peru_anny
30th April 2006, 17:00
Hi there, I'm writing a grade 12 essay for a social science course I'm in. I was wondering if the experts on this site who know much more than me as I am simply researching him will help me see if i have made any mistakes. I would appreciate it incredibly id anyone would give me any feedback. This is simply my intoduction and my first argument.
The Man behind the Image
He gazes out onto the horizon with his piercing eyes and a heroic pose that will be looked at by millions of people and known as a renowned symbol of rebellion. This image of the great Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara has been painted and reproduced all over the world in order to spread the image and the words of this great Argentinean revolutionary. The black beret, the burning eyes and the naturally serious face, his eyes are set on the horizon as if wondering what lies in front of him. This picture taken by Alberto Korda during a funeral service in 1960 has become a world-renowned symbol that is as easily recognized as symbols such as McDonalds or Coca-Cola. Even though this image has been overused, the morals and ideals of Che Guevara will remain like the legend that he is. Even though the initial guerrilla tactics used by Che Guevara have been deemed as a failure, his overall genuine purpose of his revolution can be recognized today as a successful fight against oppression.
What made Che Guevara the great revolutionary he was is a question that is asked by many of his followers. In order to effectively understand the person he was it is essential to research where he came from and the images of poverty which made him realize that in order to carry out social change the answer laid through guerrilla warfare. Also the revolutions Che Guevara was part of and more specifically the revolution in Cuba were seen as successful after they occurred but the present state of Cuba states otherwise. Che Guevara wanted a revolution that was best for the people, but after his death Cuba became a dictatorship, where people still live with a poor quality of life. Ernesto Guevara de La Serna wasn’t sufficed with the idea of a revolution simply in Cuba, he wanted to lead a continent wide revolt that would make sure South America began to stand out in politics and in the way it was viewed by the rest of the world. Ernesto Che Guevara has become a martyr and is followed by many different kinds of people who are usually called Che-bearers because they carry with them the classic image of Che Guevara on their chest. The symbol carried on their chest not ultimately but usually lies on top of a vague person who knows absolutely nothing of what he stood for and when they realize who he was they react with repulsiveness because they are told he was a communist. All in all, Che Guevara has become a symbol of revolution, he represents freedom and in the eyes of oppressed people he is the image of hope, a hope that someday they can unite and fight against the oppression which holds their generations in a standstill.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was born in Rosario, Argentina on May 14, 1928 . He was the first child of middle-class parents Ernesto Guevara Lynch and Celia de la Serna. During his childhood Che has access to an extensive library with authors like Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin. His father and mother influenced him incredibly to grow up with an open mind and in many ways they shaped his revolutionary ideals. His intensive book reading was well noticed by his friends, “He read with anxiety, devouring the library of his parents…from Freud to Jack London, mixed with Neruda, Horacio Quiroga, and Anatole France, even an abbreviated edition of Das Kapital in which he made observations in tiny letters. ” In result with his intensive reading, many of Ernesto’s friends said that for him everything began with literature. At first Ernesto Guevara was interested in studying to be an engineer, but soon changed his mind and entered into medicine. He finished his doctor’s degree in the lapse of 3 years rather than the normal 6 years.
As Che Guevara grew older his companionship with his best friend Alberto Granado drew them closer and they embarked on a journey to spend a year traveling the length of the South American continent. They began their journey on top of a vintage 500 cc Norton motorcycle named La Poderosa II (The Powerful II) , this would be their mode of transportation, it would be their friend but it would also let them down and they would have to continue their journey by foot. As Guevara writes in the first pages of his diary: “This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams. ” As Guevara states, the journey he put onto paper was not to show any form of hero in himself, its purpose was to show the journey he took and the things he experienced that shaped the ideals which eventually made him a revolutionary.
Their journey took them to the remote and poverty stricken places throughout Latin America. Che's first real journey took place during 1950 in which he travelled widely throughout Argentina. For the first time he witnessed the massive social divide which existed in his country. In Buenos Aires he had seen poverty before but for the first time he witnessed the other side of South America. He traveled through Chile, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela and throughout his travels he wrote The Motorcycle Diaries, which is a collection of his thoughts and experiences as he traveled the continent. In this diary it is evident how he reacted to the alienation and oppression the indigenous people faced daily. Ultimately his travels changed the direction of his entire life. All the while as Che traveled through Latin America, his writings show the carefree existence he carried with him as he got into trouble and lied to people because he needed shelter. However, while the main aspect of his diary is to show the ingenious trip he took, other experiences also had a big impact on him. The poverty he witnessed along with the differences in the classes he saw awakened and rapidly increased his social awareness. His writings show the anger he developed when he saw the indifference shown towards the poor by the ruling class.
