He joined Fidel Castro to overthrow the right-wing Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1957. The revolution proved successful. But even more successful proved Guevara's charisma and his voicing of the ways ordinary people could wage revolution: "Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defense against oppression." (Cited by "Ernesto 'Che' Guevara," Books and Writers. 2003, from Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare, 1960) Guevara earned his nickname 'Che,' because of his habit of saluting his fellow revolutionaries as 'friend.' However, after the conquest of power in January 1959 when Guevara gained fame as the leading figure in Castro's government, Che began to lose some of his 'friends' in Castro's government, because of his private criticism of the domination of the Soviet block in the world. Although he supported centralized planning, he felt that the Kremlin had become "an accomplice of imperialism," rather than a true supporter of all oppressed peoples. Guevara left his post to organize revolutions...
In 1966 Guevara went to Bolivia where he trained and led a guerrilla war in the Santa Cruz region. The counterrevolutionaries ambushed him and his hands were removed, in order to make a positive fingerprint comparison with records in Argentina, to prove that he was dead and so the revolutionaries would not rally to his side, thinking that he was still alive somewhere in the jungle. Later, Castro said: "Che considered himself a soldier of this revolution, with absolutely no concern about surviving it." ("Ernesto, 'Che' Guevara, Books and Writers, 2003) Che Guevara has in fact survived, by creating a legend with his compelling biography and the force of his emotional words, that lives on long after the man and the ideology the man supported died.
Guevara Perceptions of Che Guevera PERCEPTIONS OF CHE GUEVARA Che Guevara was born as Ernesto Guevara de la Serna in 1928 to a middle-class family (Castaneda 1998, 3). He was Argentinean by birth but was later awarded with an honorary Cuban citizenship in recognition of his contribution towards the armed struggle in the Cuban revolution. Studying to become a doctor, Guevara became influenced by Marxist ideals and teachings upon a motorbike trip across
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