Ernesto Guevara : 1928-1967

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The picture : I'd like to talk to you about a man, very popular, especially his face, Ernesto Guevara. He was a famous revolutionary, but we didn't know who he was and why he was so famous.

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[...] Youth of the later 60s and early 70's a focus for the kind of desperate revolutionary action which seemed to millions of young people the only hope of destroying the world of bourgeois industrial capitalism. His dream was to create a government communist but without party. I think there is a lot a similar point with Commandant Massoud, for a lot of thing and for example, the attraction for France and the fact that they spend they all life in war. [...]

[...] Death in Bolivia Che's final revolutionary adventure was in Bolivia: he grossly misjudged the revolutionary potential of that country with disastrous consequences. The attempt ended in his being captured by a Bolivian army unit and shot a day later. On October 9th Ernesto "Che" Guevara was put to death by Bolivian soldiers, trained, equipped and guided by U.S. Green Beret and CIA operatives. His execution remains a historic and controversial event; and thirty years later, the circumstances of his guerrilla foray into Bolivia, his capture, killing, and burial are still the subject of intense public interest and discussion around the world. [...]

[...] URSS had demand a political dependence as condition, we never accept it. Just after the missiles crises. soon as the moment came, I will be ready to sacrificed my life for the liberation of anyone country of latin American.” Failure in Congo Che's intransigence against capitalist and communist establishments forced Castro to drop him (1965), not officially, but in practice Che had to resign. For some months, nobody knew where he was, and a rumored said that he was death. [...]

[...] From there he went to Guatemala, earning his living by writing archaeological articles about Inca and Maya ruins. I prefer to be a illiterate American Indian than a north American millionaire.” The meeting with Fidel He lived with Hilda Gadea, a Marxist of Indian stock who forwarded his political education, looked after him, and present him to Nico Lopez, one of Fidel Castro's lieutenants. When the Guatemala's government fell, because of the CIA, Guevara, Hilda and Castro went to Mexico City (September 1954) where he worked in the General Hospital and realized that in Fidel he had found the leader he was seeking. [...]

[...] During some months he just participates to some colloquium about political. A law permit him to have the double nationality witch made him very proud, he said that he want to be a citizen of South America. Che organized and directed the National Institute of Reform Agrarian to administer the new agrarian laws expropriating the owners; and after that, he directed the Department of Industries and was appointed President of the National Bank of Cuba. He created the “Voluntary work on Sunday”, to build schools or hospitals; and Che was one of these voluntaries. [...]