A defining moment was put before him in the form of sick people who were in need of his help. This moment took place when Che was asked to help an elderly woman who was dying of chronic asthma. After leaving her his own asthma medicine he wrote in his diary: “There, in the final moments of people whose farthest horizon is always tomorrow, one sees the tragedy that enfolds the lives of the proletariat throughout the whole world; in those dying eyes there is a submissive apology and also frequently, a desperate plea for consolation that is lost in the void, just as their body will soon be lost in the magnitude of misery surrounding us .” Che Guevara had many encounters with people who impacted him greatly, these people varied from doctors in the leper colony he volunteered at, but just as the dying woman impacted his views, he met a former miner and his wife who were both members of the illegal Chilean Communist Party. This meeting on a cold night imbedded this couple in Ernesto’s mind forever. “The couple, numb with cold, huddling against each other in the desert night, were a living representation of the proletariat in any part of the world. It was one of the coldest times in my life, but also one which made me feel a little more brotherly toward this strange, for me at least, human species. ”
Further on his journey, he reached Peru where he would be exposed to more poverty and oppression. Here he would also realize the connection the people of Latin America had to one another. This became one of the basic principles that shaped his ideas of a continent wide revolt. Entering Peru he was instantly introduced to the harsh life the indigenous people lived day by day. As Ernesto and Granado arrived in the leper colony of San Pablo, the alienation and injustice would forever be imbedded in their minds. It was here that for the first time Che Guevara was public with his words. On his 24th birthday he made a toast to Peru:
Although our insignificance means we can’t be spokespeople for such a noble cause, we believe, and after this journey more firmly than ever, that the division of Latin America into unstable and illusory nations is completely fictional. We constitute a single mestizo race, which from Mexico to the Magellan Straits bears notable ethnographical similarities. And so, in an attempt to rid myself of the weight of small-minded provincialism, I propose a toast to Peru and to a United Latin America.
As his journey through South America ended in Caracas, Che had realized how much he had changed and he realized there were things worth fighting for. The impact of his first journey was clearly evident in his traveling notes. He was no longer the same man who left Argentina. “Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. I am not me any more. At least I'm not the same me I was. ”
Comrade Marcel
30th April 2006, 19:27
Also the revolutions Che Guevara was part of and more specifically the revolution in Cuba were seen as successful after they occurred but the present state of Cuba states otherwise. Che Guevara wanted a revolution that was best for the people, but after his death Cuba became a dictatorship, where people still live with a poor quality of life.
How exactly is this so? You know Che was a Leninist, right? He supported the idea of proletarian democratic dictatorship, as practiced by Stalin and Mao.
How is Cuba a failure now? What exactly are you comparing the quality of life in Cuba to, Mississauga or Brampton? If that's the case it's not a good, fair or scientific comparison, especially if you understand imperialism.
Are you comparing Cuba to Western countries? former-USSR; China? or other Latin American and/or Carribean countries? Have you ever even been to Cuba and/or other Latin American or Carribean countries?
Start with some research on Cuba:
This is a study group I compiled: Is Cuba Socialist? (http://individual.utoronto.ca/mrodden/study/cuba.htm)
then read about the Cuban Political and Electoral System (http://www.cubaminrex.cu/English/Focus_On/Cuban%20political%20and%20electoral%20system%20.ht m)
This is a decent article as well:
http://www.ratb.org.uk/html/electoralsystem.html
Also see:
Popular Myths Perpetuated by the Media about Cuba (http://free.hostultra.com/~mrodden/articles/oncuba.htm) and Disseminating the Cuban myths (http://free.hostultra.com/~mrodden/articles/04-18-04.html) (some important things to keep in mind whenever you read bourgeois media on Cuba)
The symbol carried on their chest not ultimately but usually lies on top of a vague person who knows absolutely nothing of what he stood for and when they realize who he was they react with repulsiveness because they are told he was a communist.
This is an important statement; you should add a bit more about how his image has been coopted.
Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin.
Very good, more on Che's politics and how Stalin always remained an important influence for him would be good...
...instantly introduced to the harsh life the indigenous people lived day by day....
...the alienation and injustice would forever be imbedded in their minds...
