
Ernesto Che Guevara
1928–1967
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Argentine revolutionary whose image became global iconography — useful for teaching idealism, ideology, and the ethics of political violence.
Story so far
- 1928personal
Born in Rosario, Argentina
- 1952highlight
Motorcycle journey across South America
- 1953work
Receives medical degree
- 1954highlight
Witnesses CIA-backed coup in Guatemala
- 1955highlight
Meets Fidel Castro in Mexico City
- 1956highlight
Granma landing and Cuban guerrilla war
- 1959highlight
Victory of the Cuban Revolution
- 1961work
Bay of Pigs defense and agrarian reform
- 1962controversy
Cuban Missile Crisis
- 1965highlight
Leaves Cuba to spread revolution
- 1967death
Captured and executed in Bolivia
- 1967–presentlegacy
Global iconographic legacy
Life chapters will appear here once the autobiography track is generated.