ERNESTO

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ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA

• A man, a hero?

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• Be strong but dont lose your tenderness is one
  of the most popular sayings of Ernesto Che
  Guevara.

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Che with family, Che far left.
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• Che was born June 14th, 1928 to Ernesto Guevara
  Lynch and Celia de la Serna y Llosa in Rosario,
  Argentina.
• He was the oldest of 5 children. During his
  childhood and throughout his life he suffered
  intense bouts of asthma.
• He was a good athlete and played rugby. He read a
  lot though his childhood and throughout his life
  enjoyed photography. Even as a young boy through
  his family and his reading he was know for his
  radical perspective.
• He was educated as a doctor.

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His vocation to the revolutionary life started
during his travel in South America.
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• Witnessing the widespread poverty, oppression
  and disenfranchisement throughout Latin America,
  and influenced by his readings of Marxist
  literature, Guevara decided that the only
  solution for the regions inequalities was armed
  revolution.
• His travels and readings also led him to view
  Latin America not as a group of separate nations
  but as a single entity requiring a continent-wide
  strategy for liberation. His conception of a
  borderless, united Latin-America sharing a common
  mestizo' culture was a theme that would
  prominently recur during his later revolutionary
  activities.

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• Che went to Mexico City in 1954 and there in 1955
  was introduced to Raul Castro by the Cuban exiles
  he had met in Guatemala.
• A few weeks later he was introduced to Fidel and
  immediately thought that this was the visionary
  revolutionary leader he was looking for and
  immediately joined the 26th of July Movement to
  over throw Fulgencio Batistas government in Cuba.

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• After the Cuban Revolution with Fidel Castro, he
  fought in other revolutions like The Bolivian
  Revolution where he was captured and killed.

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