Born in Rosario, Argentina, on June 14, 1928, Ernesto R. Guevara de la Serna studied medicine before traveling around South America, observing conditions that spurred his Marxist beliefs. He aided Fidel Castro in overturning the Cuban government and then worked in a political post. Guevara later engaged in guerrilla action in Bolivia, where he was killed. He’s revered by many as a cultural hero.Revolutionary leader Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, better known as Che Guevara, was born on June 14, 1928, in Rosario, Argentina. After completing his medical studies at the University of Buenos Aires, Guevara first became politically active in his native Argentina and then in neighboring Bolivia and Guatemala. In 1954, he met Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and his brother Raul while in Mexico.
Guevara became part of Fidel Castro’s efforts to overthrow the Batista government in Cuba. He served as a military adviser to Castro and led guerrilla troops in battles against Batista forces. When Castro took power in 1959, Guevara became in charge of La Cabaña Fortress prison. It is estimated that between 156 and 550 people were executed on Guevara’s extra-judicial orders during this time.
Later, he became president of the Cuban national bank and helped to shift the country’s trade relations from the United States to the Soviet Union. Three years later, he was appointed minister of industry. Guevara left this post in 1965 to export the ideas of Cuba’s revolution to other parts of the world. In 1966, he began to try to incite the people of Bolivia to rebel against their government, but had little success. With only a small guerrilla force to support his efforts, Guevara was captured and killed in La Higuera by the Bolivian army on October 9, 1967.

“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.”
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“Many will call me an adventurer – and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes. ”
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“I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. ”
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“Silence is argument carried out by other means. ”
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“Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. ”
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“Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel ”
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“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.””
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“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.” ……………………………………………………………………………
“Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?”
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“Let the world change you and you can change the world”
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“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.”
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“Be realistic, demand the impossible!”
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“I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.”
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“And then many things became very clear… we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.”
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“The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.”
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“I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.”
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“There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country’s defeat is a defeat for all of us.”
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“I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.”

“I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.”