"of the indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchú, ""In these present times, when for many, ethics and other profound moral values are seen to be so easily bought and sold, the example of Che Guevara takes on an even greater dimension."" In Nicaragua, the Sandinistas, a group with ideological roots in Guevarism were re-elected to government after 16 years. Supporters wore Guevara T-shirts during the 2006 victory celebrations. Bolivian president Evo Morales has paid many tributes to Guevara including visiting his initial burial site in Bolivia to declare ""Che Lives"", and installing a portrait of the Argentine made from local coca"
"Che Guevara Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara (; As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger and disease he witnessed. His burgeoning desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Árbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow at the behest of the United Fruit Company solidified Guevara's political ideology. Later in Mexico City, Guevara met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht ""Granma"" with the"
"Che (2008 film) Che is a two-part 2008 biographical film about Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Benicio del Toro. Rather than follow a standard chronological order, the films offer an oblique series of interspersed moments along the overall timeline. ""Part One"" is entitled ""The Argentine"" and focuses on the Cuban Revolution from the landing of Fidel Castro, Guevara, and other revolutionaries in Cuba to their successful toppling of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship two years later. ""Part Two"" is titled ""Guerrilla"" and focuses on Guevara's attempt to bring revolution to Bolivia and his demise. Both"
"group that debated and formed the new plans for Cuba's social, political, and economic development. In addition, Che began to write his book ""Guerrilla Warfare"" while resting at Tarara. In February, the revolutionary government proclaimed Guevara ""a Cuban citizen by birth"" in recognition of his role in the triumph. When Hilda Gadea arrived in Cuba in late January, Guevara told her that he was involved with another woman, and the two agreed on a divorce, which was finalized on May 22. On June 2, 1959, he married Aleida March, a Cuban-born member of the 26th of July movement with whom"
"Guevarism Guevarism is a theory of communist revolution and a military strategy of guerilla warfare associated with Marxist revolutionary Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara, a leading figure of the Cuban Revolution who believed in the idea of Marxism–Leninism and embraced its principles. After the 1959 triumph of the Cuban insurrection led by a militant foco under Fidel Castro, his Argentine-born, cosmopolitan and Marxist colleague, Guevara parlayed his ideology and experiences into a model for emulation (and at times, direct military intervention) around the globe. While exporting one such ""focalist"" revolution to Bolivia, leading an armed vanguard party there in October 1967, Guevara"
"Che (interjection) Che (; ; ; ) is an interjection commonly used in Argentina, Uruguay and the Valencian Community, signifying ""hey!"", ""fellow"", ""guy"". The Argentine revolutionary Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara earned his nickname from his frequent use of the expression. The origin of ""che"" is unclear: The first recorded use of ""che"" in Spanish America appears to be in Esteban Echeverría's short story The Slaughter Yard (El matadero), published posthumously in 1871 but set in 1838-9 in the Rosas era. Che, negra bruja, salí de aquí antes de que te pegue un tajo—exclamaba el carnicero. In the Falkland Islands, ""che"" is"
"which they ultimately rejected. In a speech at the 1967 International Workers' Day rally in Havana, the acting minister of the armed forces, Major Juan Almeida, announced that Guevara was ""serving the revolution somewhere in Latin America"". Before he departed for Bolivia, Guevara altered his appearance by shaving off his beard and much of his hair, also dying it grey so that he was unrecognizable as Che Guevara. On November 3, 1966, Guevara secretly arrived in La Paz on a flight from Montevideo under the false name Adolfo Mena González, posing as a middle-aged Uruguayan businessman working for the Organization"
"Wálter Guevara Wálter Guevara Arze (March 11, 1912, Ayopaya Province, Cochabamba Department, Bolivia – June 20, 1996, La Paz, Bolivia) was a Bolivian statesman, cabinet minister, writer, diplomat, and president (1979). Guevara was born in Ayopaya Province, Cochabamba Department on March 11, 1912. Trained as a lawyer and economist, he studied in the United States. He co-founded the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) in 1941, alongside Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Hernán Siles, and others. When the MNR came to power following the 1952 Bolivian Revolution, Guevara served as minister of foreign relations in the cabinet of President Paz Estenssoro (1952–56). He was"
