Guevara, Ernesto “Che”

1. A Latin-American revolutionary of the twentieth century, Guevara played an important part in the Cuban revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power. After holding various government posts in Cuba , he left the country in 1965 to become a guerrilla leader in Latin America . He was killed in Bolivia in 1967.

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Guevara rejected both capitalism and orthodox communism . In death he became a martyr for radical students in many countries.