Che Guevara

Che Guevara was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary and physician who helped lead the Cuban Revolution and later organized guerrilla campaigns in Africa and Latin America.

Fidel Castro: Fidel Castro was a Cuban revolutionary and political leader who led Cuba from 1959 to 2008. Castro and Guevara became central collaborators in the Cuban Revolution and its new government.
Guerrilla warfare: Guerrilla warfare is irregular armed conflict in which smaller forces use mobility, concealment, and surprise against stronger opponents. Guevara treated mobile rural insurgency as a way to challenge stronger state forces.
Ernesto Guevara Lynch: Ernesto Guevara Lynch was an Argentine architect and the father of Che Guevara. His family’s circumstances and accounts help document Guevara’s early life in Argentina.
Execution of Che Guevara: Bolivian forces captured and executed Guevara on October 9, 1967, in the village of La Higuera. His execution ended the Bolivian campaign and helped turn him into a global symbol.
Raúl Castro: Raúl Castro was a Cuban revolutionary and political leader who succeeded his brother Fidel as Cuba’s head of state. Raúl fought alongside Guevara in the rebel army and later served with him in Cuba’s government.
Foco theory: Foco theory holds that a small rural guerrilla force can help create revolutionary conditions through armed struggle. Guevara’s writings gave this strategy its most influential formulation.
University of Buenos Aires: The University of Buenos Aires is a public research university founded in Argentina in 1821. Guevara studied medicine there before his travels and revolutionary career.
Guerrillero Heroico: Guerrillero Heroico is Alberto Korda’s 1960 photograph of Guevara, later reproduced worldwide. The image transformed Guevara’s likeness into an enduring emblem of rebellion.
Camilo Cienfuegos: Camilo Cienfuegos was a Cuban revolutionary commander and one of the prominent leaders of the Cuban Revolution. Cienfuegos and Guevara commanded separate rebel columns during the campaign against Batista.
Guerrilla Warfare (Guevara book): Guerrilla Warfare is Guevara’s 1960 manual on insurgency, based partly on the Cuban revolutionary experience. The book sets out the tactics and political assumptions behind his military strategy.

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