"Aleida Guevara Aleida Guevara March (born 24 November 1960) is the eldest daughter of four children born to Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara and his second wife, Aleida March. She is a doctor of medicine, based at the ""William Soler Children's Hospital"" in Havana. She has also worked as a physician in Angola, Ecuador, and Nicaragua. She is interviewed about the philosophy behind universal health care in Michael Moore's film ""Sicko"". Guevara has been an advocate for human rights and debt relief for developing nations. She is the author of the book ""Chávez, Venezuela and the New Latin America."" Although Aleida was"
"groups that he helped as a military advisor) for trying to impose a dictatorship instead of self-management. Guevarism Guevarism is a theory of communist revolution and a military strategy of guerilla warfare associated with Marxist revolutionary Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara, a leading figure of the Cuban Revolution who believed in the idea of Marxism–Leninism and embraced its principles. After the 1959 triumph of the Cuban insurrection led by a militant foco under Fidel Castro, his Argentine-born, cosmopolitan and Marxist colleague, Guevara parlayed his ideology and experiences into a model for emulation (and at times, direct military intervention) around the globe. While"
"an Argentine doctor and Marxist-Leninist named Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara, a proponent of guerrilla warfare keen to join Cuba's Revolution. Fidel liked him, later describing him as ""a more advanced revolutionary than I was."" Castro also associated with the Spaniard Alberto Bayo, a Republican veteran of the Spanish Civil War; Bayo agreed to teach Fidel's rebels the necessary skills in guerrilla warfare, clandestinely meeting them at Chapultepec for training. Requiring funding, Castro toured the U.S. in search of wealthy sympathizers; Prío contributed $100,000. Castro later claimed that he had been monitored by Batista's agents, who orchestrated a failed assassination against him."
"commonly used by English speakers (""""G'day che, how's things?""""). It can also be written as ""chay"". The word is sometimes used to describe someone who is a particularly traditional Falkland Islander (""""He's a proper che""""). Che (interjection) Che (; ; ; ) is an interjection commonly used in Argentina, Uruguay and the Valencian Community, signifying ""hey!"", ""fellow"", ""guy"". The Argentine revolutionary Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara earned his nickname from his frequent use of the expression. The origin of ""che"" is unclear: The first recorded use of ""che"" in Spanish America appears to be in Esteban Echeverría's short story The Slaughter Yard"
"confirmed that the arrest was part of a request from the U.S. government for his extradition. José González Valencia, also known by his alias ""El Chepa"", ""Camarón"" (English: Shrimp), and ""Santy"", was born in Mexico. Other sources cite his real name as José María González Valencia and his alias ""El Chema"". According to his Bolivian ID card that was issued to him under the fake name Jafett Arias Becerra, he was born on 18 May 1975. His parents were J. Abigael González Mendoza (father) and Estela Valencia Farías (mother). According to the Mexican government, the González Valencia clan was made"
"Che Guevara entered Bolivia with the pseudonym ""Adolfo Mena González"" on November 3, 1966. Three days later, he left the capital city of La Paz for the countryside. He planned to organize a foco with Bolivia as his target. Planning to start a guerrilla campaign against the military government of President René Barrientos, he assembled a band of 29 Bolivians, 25 Cubans, and a few foreigners which included Guevara himself, one woman from East Germany named Tamara Bunke, and three Peruvians. This small but well-armed group carried out two successful ambushes against two army patrols in the spring of 1967,"
"in its most democratic essence"". Nevertheless, Guevara remains a national hero in Cuba, where his image adorns the 3 peso banknote and school children begin each morning by pledging ""We will be like Che."" In his homeland of Argentina, where high schools bear his name, numerous Che museums dot the country and in 2008 a bronze statue of him was unveiled in the city of his birth, Rosario. Guevara has been sanctified by some Bolivian campesinos as ""Saint Ernesto"", who pray to him for assistance. In contrast, Guevara remains a hated figure amongst many in the Cuban exile and Cuban-American"
"Nacha Guevara Nacha Guevara (born Clotilde Acosta, October 3, 1940) is an Argentine singer-songwriter, dancer and actress from Mar de Plata, Buenos Aires province. Trained as a dancer and actress, she discovered by chance a career as a singer becoming a symbol around 1968 in the avant-garde movement at Instituto Di Tella in Buenos Aires, the preeminent pioneer center for visual and theater experimentation at that time. She was a controversial cult figure in the underground movement and as a singer-songwriter in the ""cafe-concert"" scene, singing tunes and parodies by Boris Vian, Georges Brassens, Tom Lehrer, Nicolas Guillén and Argentine"
