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Introduction

More than fifty years of his execution and his life is still a matter of dispute Guevara perfect symbol of the leftist movements is Guevara, Ernesto Che Guevara, an Argentine origin born in Rosario in 1928, Cuban revolutionary Marxist mother Celia de la Serna and father Ernesto Guevara Lynch, has studied medicine and was a writer and leader of the military commander and global head of state, a key figure in the Cuban revolution. And Guevara had suffered from asthma since childhood has been to the crisis of the disease throughout his life, he excelled as an athlete and enjoy swimming and playing football, golf, archery, but also became the lead grades. He played on the half line in the university club team to Buenos Aires and also did not join the military service.

Guevara, the revolutionary personal

He formed the revolutionary character when it was Guevara, a medical student in Buenos University Aires traveled to all parts of Latin America with his friend Alberto Granado on a motorbike which is in the final year of college was a goal of the trip is to spend a few weeks of volunteer work in the colony of San Pablo for lepers in Peru on the banks of the Amazon River, and has built up that flight of his personality and his sense of the unity of South America and the great reality of injustice of the imperialists on the simple Latin farms also felt aggrieved reality on the Indian farmers, and show him the exploitation of workers in the copper mines in Chile, it has led this Guevara trip to the conclusion that economic disparities are rooted in the region, due to capitalism and imperialism, neo-colonialism. Guevara after he got his diploma in 1953, closer relationship more than the poorest and most disadvantaged, then left Argentina in another trip to Latin America, where he discussed with some leftist exiles the communist ideas, then Guevara felt that the only remedy is a global revolution. Not only did the role of spectator, but moderated by the revolution.

 In 1954, Guevara participated in the resistance to the military coup orchestrated by the CIA in Guatemala under the government of Jacob Orpens this coup has helped spread radical ideology Guevara. While he was living the Guevara in Mexico in 1955, he met with Raul Castro exile with his friends, where they were preparing for a revolution, where they were waiting to get out of Fidel Castro from his prison in Cuba, and the latter recruited Guevara as a doctor in the mission, which will liberate Cuba supported the dictatorial regime by US United where he was supporting the dictator Vogheincio Tatsyana in 1956, Guevara prison in Mexico with Fidel Castro and a group of Cuban rebels, and released two months later, while in 1957 the gangsters Havana, capital of Cuba, has been swept and shot down the dictatorship Battista, here starred Guevara, where he was promoted to his second in command.

Guevara government positions in the wake of the Cuban Revolution

 Guevara has a number of key roles in the new government, including

1. reconsider the appeals and death squads.

2. Basis of agrarian reform laws.

3. served as Chairman and Director of the National Bank

4. Also worked as chief executive of the Cuban armed forces.

5. ambassador delegated to international bodies, especially the United Nations.

 But Guevara was not composed with the political life disappeared, and sent the 1965 message to Fidel Castro, in which he wrote: I feel I have completed what I have of the duties I have had the Cuban Revolution for this commit you and I commit my comrades, officially I make my resignation from the party leadership and from my post as minister and from the rank of commander and Cuban my nationality.

Africa

 Guevara decided to venture to Africa in 1965 to offer his knowledge and experience as an expert in guerrilla warfare to the ongoing conflict in the Congo has Guevara inciting the first revolutions in the Congo, where he failed because of incompetence, intransigence and infighting between local Congolese forces as well as the lack of cooperation of the African revolution heads the climate and the different and language, and ended up  jeevara  convalescence in a hospital in Prague to recuperate, and there are visited by Castro to hope for a return Guevara was hesitant about returning to Cuba, because Castro spread his message to the audience, which was "a farewell message" and that it should be deployed only in the event of his death .

