Che Guevara

Che Guevara, a violent revolutionary, made his fame in a number of violent coups’s and overthrows. He was called a Marxist, physician, military theorist, author, politician, and a guerilla leader. Although he was known for all of these titles his legacy left behind was that of change through bloodshed.

As a young medical student Guevara spent time traveling South America and seeing the poverty epidemic first-hand. Guevara believed that the world’s intrinsic economic issues were due to greed and monopoly capitalism, the only remedy became a world revolution. Guevara travelled the world speaking on his ideas of socialism and the theory and practice of guerilla warfare. He played a violent role in uprisings and attempted coup’s in Guatemala, Cuba, Bolivia and the Congo-Kinshasa. The uprising in Cuba being his most famous, he supported and fought with fellow socialist Fidel Castro to overthrow the CIA imposed Fulgencio Batista.

Che Guevara was captured in Bolivia and was executed by the Bolivian military after days of failed interrogation. Although he was mourned by some, many governments and political leaders felt a weight of relief leaving their shoulders. Guevara’s legacy left will be one of violent change in South America over three decades.