Che Guevara Born: Revolutionary Doctor Turned Global Icon
He was a doctor from Argentina who treated patients in a motorcycle journey across South America, watched a CIA coup overthrow Guatemala's democracy in 1954, and decided guns were more effective than medicine. Ernesto Guevara linked up with Fidel Castro in Mexico, landed in Cuba in a leaky yacht with 81 men, and spent two years in the mountains fighting a guerrilla war that few thought could work. After the revolution he became Cuba's finance minister, then left to export the model to Congo and Bolivia. In Bolivia, the CIA caught up with him. He was shot on October 9, 1967. His photograph is on more t-shirts than any other radical in history.
June 14, 1928
98 years ago
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