Ernesto Che Guevara is a famous Latin American revolutionary. He strove to build a just society based on equal rights between citizens and the absence of inequality in property. One of his main ideas was the assertion that power in the state should belong to the people.
Ernesto Raphael Guevara Lynch de la Serna was born on June 14, 1928 in Rosario, Argentina.
His father was Ernest Guevara Lynch, an Irish-born architect. And her mother is Donna Celia de la Serna la Llosa, from an aristocratic Spanish family. Ernesto had four siblings: Celia, Roberto, Anna Maria and Juan Martin.
At an early age, Tete, as Ernesto was affectionately called among his family, was diagnosed with asthma. Because of this, he was homeschooled part of the time. At the age of 13 he entered college, after which he went to study at the University of Buenos Aires at the Faculty of Medicine.
During World War II, Ernesto, like his parents, opposed the German regime. Participated in demonstrations and was in a militant organization against the dictatorship. After graduating from university, he traveled extensively in Latin America, studying the problems of the treatment of leprosy.
Thanks to the influence of his parents, Ernesto was diversified educated. He read a lot, loved poetry, and even wrote poetry himself. He played football, rugby, went in for equestrian sports and golf, loved cycling.
In 1953, Guevara left for Guatemala. From that moment, his active participation in the political life of this country began. Because of his communist views, a year later he was forced to flee to Mexico. There Ernesto met the Cuban revolutionaries. Under the leadership of Fidel Castro, they tried to overthrow the Batista dictatorship in Cuba.
Ernesto Che Guevara was confident that the success of the Cuban revolution would affect the world order and help bring about the continental revolution. In the summer of 1958, the revolutionaries won a victory in their country. Che Guevara received the highest military rank - commandante, Cuban citizenship and government office.
Since the early 1960s, the picture in Cuba has changed: the number of officials increased, bribery reappeared, and a process of social and property stratification began. Ernesto saw the problem in the negative influence of the surrounding world on Cuba and decided that it was time to start the Latin American revolution.
While trying to start a revolution in Bolivia, he was taken prisoner by the military authorities. On October 9, 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara was shot by order of the government of this country. For a long time, the place of his burial was not known. It was only in 1997 that it was discovered, and his remains, along with the remains of six of his comrades, were exhumed and sent to Cuba.