Bolivia

 In Bolivia did Guevara project was intended to create an armed Bolivian movement, but to assemble rows to confront the American tendency exploited to the revolutions of the continent's countries, and since the beginning of 1967, Guevara found himself alone with his  twentieth fighters confronted Army units equipped with weapons, led by the CIA, but he was forced to fight the battles Early

Guevara's plan to ignite a revolution in Bolivia failed, and it was for the following reasons

. It was expected to deal only with the Bolivian army, which was poorly trained and equipped. Instead, Guevara was not aware that the US government has sent a team of CIA commandos from the special forces division activities and other activists to Bolivia to assist in counter-insurgency efforts

. Guevara had expected assistance and cooperation from the local dissidents which did not happen

. Contact devices provided to him by Cuba were flawed, and thus became the fighters are not able to communicate with Cuba did not drop any supply them, leaving them isolated and trapped

Guevara's capture and execution

  Was arrested Guevara, after admitting two correspondents of the revolution under the pressure of torture that Guevara is the leader of the revolution, and then started to chase someone Guevara, and the Department of Guevara forces to accelerate progress, and under these difficult conditions suffered Guevara to crises severe asthma which facilitated the chase and look it up process , on October 7 informed the informant's location, Guevara and his Bolivian troops at camp valley guru, and the Bolivian army forces, consisting of 1,500 people surrounded Guevara group consisting of 16 people, Guevara and wounded and captured while he was trying to lead the band with "Simon Cuba Sarabia was injured Guevara twice when his gun became useless shouted "Do not shoot! I am Che Guevara, and equate more alive than dead. After being captured Guevara was transferred to a school building in the village of La Higuera and rejected Guevara to be interrogated by Bolivian officers, then Bolivian President Rene Barrientos ordered the killing of Guevara, were orders not to bring fire to the heart or head to prolonged period of agony was the executioner named Mario Tiran sergeant half-drunk in the Bolivian army and moments before the execution of Chi Guevara said the executioner, "I know you have come to kill me shoot you coward that you will not kill the only man. Tiran frequency, then fired his rifle mechanism half, to infect Guevara in the arms and legs, and then Guevara fell to the ground and appeared to bite his wrists strap to avoid yelling, and then several more shots were fired, resulting in a fatal injury in the chest at 1:10 pm, where Felix Rodriguez is fired randomly until it seems that Guevara had been killed in a clash with the Bolivian army. Guevara was wounded nine shots in total, this included five times in the legs, once in the right shoulder and the right arm, and once in the chest, one shot in the throat.

 Bolivian authorities refused to hand over his body, or the definition of a place of his grave so as not to become a place of pilgrimage for the rebels from all over the world, but in late 1995 revealed the general Bolivian retired Mario Vargas Jon Lee Anderson, author of the book (Che Guevara: Revolutionary life), that the body of Guevara is located near airstrip in Vallegranda, and was the result of an international search f
or the remains, which lasted more than a year, in July 1997 a team of geologists Cuban and Argentine forensic discovery of the remains of seven bodies in two mass graves, including one man amputated hands (like Guevara), the Bolivian government with Interior Ministry officials have subsequently identify the body of Guevara through the teeth where it was completely identical to mold plaster teeth Chi has been working in Cuba before his trip Congolese, the clincher was when Argentine Alejandro Anchaorregoy found anthropology legitimate internal pockets blue jacket found next to the body was severed hands on a small bag of pipe tobacco, Nino de Guzman, commander of the helicopter Bolivian plane had given Che a small bag of tobacco, later pointed out that it was "has serious doubts" at first and "thought the Cubans would find any bones are old and call it the name Chi, "but said," after hearing about the tobacco bag I have no doubt that he is, and in 1997 and after a long search they buried the remains of Guevara and six of his fellow fighters with military honors, at the shrine, which was built specifically in the city of Santa Clark .

 The immortal words of Guevara

 I'm not an editor, the editors do not exist, peoples alone are liberated itself. I felt pain on my face every slap directed to the oppressed in this world, wherever he found injustice this is my homeland . I do not care where and when I will die as much as I'd like to stay home. Revolutionaries filling banging the world so that the world does not sleep weighed on the bodies of the poor. The dark and are you the way, if you did not burn it and I will light the way. We will not have what we live for it . if we are willing to die for him.

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