Che Guevara Ernesto

 October 9, 2022 Mario Terán is the man who fired the shot that killed Che Guevara on October 10th 1967. He was a lieutenant in...

In January 1959, the radio of the Cuban revolutionaries Havana Libre signaled the victory by emitting a popular song by Mikis Theodorakis. The composer...

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by Nancy Scheper-Hughes An Interview with Dr. Jorge González, former Director of the Cuban Forensic Institute in Havana. Fifty years ago ‘Che’ Guevara was captured and...

Guevara, born in Argentina, joined the movement led by Fidel Castro and other Cuban revolutionaries and became a commander in the Cuban Rebel Army. After the overthrow of the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959, he became one of the central leaders of the new workers and farmers government. Guevara held a number of posts,

Fidel: At this moment I remember many things: when I met you in Maria Antonia's house, when you proposed I come along, all the tensions involved in the preparations. One day they came by and asked who should be notified in case of death, and the real possibility of it struck us all. Later we knew it was true, that in a revolution one wins or dies (if it is a real one). Many comrades fell along the way to victory.