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Birth of Ernesto Guevara
Ernesto Guevara was born into a wealthy family in Rosario, Argentina. -
Childhood Of Ernesto
Since Ernesto was two years old, he had begun to suffer from asthmatic bronchitis and the parents were looking for a suitable place for the child's health.
Celia de la Serna, his mother, gave him his first lessons at home since the continuous crises prevented him from attending school regularly. -
Ernesto leans towards Marxism
His leftist militancy led him to participate in the opposition against Juan Domingo Perón; From 1953 he traveled through Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Guatemala, discovering the prevailing misery among the masses of Latin America and the omnipresence of North American imperialism in the region, and participating in multiple protest movements, experiences that definitively inclined him towards Marxism. -
Guevara became Fidel's lieutenant
In 1955 Ernesto Che Guevara met Fidel Castro and Raúl Castro in Mexico, who were preparing a revolutionary expedition to Cuba. He joined the group as a doctor, and landed in Cuba in 1956. Once the guerrillas had settled in Sierra Maestra, Guevara became Fidel's lieutenant and commanded one of the two columns to conquer the island. He participated in the decisive battle for the taking of Santa Clara 1958 and finally entered Havana in 1959 and end the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. -
Guevara intervenes for the woman
At a conference organized by the Revolutionary Women's Unit, Che intervenes. A press release from the time states that the Comandante emphasized: women must be incorporated into all aspects of the work and they must receive, for this work, the same remuneration as men. He also explained how the development of the technique made it more possible every day for women to be incorporated into all aspects of production since physical effort is almost unnecessary. -
From revolution to politics
In the task of building a new society in Cuba, Che Guevara was one of the most tireless collaborators of Fidel Castro. In the economic controversy that took place at the beginning of the new regime, he opted for an original, creative and non-bureaucratic or institutionalized interpretation of Marxist principles. Searching for a way for the real independence of Cuba, he strove for the industrialization of the country, linking it to the aid of the Soviet Union. -
A Speech "What Should Be Young People?"
In the integration of youth organizations, Che attends the event as a speaker. In a speech that should serve as a permanent guide for the young revolutionaries, he emphasizes what the Union of Young Communists is and what it should be. According to him, the Union of Young Communists must be defined with a single word: vanguard, because they should be the vanguard of all movements and the first to be willing to make the sacrifices that the revolution demands. -
Leave Cuba
His concern as a professional revolutionary made him secretly leave Cuba in 1965 and go to the Congo, where he fought in support of the ongoing revolutionary movement, convinced that only armed insurrectional action was effective against imperialism. -
Guerrilla Group Of Bolivia
Already relieved of his posts in the Cuban State, Che Guevara returned to Ibero-America in 1966 to launch a revolution that he hoped would be continental in scope: he chose Bolivia as the center of operations to install a guerrilla group that could spread its influence to Argentina, Chile, Peru, Brazil and Paraguay. At the head of a small group he tried that the armed action itself would create the conditions for a revolutionary movement to be unleashed; -
Death Of Che Guevara
In the combat of Quebrada del Churo, Guevara was wounded by a bullet in his left leg, taken prisoner together with Simeón Cuba and transferred to La Higuera where they were confined. There they would also place the corpses of the dead guerrillas. Among the belongings seized by the military was the diary that Che kept in Bolivia. On the morning of October 9, the Bolivian government announced that Ernesto Guevara had been killed in combat the day before.