You repeat sentences like that a few too many times, why not describe exactly what they saw instead?
All in all, a good essay, but half way down it seems to become an essay about Motorcycle Diaries rather than about Che. Assuming the persyn reading it knows nothing about Che, what happened after his motorcycle journey? They have no idea if he was still alive or dead, etc. You talked nothing at all about his revolutionary activities... and an essay about Che without even mentioning Fidel?!? How did they meet, how did they win the revolution? How did Che eventually die? What happened to his body? etc. etc.
Also, give it a check as there is a few minor errors here and there.
Good luck.
peru_anny
3rd May 2006, 04:52
I hope I receive a decent mark for this paper because it took me quite some time to get it done. Thank you very much Comrade Marcel. here is the finished copy and i used the articles you told me to read and they really helped out with the rest of my arguments.
He gazes out onto the horizon with his piercing eyes and a heroic pose that will be looked at by millions of people as a renowned symbol of rebellion. This image of the great Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara has been painted and reproduced all over the world in order to spread the image and the words of this great Argentinean revolutionary. The black beret, the burning eyes and the naturally serious face, his eyes are set on the horizon as if wondering what lies in front of him. There is no doubt that his image has been overused but the morals and ideals of Che Guevara will remain like the legend that he is. Even though the initial guerrilla tactics used by Che Guevara have been deemed as a failure, his overall genuine purpose of his revolution can be recognized today as a successful fight against oppression.
In order to effectively understand the person he was it is essential to research where he came from and the images of poverty, which made him realize that in order to carry out social change the answer was through guerrilla warfare. The Cuban Revolution of which Che was part of became a success it would put him on the map as a legend and as someone who fought against Yankee imperialists. The media has a big part in myths that are shown to the western world about Cuba, these myths are usually speculated simply because of the hatred that has been created towards Cuba. Ernesto Guevara de La Serna wasn’t satisfied with the idea of a revolution simply in Cuba, he wanted to lead a continent wide revolt that would make sure South America began to stand out in politics and in the way it was viewed by the rest of the world. Ernesto Che Guevara has become a martyr and is followed by many different kinds of people who are usually called Che-bearers because they carry with them the classic image of Che Guevara on their chest. The symbol carried on their chest not ultimately but usually lies on top of a vague person who knows nothing of what he stood for and when they realize who he was they react with repulsiveness because they are told he was a communist. Which couldn’t be more wrong, Ernesto Che Guevara was actually a Leninist. All in all, Che Guevara has become a symbol of revolution, he represents freedom and in the eyes of oppressed people he is the image of hope, a hope that someday they can unite and fight against the oppression which holds their generations in a standstill.
There is a need for terms that were used by Ernesto Che Guevara in many of his writings to be thoroughly explained because they not only influenced him but also the people he spoke to and taught. The term Yankee imperialists represented any type of American influence in Latin America. Yankee in Argentina was a term simply used to as another word for a white person just like the word ‘gringo’ is used. Adding the word imperialist to the word represented a form of oppression that was put against people in Latin America. European or American foreigners would come to Latin America and set up factories and in a way they enslaved people to work for them or their took away the land of the indigenous people. The term INRA stands for the National Institute of Agrarian reform, this reform group was very influential in Cuba because they carried out the largest land reform that had even been seen.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was born in Rosario, Argentina on May 14, 1928 . He was the first child of middle-class parents Ernesto Guevara Lynch and Celia de la Serna. During his childhood Che has access to an extensive library with authors like Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin. His father and mother influenced him incredibly to grow up with an open mind and in many ways they shaped his revolutionary ideals. His intensive book reading was well noticed by his friends, “He read with anxiety, devouring the library of his parents…from Freud to Jack London, mixed with Neruda, and even an abbreviated edition of Das Kapital in which he made observations in tiny letters.” In result with his intensive reading, many of Ernesto’s friends said that for him everything began with literature. At first Ernesto Guevara was interested in studying to be an engineer, but soon changed his mind and entered into medicine. He finished his doctor’s degree in the lapse of 3 years rather than the normal 6 years.
As Che Guevara grew older, his companionship with his best friend Alberto Granado drew them closer and they decided to embark on a journey to spend a year traveling the length of the South American continent. They began their journey on top of a vintage 500 cc Norton motorcycle named La Poderosa II (The Powerful II) , this would be their mode of transportation but they would soon have to leave it behind and continue their journey by foot. As Guevara writes in the first pages of his diary: “This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.” As Guevara states, the journey he put onto paper was not to show any form of hero in himself, its purpose was to show the journey he took and the things he experienced that shaped the ideals which eventually made him a successful revolutionary.
