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Subj: Today in History - Oct 09
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On this day in 1967, socialist revolutionary and guerilla leader Che
Guevara, age 39, is killed by the Bolivian army. The
U.S.-military-backed Bolivian forces captured Guevara on October 8 while
battling his band of guerillas in Bolivia and assassinated him the
following day. His hands were cut off as proof of death and his body was
buried in an unmarked grave. In 1997, Guevara’s remains were found and
sent back to Cuba, where they were reburied in a ceremony attended by
President Fidel Castro and thousands of Cubans.
Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna was born to a well-off family in
Argentina in 1928. While studying medicine at the University of Buenos
Aires, he took time off to travel around South America on a motorcycle;
during this time, he witnessed the poverty and oppression of the lower
classes. He received a medical degree in 1953 and continued his travels
around Latin America, becoming involved with left-wing organizations. In
the mid 1950s, Guevara met up with Fidel Castro and his group of exiled
revolutionaries in Mexico. Guevara played a key role in Castro’s seizure
of power from Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and later served
as Castro’s right-hand man and minister of industry. Guevara strongly
opposed U.S. domination in Latin America and advocated peasant-based
revolutions to combat social injustice in Third World countries. Castro
later described him as “an artist of revolutionary warfare.ö
Guevara resigned—some say he was dismissed—from his Cuban government
post in April 1965, possibly over differences with Castro about the
nation’s economic and foreign policies. Guevara then disappeared from
Cuba, traveled to Africa and eventually resurfaced in Bolivia, where he
was killed. Following his death, Guevara achieved hero status among
people around the world as a symbol of anti-imperialism and revolution.
A 1960 photo taken by Alberto Korda of Guevara in a beret became iconic
and has since appeared on countless posters and T-shirts. However, not
everyone considers Guevara a hero: He is accused, among other things, of
ordering the deaths of hundreds of people in Cuban prisons during the
revolution.
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