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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;spirityoda, post: 6259249, member: 44633&quot;][ATTACH=full]1247879[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Ernesto</b> &quot;<b>Che</b>&quot; <b>Guevara</b> (Spanish: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Spanish" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Spanish" rel="nofollow">[ˈtʃe ɣeˈβaɾa]</a>;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> 14 June 1928<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-birthdate-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-birthdate-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a> – 9 October 1967) was an Argentine <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist" rel="nofollow">Marxist</a> revolutionary, physician, author, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_warfare" rel="nofollow">guerrilla</a> leader, diplomat, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_theorist" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_theorist" rel="nofollow">military theorist</a>. A major figure of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution" rel="nofollow">Cuban Revolution</a>, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s" rel="nofollow">countercultural</a> symbol of rebellion and global insignia <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara_in_popular_culture" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara_in_popular_culture" rel="nofollow">in popular culture</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_America" rel="nofollow">South America</a> and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-RevMedicine-5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-RevMedicine-5" rel="nofollow">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-6" rel="nofollow">[6]</a> His burgeoning desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States prompted his involvement in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala" rel="nofollow">Guatemala</a>&#039;s social reforms under President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobo_%C3%81rbenz" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobo_%C3%81rbenz" rel="nofollow">Jacobo Árbenz</a>, whose eventual <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" rel="nofollow">CIA-assisted overthrow</a> at the behest of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company" rel="nofollow">United Fruit Company</a> solidified Guevara&#039;s political ideology.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-RevMedicine-5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-RevMedicine-5" rel="nofollow">[5]</a> Later in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City" rel="nofollow">Mexico City</a>, Guevara met <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Castro" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Castro" rel="nofollow">Raúl</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro" rel="nofollow">Fidel Castro</a>, joined their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26th_of_July_Movement" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26th_of_July_Movement" rel="nofollow">26th of July Movement</a>, and sailed to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba" rel="nofollow">Cuba</a> aboard the yacht <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granma_(yacht)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granma_(yacht)" rel="nofollow">Granma</a></i>with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista" rel="nofollow">Fulgencio Batista</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-7" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-7" rel="nofollow">[7]</a> Guevara soon rose to prominence among the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency" rel="nofollow">insurgents</a>, was promoted to second-in-command, and played a pivotal role in the two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-Castrosbrain1960-8" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-Castrosbrain1960-8" rel="nofollow">[8]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_tribunal_(Cuba)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_tribunal_(Cuba)" rel="nofollow">revolutionary tribunals</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-ReferenceA-9" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-ReferenceA-9" rel="nofollow">[9]</a> instituting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrarian_Reform_Laws_of_Cuba#First_agrarian_reform_law_under_Che_Guevara" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrarian_Reform_Laws_of_Cuba#First_agrarian_reform_law_under_Che_Guevara" rel="nofollow">agrarian land reform</a> as minister of industries, helping spearhead a successful nationwide <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Literacy_Campaign" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Literacy_Campaign" rel="nofollow">literacy campaign</a>, serving as both national bank president and instructional director for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolutionary_Armed_Forces" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolutionary_Armed_Forces" rel="nofollow">Cuba&#039;s armed forces</a>, 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion" rel="nofollow">Bay of Pigs Invasion</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-Kellner89pg69-10" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-Kellner89pg69-10" rel="nofollow">[10]</a> and bringing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" rel="nofollow">Soviet</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon" rel="nofollow">nuclear-armed</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_missile" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_missile" rel="nofollow">ballistic missiles</a> to Cuba, which preceded the 1962 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis" rel="nofollow">Cuban Missile Crisis</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-11" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-11" rel="nofollow">[11]</a> Additionally, Guevara was a prolific writer and diarist, composing a seminal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_Warfare_(book)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_Warfare_(book)" rel="nofollow">guerrilla warfare manual</a>, along with a best-selling <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoir" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoir" rel="nofollow">memoir</a> about his youthful <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Motorcycle_Diaries_(book)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Motorcycle_Diaries_(book)" rel="nofollow">continental motorcycle journey</a>. His experiences and studying of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism" rel="nofollow">Marxism–Leninism</a> led him to posit that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World" rel="nofollow">Third World</a>&#039;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underdevelopment" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underdevelopment" rel="nofollow">underdevelopment</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_theory" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_theory" rel="nofollow">dependence</a> was an intrinsic result of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism" rel="nofollow">imperialism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocolonialism" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocolonialism" rel="nofollow">neocolonialism</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_monopoly_capitalism" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_monopoly_capitalism" rel="nofollow">monopoly capitalism</a>, with the only remedy being <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletarian_internationalism" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletarian_internationalism" rel="nofollow">proletarian internationalism</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_revolution" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_revolution" rel="nofollow">world revolution</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-12" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-12" rel="nofollow">[12]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-AfroAsian1965-13" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-AfroAsian1965-13" rel="nofollow">[13]</a> Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to foment continental revolutions across both <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa" rel="nofollow">Africa</a> and South America,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-14" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-14" rel="nofollow">[14]</a> first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simba_Rebellion" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simba_Rebellion" rel="nofollow">unsuccessfully</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_the_Congo_(L%C3%A9opoldville)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_the_Congo_(L%C3%A9opoldville)" rel="nofollow">Congo-Kinshasa</a> and later <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%91ancahuaz%C3%BA_Guerrilla" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%91ancahuaz%C3%BA_Guerrilla" rel="nofollow">in Bolivia</a>, where he was captured by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" rel="nofollow">CIA</a>-assisted Bolivian forces and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summary_execution" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summary_execution" rel="nofollow">summarily executed</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-15" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-15" rel="nofollow">[15]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Guevara remains both a revered and reviled historical figure, polarized in the collective imagination in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_works_on_Che_Guevara" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_works_on_Che_Guevara" rel="nofollow">multitude of biographies</a>, memoirs, essays, documentaries, songs, and films. As a result of his perceived martyrdom, poetic invocations for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_conflict" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_conflict" rel="nofollow">class struggle</a>, and desire to create the consciousness of a &quot;new man&quot; driven by moral rather than material incentives,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-16" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-16" rel="nofollow">[16]</a> Guevara has evolved into a quintessential icon of various <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics" rel="nofollow">leftist</a> movements. In contrast, his ideological critics on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics" rel="nofollow">the right</a> accuse him of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism" rel="nofollow">authoritarianism</a> and sanctifying violence against his political opponents. Despite disagreements on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_Che_Guevara" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_Che_Guevara" rel="nofollow">his legacy</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine)" rel="nofollow">Time</a></i> magazine named him one of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_100:_The_Most_Important_People_of_the_Century" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_100:_The_Most_Important_People_of_the_Century" rel="nofollow">100 most influential</a> people of the 20th century,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-17" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-17" rel="nofollow">[17]</a> while an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Korda" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Korda" rel="nofollow">Alberto Korda</a> photograph of him, titled <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrillero_Heroico" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrillero_Heroico" rel="nofollow">Guerrillero Heroico</a></i>, was cited by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_Institute_College_of_Art" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_Institute_College_of_Art" rel="nofollow">Maryland Institute College of Art</a>as &quot;the most famous photograph in the world&quot;.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-18" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevar#cite_note-18" rel="nofollow">[18]</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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