discovered, exhumed and returned to Cuba, where he was reburied.
