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History 10
Che Guevara
Che Guevara also known as Che was born on June 14, 1928 I Rosario,
Argentina. His parents were Llosa and Ernesto Guevara. He was the
oldest of five children in an Argentine family that descended of
Spanish, Basque and Irish traits. While being with his parents his legal
name was Esterno Guevara, which appeared with de la Serna or Lynch
accompanying it. During his early life Guevara felt sympathy for the
poor.
While Guevara was growing up he was introduced to a wide variety of
political perspectives. Since Guevaras father was a proud supporter of
Republicans from the Spanish Civil War, he brought many veterans to
his home. As a boy he had asthma that threatened him through his
entire life he enjoyed swimming, soccer, golf and shooting. By the time
he was a teenager he played rugby for the University of Buenos Aires.
The rugby playing earned him a nickname Fuser because he played
aggressive, but his schoolmates named him Chancho meaning pig
because he rarely bathed and sometime used his shirt more than once
a day. Che Guevara had a passion for playing chess because his father
showed him and then started competing at the age 12. He had a
passion for poetry and as well as memorizing it word from word; he
had an estimate of 3,000 books in his home. As he grew older he
process. Che Guevara went on another expedition but this time it was
different. On July 7, 1953 set out to Bolivia, Ecuador, Panama, Costa
Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador. And in 1954 Guevara saw
Guatemala being interfered by the United States, at this point he
became convinced that the only to change the political establishments
is to cause a violent revolution. In Guatemala Guevara met his future
wife Hilda Gadea, they got married on 1955 in Mexico and had on
child. Guevaras wife was member of the APRA, American Popular
Revolution Alliance. She introduced him to classified officials from the
Arbenz government. This is where Guevara established contact Fidel
Castro on July 26, 1953. This happened at the same time Moncada
Barracks was under attack.
On May 15, 1954 a shipment was sent from the Communist
Czechoslovakia to Puerto Barrios, the shipment had light artillery
weapons. The United States CIA responded in a not so friendly manner
by invading the country. Che Guevara wanted to fight on the behalf of
Abenz and had joined an armed militia force that was organized by the
Communist Youth, but didnt work out so he went back to his medical
duties. Then he volunteered again but Arbenz went to the Mexican
Embassy and told his supporters to leave the country because they
were all mark for death including Che Guevara. Hidla Gadea was
arrested and Guevara was protected by Argentine consulate, where he
stayed for weeks until he could make his way into Mexico.
After the overthrow of the Arbinz regime Guevara view the United
States as a bad imperialist power that can overthrow any country at
any time. So he made a statement that covered everything that the
U.S. did. In his statement he includes that they attempt to destroy any
government that tries to change the socioeconomic inequality in Latin
America.
On September 1954, Guevara worked in the allergy section of the
General Hospital. He also gave lectures on medicine at the National
Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In June 1955 a friend that
Guevara spent time with in Mexico City named Nico Lopez introduced
him to Raul Castro who then formally introduce him to a person who
Che Guevara already knew, Fidel Castro. He is a revolutionary leader
held responsible for forming a plot to overthrow the dictatorship of
Fulgencio Batista on July 26, 1959. The result of doing that was Che
Guevara and Fidel Castro were arrested for a short time. When they
got out the Castro had a plot of the Cuban Revolution to bring weapons
from Cuba, they were trying to overthrow Batista. They started
attacking people in Mexico and 82 were killed or captured and
executed.
Only a few of Ches men survived and regrouped afterwards. After the
war Che and his men continued to their plan and had their factory in
which they made grenades, oven to bake bread, he taught his recruits
about his tactics, and had organized schools to teach campesinos
how to read and write, had a health clinic, and had workshops to teach
military tactics, and a newspaper business. As commander and chief
right besides Fidel Castro, Guevara punished traitors by beating them
brutally. During the guerilla campaign, he summoned a number of his
men to be executed because they were accused of being spies.
On of them was a men named Eutimio Guerra, he admitted treason
when one of Ches discovered that he was promised a large amount of
money transmitted to him (tens of thousands of pesos) in exchange for
giving the tactics of the Cuban air force. This information allowed
Batistas army to burn the rebels homes. Eutimio Guerra told Guevara
to end his life quickly. In that sense Che Guevara held a gun to his
head and fired.
At this point Guevara lost his conscience and became an abusive
leader because his goal was to make Cuba and the other nationalities
strong so the would show no fear to his enemy because the slightest
bit of weakness is what his enemies want. From his action it was clear
to his commanding officer Fidel Castro he was a great leader. He
describes Che Guevara as a intelligent and daring leader. Guevara took
many risk of saving people that were most loyal to him, on of them is
Guevaras teenage lieutenant named Joel Iglesias. During a time where
they were in combat Che wen diving from the bullets and put him in his
should leading him to a safe zone, when enemy soldiers saw him they
wouldnt of dared to fire at him.