Che guevara
Che guevara14 June 1928 9 October
1967PoliticianPhysicianRevolutionaryCuban revolution
leaderAuthor
Childhood* Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was born on June 14, 1928
in Rosario ( Argentina).
*His family had aristocratic roots but socialistic ideas a
wealthy upper-middle class family.
*His father was a construction engineer.
*Ernesto was the first of five children.Early Life
. 1.He was good at rugby,
swimming,athletics,shooting,football,golf etc.. in spite of
asthma.
2. He was passionate about poetry,enthusiastic reader
A teenage Ernesto (left) with his parents and siblings, c. 1944.
Seated beside him, from left to right: Celia (mother), Celia
(sister), Roberto, Juan Martn, Ernesto (father) and Ana Mara.
A complete man!!Motar cycle diaries
At the end of 1951, Ernesto set off with his good friend Alberto
Granado on a trip north through South America.
They traveled through Chile, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela, where
they parted ways.
Ernesto continued to Miami and returned to Argentina from there.
Ernesto kept notes during his trip, which he subsequently made into
a book named The Motorcycle Diaries. It was made into an
award-winning movie in 2004. The trip showed him the poverty and
misery all throughout Latin America and he wanted to do something
about it, even if he did not know what.
The transformation periodChile-1.working conditions of miners
.2.meet with a prosecuted communist couple.Machu
Picchu-1.poverty2.exploitation of farmers by landlordsLeperosy
colonyIt awakened him against injustice by the U.S
Fdel Castro and cuban revolutonErnesto returned to Argentina in
1953 and finished medical school. He left again almost immediately
from Argentina. In 1954 he went to Mexico and the following year he
met Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. Castro was planning a
communist rebellion in Cuba. Guevara joined Castro's '26th July
Movement' and played a key role in the eventual success of its
guerrilla war against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Castro overthrew Batista in 1959 and took power in Cuba. From
1959-1961, Guevara was president of the National Bank of Cuba, and
then minister of industry. In this position, he travelled the world
as an ambassador for Cuba. At home, he carried out plans for land
redistribution and the nationalisation of industry.
In 1965, Che decided that he was not meant to be a government
worker, even one in a high post. His calling was revolution, and he
would go and spread it around the world. He disappeared from public
life and began plans for bringing about revolutions in other
nations. The communists believed that Africa was the weak link in
the western capitalist/imperialist stranglehold on the world, so
Che decided to head to the Congo to support a revolution there led
by Laurent Dsir Kabila.The Congo venture was a total fiasco. Che
wanted to remain and die fighting as a martyr, but his Cuban
companions convinced him to escape. All in all, Che was in Congo
for about nine months and he considered it one of his greatest
failures.
Back in Cuba, Che wanted to try again for another communist
revolution, this time in Argentina. Fidel and the others convinced
him that he was more likely to succeed in Bolivia. Che went to
Bolivia in 1966. From the start, this effort, too, was a
fiasco.
He was captured in Bolivia. On October 9, the order was given,
and Che was executed, shot by a Sergeant Mario Tern of the Bolivian
Army. His body was not found until 1997.
Why did he fail?Though he was a heroic defender of the poor he
turned to a cold hearted executionaryLacked vision.At times he was
unsympathetic towards his fightersMachiavellian leadership : He
said the world is full of wicked men so one must not be good
either..Incident1-He killed people brutally when he worked as
prosecutory authority in Castros govermnetIncident 2-He said If you
doubt him hang him
Traits of leadership1.As a president of ministry of industry he
carried out plans for land distribution and nationalization of
industry2.Changemaker- gave a new face to cuban revolution3.Fought
for others and faced difficulties to defend others.4.Good
listener5.Confrontation6.Broad minded7.Decisiomaker8.Open
communicator9.A very good human being10.Struggler11.Agreeable
