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| An American tourist visiting Cuba in 2015 poses in front of a figure of Che Guevera, a larger than life leader of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture. PillartoPost.org photo. |
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| Photo: Alberto Korda. |
Che Guevara (1928-1967), a prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution and a South American guerrilla leader.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist.
In early 1965, from Cuba he travelled to Africa and eventually to Bolivia to lead unsuccessful attempts to bring Cuban style Marxism overseas. In 1967 he led forces rebelling against the government of René Barrientos Ortuño. With alleged US assistance, the Bolivian army captured Guevara [see below]and his remaining fighters.
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| He was executed on 9 October 1967 in the Bolivian village of La Higuera. |
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