Che Guevara

Known for ActingBorn 1928-06-14Died 1967-10-09Rosario, Argentina

Ernesto Rafael "Che" Guevara de la Serna (14 June 1928 – 9 October 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture. 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 intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second in command and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime. Guevara remains both a revered and reviled historical figure, polarized in the collective imagination in a multitude of biographies, memoirs, essays, documentaries, songs and films. As a result of his perceived martyrdom, poetic invocations for class struggle and desire to create the consciousness of a "new man" driven by moral rather than material incentives, Guevara has evolved into a quintessential icon of various leftist movements. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century, while an Alberto Korda photograph of him, titled Guerrillero Heroico, was cited by the Maryland Institute College of Art as "the most famous photograph in the world". Description above from the Wikipedia article Che Guevara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Algiers, the Mecca of Revolutionaries (1962-1974)

Laissez-faire

Personal Che

Che, Today and Always

Una foto recorre el mundo

Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

Infamous Assassinations

Nunca asistas a este tipo de fiestas

Laboratory Greece

Che, Memórias de um Ano Secreto

American Comandante

Kordavision: The man who shot Che Guevara

The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

Ernesto Che Guevara

Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Diary

The Motorcycle Diaries

La Case du siècle

About Extra Hours and Volunteer Work

The Century of Icons

Hello Cubans

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still

History of Brazil

Che: Part One

Che: Part Two

World in Action

The Inconclusive Independence

Comandante

The Hour of the Furnaces

Looking for Fidel

El Che

Death Scenes 2

Chevolution

História do Comunismo

Topaz

Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighella

ORG

A History of an Assignment

Che Guevara, naissance d'un mythe

Код доступа

Cuba, Batista et la mafia

CUBA: Defending Socialism, Resisting Imperialism

Memória Cubana

Ernesto Guevara, también conocido como el Che

Che Guevara - Hasta La Victoria Siempre

Kubánske otázniky

El último panfleto

Parlez-moi du Che

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