Their journey took them to the remote and poverty stricken places throughout Latin America. Che's first real journey took place during 1950 in which he travelled widely throughout Argentina. For the first time he witnessed the massive social divide which existed in his country. In Buenos Aires he had seen poverty before but for the first time he witnessed the other side of South America. He traveled through Chile, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela and throughout his travels he wrote The Motorcycle Diaries, which is a collection of his thoughts and experiences. In this diary his reaction is clearly evident on the alienation and oppression the indigenous people faced daily. It is very important to describe exactly what kind of poverty Guevara witnessed. Travelling though the Andes Mountains he began to meet people who were impacted greatly by Yankee imperialists who had in some way or other caused them to suffer and go hungry for days on end. He met farmers who’s lands were taken away and he not only listened to them but he learned about their community and how they worked their lands together and created union-like groups. During his journey there would be no way that Guevara could not change and learn from the poverty he had witnessed. After seeing poverty, disease and deprivation through your own eyes you will grow up with a certain mindset, you begin to see the inequality and injustice of the oppression that is being put against your own people. Ultimately his travels changed the direction of his entire life. However, while the main aspect of his diary is to show the ingenious trip he took, other experiences also had a big impact on him. As he walked and hitchhiked and witnessed the differences in the classes his social awareness rapidly increased. His writings show the anger he developed when he saw the indifference shown towards the poor by the ruling class.
A defining experience was put before him in the form of sick people who were in need of his help. This moment took place when Che was asked to help an elderly woman who was dying of chronic asthma. After leaving the old woman his own asthma medicine he wrote in his diary:
There, in the final moments of people whose farthest horizon is always tomorrow, one sees the tragedy that enfolds the lives of the proletariat throughout the whole world; in those dying eyes there is a submissive apology and also frequently, a desperate plea for consolation that is lost in the void, just as their body will soon be lost in the magnitude of misery surrounding us.
Also while traveling through Chile, he met a former miner and his wife who were both members of the illegal Chilean Communist Party.
The couple, numb with cold, huddling against each other in the desert night, were a living representation of the proletariat in any part of the world. It was one of the coldest times in my life, but also one which made me feel a little more brotherly toward this strange, for me at least, human species.
This would be one of the very important encounters that shaped his future goals. Further on his journey, he reached Peru where he would realize the connection the people of Latin America had to one another. This became one of the basic principles that shaped his ideas of a continent wide revolt. Entering Peru he was instantly introduced to the harsh life the indigenous people lived day by day. As the two friend made their way to the navel of the world (Cuzco), they saw women vendors who cared fro their children in the cold mountains. They worked everyday while carrying their babies on their backs; the children’s faces were burned red because of the harsh with of the Sierra. Their journey towards Machu Picchu also gave them a sense of connection to a world they never knew. As Ernesto and Granado arrived in the leper colony of San Pablo, the alienation and injustice would forever be imbedded in their minds. It was here that for the first time Che Guevara was public with his words. On his 24th birthday he made a toast to Peru:
Although our insignificance means we can’t be spokespeople for such a noble cause, we believe, and after this journey more firmly than ever, that the division of Latin America into unstable and illusory nations is completely fictional. We constitute a single mestizo race, which from Mexico to the Magellan Straits bears notable ethnographical similarities. And so, in an attempt to rid myself of the weight of small-minded provincialism, I propose a toast to Peru and to a United Latin America.
As his journey through South America ended in Caracas, Che had realized how much he had changed and he realized there were things worth fighting for. The impact of his journey was clearly evident in his traveling notes. He was no longer the same man who left Argentina. “Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. I am not me any more. At least I'm not the same me I was.”
After Guevara had come back to Argentina to graduate he was eager to get on the road again but this time to travel through Central America. After further traveling he ended up in Guatemala where the newly elected president Jacobo Arbenz was creating a land reform. He planned to redistribute unused land to the poor farmers in the country who made up the mass population. The U.S. based United Fruit Company was strongly against this plan, since the United Fruit Company had strong ties with the United States government they lobbied the CIA and the Eisenhower administration to take action. The CIA indeed took action and in 1954 President Arbenz was forced to flee. Guevara was one of Arbenz’ many foreign followers and he was told to leave the country for fear of safety. It was here in Guatemala that Guevara realized that the United States was an imperialistic power and it would always be there to oppose any type of reform. Guevara fled to Mexico and it was here that he met Fidel Castro who was in exile from Cuba. They immediately hit it off and Che agreed to join their planned expedition to over throw the U.S sponsored dictator Fulgencio Batista . They arrived in Cuba on the 2nd of December in 1956, immediately the Batista army met them. It was during his first battle that Che Guevara made a very important decision.