"later become the birthplace of the legendary guerrilla warrior Ernesto Guevara, aka Che Guevara. ""La Rosario"", is situated in the intersection of Urquiza and Entre Rios. Next in line came the Palacio Fuentes, a recognizable landmark and one of the first skyscrapers in South America. Other projects carried out by ""Ferrarese Hermanos & Cia."" under the direction of Enrique Ferrarese were the ""Club Rosarino de Pelota"", the ""Barrio Fisherton Golf Club"", the tribune of ""Newell's Old Boys"" stadium in Parque de la Independencia, which showcases the first flying roof (not sustained by columnar structures) in South America and the apartment"
"1928. The deception was made to avoid the scandal of being already three months pregnant, before getting marriage, would create. He is the eldest of five children in a middle-class Argentine family of Spanish (including Basque and Cantabrian) descent, as well as Irish by means of his patrilineal ancestor Patrick Lynch. In accordance with the flexibility allowed in Spanish naming customs, his legal name (Ernesto Guevara) will sometimes appear with ""de la Serna"" and/or ""Lynch"" accompanying it. Referring to Che's ""restless"" nature, his father declared ""the first thing to note is that in my son's veins flowed the blood of"
"only four and a half when her father left Cuba to foment revolution in the Congo, and almost 7 years old when he was executed in Bolivia, she still has fond memories of him. One such story that she has shared publicly is that her father (Che) would make up animal stories for his faraway children, stating: Guevara refers to her father Che as a source of personal inspiration. When giving speeches throughout the world, she often mentions his writings, remarking that she finds his diaries particularly helpful for their ""political insights and emotional maturity"". She has also stated that"
"in Zagreb, Croatia. There she was guest speaker next to other notable public thinkers like Slavoj Žižek and Tariq Ali. She has two daughters, Estefania (aka 'guapísima') and Celia. Aleida Guevara Aleida Guevara March (born 24 November 1960) is the eldest daughter of four children born to Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara and his second wife, Aleida March. She is a doctor of medicine, based at the ""William Soler Children's Hospital"" in Havana. She has also worked as a physician in Angola, Ecuador, and Nicaragua. She is interviewed about the philosophy behind universal health care in Michael Moore's film ""Sicko"". Guevara has"
"Bolivian jungle. Six other bodies from Che Guevara's guerrillas can not be found to date, Jorge Vázquez Viañas is just one of these unaccountable deaths. He is survived by his German wife and two children. Jorge Vazquez Viana Jorge Vázquez Viaña (born 2 January 1939 in La Paz; Bolivia, presumed dead, May 1967; Nickname: ""El Loro"" or ""Bigotes"") was a Bolivian revolutionary. He was part of the intellectual revolutionary guerrilla group of Che Guevara. He was raised in a conservative, affluent family, where he grew up with his older brother, Humberto, in La Paz, Bolivia. His father, Dr. Humberto Vázquez"
"I am Che Guevara and I am worth more to you alive than dead."" Guevara was tied up and taken to a dilapidated mud schoolhouse in the nearby village of La Higuera on the evening of October 8. For the next half day, Guevara refused to be interrogated by Bolivian officers and only spoke quietly to Bolivian soldiers. One of those Bolivian soldiers, a helicopter pilot named Jaime Nino de Guzman, describes Che as looking ""dreadful"". According to Guzman, Guevara was shot through the right calf, his hair was matted with dirt, his clothes were shredded, and his feet were"
"Vida del Che Vida del Che () is an Argentine biographical graphic novel written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and illustrated by Alberto Breccia and Enrique Breccia. The ""Historieta"" (comic book) narrates the life of the revolutionary Che Guevara from his childhood to his assassination in Bolivia. It was originally published as a book in Argentina in 1968, only three months after Che Guevara's death. It was immediately banned by the dictatorship self-styled as ""Argentine Revolution"" (1966-1973) and the whole edition was kidnapped. The original drawings were saved by Enrique Breccia, and it was finally republished in 2008. The illustrator Enrique"
"with additional context supplied by ""Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary"" by Alberto Granado. Guevara is played by Gael Garcia Bernal (who previously played Che in the 2002 miniseries ""Fidel""), and Granado by the Argentine actor Rodrigo de la Serna, who coincidentally is a second cousin to the real life Guevara on his maternal side. Directed by Brazilian director Walter Salles and written by Puerto Rican playwright José Rivera, the film was an international co-production among production companies from Argentina, the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Chile, Peru and France. The film's executive producers were Robert"
"notebook that Che Guevara was carrying when he was captured by the Bolivian Army and the CIA. León Felipe León Felipe Camino Galicia (11 April 1884 – 17 September 1968) was an anti-fascist Spanish poet. Felipe was born in Tábara, Zamora, Spain, while his parents were on travel. His father was a notary public, and consequently very well off. His family established in Santander. Later on, Felipe would study pharmacy and start a business as a pharmacist, mostly to amuse his father. However, literature was stronger and he eloped with an itinerant theatre troupe. As a result, he was charged"
