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Extremely early life
Ernesto Guevara was born to Ernesto Guevara Lynch and his wife, Celia de la Serna y Llosa, on June 14, 1928, in Rosario, Argentina.
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Lifespan
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12 years of age
Guevara learned chess from his father and began participating in local tournaments by age 12.He was emotional about poetry, especially that of Pablo Neruda, John Keats, Antonio Machado, Federico García Lorca, Gabriela Mistral, César Vallejo, and Walt Whitman. -
Growing older
As he grew older, he developed an interest in the Latin American writers like Horacio Quiroga, Ciro Alegría, Jorge Icaza, Rubén Darío, and Miguel Asturias. He had his own handwritten notebooks of concepts, definitions, and philosophies of influential intellectuals,This included devising logical sketches of Buddha and Aristotle. Sigmund Freud's ideas fascinated him as he quoted him on a variety of topics from dreams and libido to narcissism and the Oedipus complex. -
1948-1950
In 1948, Guevara entered the University of Buenos Aires to study medicine. His "hunger to explore the world." His first expedition was in 1950, it was a 4,500-kilometer (2,800 mi) solo trip through the agricultural provinces of northern Argentina on a bicycle on which he installed a small engine. In 1951 He started a second expedition, a nine-month, 8,000-kilometer (5,000 mi) continental motorcycle trek through most of South America. -
Beginning of perfection
On July 7, 1953, Guevara set out again, this time to Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador. On December 10, 1953, before leaving for Guatemala, Guevara sent an update to his Aunt Beatriz from San José, Costa Rica. In the letter Guevara speaks of traversing the dominion of the United Fruit Company; a journey which convinced him that the Company's capitalist system was a terrible one. Guevara decided to settle in Guatemala so as to "perfect himself." -
Trouble and obsession
His first wife Hilda notes in her memoir My Life with Che, that for a while, Guevara considered going to work as a doctor in Africa and that he continued to be deeply troubled by the poverty around him.Hilda describes Guevara's obsession with an elderly washerwoman whom he was treating, remarking that he saw her as "representative of the most forgotten and exploited class". -
Military
he considered Batista a "U.S. puppet whose strings needed cutting." Although he planned to be the group's combat medic, Guevara participated in the military training with the members of the Movement.Guevara and the others underwent arduous 15-hour marches over mountains, across rivers, and through the dense undergrowth, learning and perfecting the procedures of ambush and quick retreat. -
Social inequalities
In an effort to eliminate social inequalities, Guevara and Cuba's new leadership had moved to swiftly transform the political and economic base of the country through nationalizing factories banks, and businesses, while attempting to ensure affordable housing, healthcare and employment for all Cubans. However, in order for a genuine transformation of consciousness to take root, Guevara believed that such structural changes would have to be accompanied by a conversion in people's social relations -
New York City and the United Nations
In December 1964, Che Guevara had emerged as a "revolutionary statesman of world stature" and thus traveled to New York City as head of the Cuban delegation to speak at the United Nations. On December 11, 1964, during Guevara's hour-long, impassioned address at the UN, he criticized the United Nations' inability to confront the "brutal policy of apartheid" in South Africa, asking "Can the United Nations do nothing to stop this?"