Perhaps this was the first time I was confronted with the real-life dilemma of having to choose between my devotion to medicine and my duty as a revolutionary soldier. Lying at my feet were a knapsack full of medicine and a box of ammunition. They were too heavy for me to carry both of them. I grabbed the box of ammunition, leaving the medicine behind.
As they succeeded in the revolution, Guevara quickly climbed the ranks and he became Comandante (Major). As they moved into the rugged Sierra Maestra Mountains, they gained the support of poor farmers; their numbers increasingly grew as the Rebel Army continued to carry out successful attacks against he Batista Regiment. Now the time was set to put in a Revolutionary government, while Che became an official of the INRA, which carried out one of the most extensive land reforms ever to be seen. Large plantations were taken away from big businesses, which were usually U.S owned, and they were given to small farmers. A reform was also put forth in the form of lowering rents; no renter would have to pay more than 10% on housing. Soon after this reform Che Guevara became the President of the National Bank of Cuba , this post was important because the goal of transforming Cuba’s colonial capitalist economy into a socialist industrial economy lay in Guevara’s hands. The U.S. government quickly became angry after the revolution and they cut back the amount of sugar they purchased from Cuba. This would eventually lead to a full economic embargo, which still continues to this day. Che played a major part in bringing Cuba together, he became a representative of Cuba and travelled to other socialist nations and created trade agreements with the Soviet Union in 1960. Throughout the new Cuba which was created Che Guevara became well known because of his simple lifestyle, he volunteered in camps cutting sugarcane and working in textile factories. This made him a man that people looked up to, he not only led the revolution along with Fidel but he didn’t see himself better than anyone else. He was still focused in fighting for the people and backing up his ideas. During this time one of Guevara’s most famous articles were published. He called for support of the heroic Vietnamese people who fought against U.S. imperialist invaders, and urged people around the world to create “one, two, many Vietnams.” Messages like these and speeches he delivered at the United Nations created a wide hatred for Ernesto Che Guevara coming from the United States that would later be turned into bloodshed. Even though Che Guevara went on to create other revolutions in the Congo and in Bolivia, it was evident that the Cuban revolutionary methods were not meant to be exported, for it developed from particular circumstances: the success of Castro and Guevara made for an inspiring legend, but it proved a bad base for future revolutions.
Historians and economics say that since the revolution the Cuban economy has become weaker, yet there is not proof. Comparing the GDP to other 3rd world countries like Haiti would show that Cuba has the lowest GDP even below Haiti – but if anyone has ever actually visited there two countries and compared them, they would be able to tell that Haitians are far worse of than Cubans when it comes to living conditions. There are certain myths that the west has been shown by the media when it comes to talking about how Cuba actually functions. In Cuba wealth is much more equally distributed than in other places, and goes toward things like health care, housing, and education. After the revolution had taken place and Che Guevara attempted to spread a revolt, he ventured into Bolivia where he would be captured and brutally killed by the Bolivian Special Forces who were backed by the CIA. On October 8th, the Cuban Guerilla’s encampment was encircled and a shoot out took place. The great Che Guevara refused to surrender and was captured only after being shot in both knees. The morning after his capture a sergeant in the Bolivian army murdered him while Guevara’s hands were tied to a board. Right before Che was executed he said his last words: “I know you are here to kill me. Shoot coward! You are only going to kill a man.” His last words have become well known and they show that even to the point of his death, he fought with all he had left which were his words.
The controversy quickly fired up as many rumours were going around that Fidel could have done more to back up Guevara in Bolivia. All the controversy began when Guevara’s killer CIA agent Felix Rodriguez claimed that Che seemed to him “bitter over the Cuban dictator's lack of support for the Bolivian incursion....” This evidently isn’t a credible source because as if Che would ever tell his captors any information, and if he ever did why wouldn’t he have written about any problems he was having with Fidel in his private diaries. The guerilla effort was betrayed - by the leadership of the Bolivian Communist Party, and especially by its principal leader Mario Monje. They promised support and withdrew it at the last moment. Che describes this in detail in his Bolivian Diary.