"the reason, because ""Che!"" is abundant evidence that no one connected with this stinkeroo gave a damn about Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution or anything else requiring more than five seconds' thought"". The film score was composed, arranged and conducted by Lalo Schifrin and the soundtrack album was released on the Tetragrammaton label in 1969. ""All compositions by Lalo Schifrin except as indicated"" Che! (1969 film) Che! is a 1969 American biographical drama film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Omar Sharif as Marxist revolutionary Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara. It follows Guevara from when he first landed in Cuba"
"many years. On the 40th anniversary of Guevara's execution in Bolivia the compilation ""Che in Verse"" brought together a diverse collection of 135 poems and songs in tribute to Che Guevara. Celebrated poets such as Pablo Neruda, Allen Ginsberg, Julio Cortázar, Nicolas Guillén, Derek Walcott, Al Purdy, Rafael Alberti, Ko Un, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko devoted the aforementioned works to, as the book states in its introduction, ""celebrate the world’s icon of rebellion"". In September 2007, Guevara was voted ""Argentina's greatest historical and political figure."" Despite the occasional controversy, Guevara's status as a popular icon has continued throughout the world, leading"
"Pedro Guevara Pedro Guevara (February 23, 1879 – January 19, 1938), was a Philippine soldier, lawyer, legislator, and Spanish writer who became Resident Commissioner of the Philippines during the American colonial period. Born in Santa Cruz, Laguna, Philippines, on February 23, 1879. He attended the Ateneo Municipal de Manila and graduated from Colegio de San Juan de Letran, Manila, in 1896. He joined the Filipino forces during the Philippine Revolution and assisted in promoting the peace agreement of ""Biak na Bato"" at San Miguel, Bulacan, in 1897. He later rejoined the Filipino forces during the revolution, and also served throughout"
"to the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow the Cuban government in 1961. Among the civilians living in Guatemala City during the coup was a 25-year-old Ernesto Che Guevara. After a couple of abortive attempts to fight on the side of the government, Guevara took shelter at the embassy of Argentina, before eventually being granted safe passage to Mexico, where he would join the Cuban Revolution. His experience of the Guatemalan coup was a large factor in convincing him ""of the necessity for armed struggle ... against imperialism"", and would inform his successful military strategy during the Cuban Revolution."
"Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara, but it is also a backronym for ""Cheap Healthy Eats"". The latter name was registered with the university administration in an attempt to avoid political scrutiny. During the 1980s, collective members began to host reggae and punk rock shows, and in the 1990s, the space became an internationally recognized staple of the hardcore/punk/post-punk/indie rock scene. Today, the Ché operates primarily as a venue for a variety of musical genres, many based around the DIY ethic, and is an on-and-off again vegan cafe and catering operation. It also acts as a resource for the music and art"
"The Motorcycle Diaries (book) The Motorcycle Diaries () is a memoir that traces the early travels of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara, then a 23-year-old medical student, and his friend Alberto Granado, a 29-year-old biochemist. Leaving Buenos Aires, Argentina, in January 1952 on the back of a sputtering single cylinder 1939 Norton 500cc dubbed ""La Poderosa"" (""The Mighty One""), they desired to explore the South America they only knew from books. During the formative odyssey Guevara is transformed by witnessing the social injustices of exploited mine workers, persecuted communists, ostracized lepers, and the tattered descendants of a once-great Inca civilization."
"1 November 2008 as part of the AFI Fest. ""Che"" was screened in Guevara's homeland of Argentina in November 2008. To mark the occasion, the streets of Buenos Aires were decorated with large posters of Del Toro in his role as the guerrilla fighter, unprecedented in the city's history. When questioned by the press on Guevara's ideas and use of violence, Del Toro stated that if he had lived during the 1960s, he would have agreed with Guevara, and that although he did not support violent revolution now, in the '60s he may ""have been another person and in agreement"
"of various leftist movements. ""Time"" magazine named him one of the people of the 20th century, while an Alberto Korda photograph of him, titled ""Guerrillero Heroico"" (shown), was cited by the Maryland Institute College of Art as ""the most famous photograph in the world"". Ernesto Guevara was born to Ernesto Guevara Lynch and Celia de la Serna y Llosa, on June 14, 1928, in Rosario, Argentina, according to his birth certificate, but the according to biographer Jon Lee Anderson's book ""Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life"" Che's mother confided to an astrologer friend that he was actually born on May 14,"