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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, el Che, or simply Che; was an Argentinian Marxist revolutionary, political figure, author, military theorist, and a leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. As a young man, Guevara studied medicine and traveled throughout Latin America where he witnessed the poverty in which many lived. Through these experiences he became convinced that only revolution could remedy the region's economic inequality, leading him to study Marxism and become involved in Guatemala's social revolution under President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán.
Later while in Mexico in 1956, Guevara joined Fidel Castro's revolutionary 26th of July Movement that fought in the Cuban Revolution that seized power from the Cuban dictator General Fulgencio Batista in 1959. For a few months after the success of the Cuban Revolution, Guevara was assigned the role of supreme prosecutor, overseeing the revolutionary tribunals and executions of suspected war criminals associated with the previous regime. As a military commander he was know both for his fearlessness and his harsh and ruthless treatment of prisoners and traitors.
Guevara served in several important posts in the new government that was trying to solve its economic and financial problems while revolutionizing the Cuban social structure. Later he traveled to many parts of the world meeting important leaders on behalf of the Cuban government. He was a prolific writer of of books, including a classic manual on the theory and practice of guerrilla warfare (foco theory). Guevara disappeared mysteriously from Cuba in 1965, then resurfaced to incite revolutions backed by Castro, first in an unsuccessful attempt in Congo-Kinshasa and then an unsuccessful in Bolivia where he was captured and executed.
Both notorious for his brutality and revered for his unwavering dedication to his revolutionary doctrines, Guevara was a figure during his lifetime. After his death, Guevara became an icon of socialist revolutionary movements worldwide, as well as a global merchandising emblem as a countercultural hero. He has been venerated and reviled in dozens of biographies, memoirs, books, essays, documentaries, songs, and films. An Alberto Korda photo of him (shown) has been called by the Maryland Institute College of Art "the most famous photograph in the world and a symbol of the 20th century."[1]
