Che - Part 1 ; the Argentine who fought the revolution of Cuba in 1957

       Born in 1929 to a wealthy Argentine family, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was training to be a doctor, when a trip around the Americas led him to see the poverty and suffering of his neighbouring countries like Chile, Bolivia and Venenzuela. Together with his dentist friend, they finally made it to the leper colony in Venezuela, and with their life experience, found out how exactly the rich industrialists were teaming up with corrupt governments to grab the lands off poor farmers for uranium, tin and other rare earth mining. Many illiterate farmers were thrown off their lands belonging to their ancestors because of some land 'title' crafted by a greedy Government and the rich landowners. This was in the early 1930s to 1940s.  

          He felt that the United States of South America free from corruption and cronysim to the USA was a collective dream of all South Americans. 
     
       He then decided to join Fidel Castro in the July 1955 meeting in Mexico and then went on to fight in the Cuban revolution of 1957. His iconic standing as the eternal revlutionary with rare principals of justice, rule of law and strict discipline in the field of combat, together with a rare compassion for the Cuban people made him the beloved "Commandate Che (Mr.) Guevara.

       He went on to be Castro's right hand man, as the Minister of Industry, as well as Foreign Minister, culminating in a visit to the United Nations in 1964 to address the Security Council which included the United States.

      He then went and participated in the unsucessful theatre of Congo and then on to the Bolivian conquest to overthrow the then Government. He was captured by Government troops backed by the (OSA formerly the CIA) and killed.

     His reputation is world-wide as the principled revolutionary eschewing the riches that go to the victors of war (in his case the Cuban civil war) and was most comfortable donning the combat fatigues with his trademark black beret, Cuban cigar and full beard.

     His standing as the eternal anti-establishment icon against all things imperialist will be for a long long time. 

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