The Cuban Revolution made Guevara the revolutionary martyr he quickly became; his images are painted on walls all over Cuba. To this day children in Cuba repeat the words ‘We will be like Che’ every morning as if it was an anthem. After having led a successful revolution in Cuba, he went onto other attempts but once he was captured his fight was over. His memory and ideals live on through the image that is world-renowned.
The photograph taken of Che Guevara by Alberto Korda on March 4th, 1960 at a Cuban funeral service has become “the most famous photograph in the world and a symbol of the 20th century”. Ever since his death Che has achieved mythical status; his image is used to T-Shirts, posters, key rings and even advertising campaigns for Smirnoff vodka. What is it that makes Che so appealing, some may say his looks, others may say its because he fought for the oppressed, but others can also have no idea who he was or what he stood for. People who see him as a fashion symbol have turned Che into a pop culture phenomenon. In a way the overuse of Che’s image profits the message Guevara sends across. There is usually a 50 – 50 chance that when a teenager sees Che on another person he will either think that it’s the cool things to do or he will try to find out who he was first. In many cases though there are certain people who simply wear Che merchandise because they believe it makes them unique because they stand out from the rest. This can be correct in some ways because they are being different, they are being ignorant, and they are being followers of trends without having the mindset to back it up. If there are capitalist companies making those t-shirts what is the point of wearing them and saying that you are a Che follower, you are obviously going against everything the great Che Guevara stood up and fought against. All of this controversy has also led to anti-communism. Recently there have been t-shirts being sold with the image of Che but at the bottom in big letter states ‘this t-shirt brought to you by capitalism.’
Ultimately, the message behind the man is much more important than the popularity he has received by youngsters all over the world. In addition, who is to know that if Che rose from the grave he would be disgusted by the millions of people wearing his t-shirt, or he may simply think that he’s lucky that at least Korda took a good picture of him and not one after he’d been fighting in the jungle for weeks on end.
According to the questionnaire conducted at Mount Carmel Secondary School, 30% of the students knew who the man behind the image was . It was usually the senior students who know who he was. This could be simply because they have been exposed to courses like World History or other Social Science course which teaches them about world issues. The survey also concluded that most images of Che Guevara are seen though the infamous T-shirt that people wear. Even though 30% of students said they knew who he was when they were given options to see who exactly he was, most students had no idea who he was. 50% of the students thought he was a terrorist. This can be because of the images that people are bombarded with about people who stand up to fight for freedom. In conclusion, the ISU survey , which was conducted, proved most of the arguments about the over usage of Che Guevara’s image.
Che Guevara is undoubtedly a very important figure in Latin American history; his overall fight against oppression is looked at as a fight for freedom and it is labeled as a success. People all over the world admire him because of the simple fact that he was able to stand up to imperialistic powers. His spirit of self-sacrifice makes him an unforgettable icon that illustrated his choice to reject a comfortable life and instead he chose to fight for the world’s poor. His travels along with experience in the Cuban Revolution made him a icon who is looked up to and followed by the people who have hope that someday they can be strong enough to fight like Che. His image not only carries a powerful message but also a past that will never be forgotten. Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara was one of the most important and most dedicated revolutionaries to set foot on this earth. Even after his death, the struggle continues, the oppressed people of the world will continue to fight for freedom, injustice and equality through revolutions. As Che said, “Hasta la Victoria, siempre!” [Always, until the victory!]
Selected References
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Hoberman, J. “Ernesto Goes to the Movies”. The American Prospect. October 1st, 2004. p. 37
Ernesto, Guevara. Guerrilla Warfare. Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1998
Petras, James. (1997). “Latin America: thirty years after Che (Assessment of the influence of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara).” The Monthly Review. October 1st, 1997. p.8
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Dorfman, Ariel. “TIME 100: The Guerrilla Che Guevara.” Time Magazine, June 14, 1999. p. 25
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Guevara, Ernesto. Message to the Tricontinental: Create two, three…many Vietnams Executive Secretariat of the Organization of the Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAAL), Havana, April 16, 1967.) See entire article in Appendix 1.3
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Cantor, Jay. The Death of Che Guevara. Chicago: Vintage Press, 2005.
Piniero, M.; Suarez, L. Che Guevara and the Latin American Revolution. New York: Ocean Press, 2006.
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Faulkner, Mike. “Cuba and the United States: a personal reflection on thirty-five years of conflict.” Monthly Review, February 1st, 1996. p.31
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