Argentinean Ernesto Che Guevara, who lived only 39 years, was one of the leaders of the Cuban revolutionary movement together with Marxist-revolutionary and politician Fidel Castro.
The particle “Che” in his name, which is a typical form of address for Argentines and means “comrade”, “friend”, was given to him by Cuban partisans.
Yes, we are talking about Ernesto Che Guevara, who lived in the years 1928-1967, whose name was included in the list of 100 most studied personalities in history, and who was distinguished by his left-leaning radical fiction even in his childhood.
He is a poet, athlete, photographer, doctor, traveler, prison warden, guerilla, bank manager, minister, soldier, revolutionary and politician.
The life path of this outstanding personality, whose life was very colorful, later became a source of inspiration and a place of hope for many.
Ernesto Che Guevara is known by most as a revolutionary leader. Although he suffered from asthma until his death, few people know that he was an excellent athlete. This disease did not even stop him from becoming an amateur rugby player.
Another interest of Guevara was chess. He even started participating in local tournaments from the age of 12 after learning to play chess from his father.
This multifaceted personality, who developed an interest in poetry, especially the poems of Pablo Neruda, during his adulthood, showed a penchant for the art of writing poetry popular in Latin America throughout his life.
He was also an avid reader with an interest in many interdisciplinary subjects. His books of interest varied widely, from the adventures of Jack London and Jules Verne, to the experiments of Sigmund Freud and theses on the social philosophy of Bertrand Russell.
Guevara, who developed an interest in photography in his late teens, spent most of his time photographing people, places he visited, and archaeological sites.
Later, to be more precise, Guevara entered the University of Buenos Aires in 1948 to study medicine, finishing his academic life in March 1953 and receiving his diploma on June 12 of the same year. However, historical sources do not have accurate information about whether he completed the necessary clinical training to become a specialist doctor. If he has not completed his clinical training, then it is likely that he is not a medical doctor (“doctor en medicina”) but a practicing doctor (“medico”).
It is also known in history that Guevara went on a long trip to Latin America during his student years. During this visit, this well-known personality, who closely observed the poverty, oppression and powerlessness of the masses and was influenced by Marxism, came to the conclusion that the only solution to economic and social inequalities in Latin America is revolution. His travels made him see Latin America not as a jumble of separate nations, but as a whole body whose salvation could only be achieved through a continental strategy.
In June 1955, Guevara, who met Raúl Castro through his friend Nico Lopez in Mexico, later joined the July 26 movement, which was established to overthrow the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Although it was decided to become the group’s doctor, he participated in military exercises with other members of the movement.
This brave guerrilla, who waged guerrilla warfare against the Batista regime for many years, was later declared a “born Cuban citizen.”
One of the interesting pages from his life was his appointment as the head of Kabana prison. According to the prestigious US weekly magazine “Time”, this prison warden, who did not behave at all fairly while carrying out his duties here, during his six months from January 2, 1959 to June 12, 1959, the Batista regime officials, the BRAC secret service (Buró de Represión de Actividades Comunistas — Service for the Suppression of Communist Movements) was responsible for the prosecution and execution of war criminals and political dissidents.
Later, Guevara, who was appointed to an important position in the National Land Reform Institute, later became the chairman of the Central Bank of Cuba.
Since 1959, this militant personality tried to help revolutionary movements in other countries (Panama, Dominican Republic), but all these revolutions ended in failure.
In 1960, we witness him performing a rescue mission. So, in the same year, we see this rebellious revolutionary helping the victims during the explosion of the gunship “La Coubre”. With the second explosion during the rescue operation, the death toll exceeded one hundred. It is interesting that the Cuban photographer Alberto Corda took the famous photo of this heroic guerrilla at the funeral of those who died in this explosion. It is still not known whether the “La Coubre” incident was sabotage or the result of an accident.
Later, Guevara, as Minister of Industry, helped to make socialism open and decisive in Cuba, and took a place among the leaders of the country.
In the 1961 “Bay of Pigs” operation, Guevara did not participate in the battles, but on the orders of Fidel Castro, he led the military forces located in the province of Pinar del Río in the west of Cuba, where he withdrew the landing force, which had the character of a deceptive maneuver.
One of Guevara’s most scandalous services was his key role in bringing Soviet ballistic nuclear missiles to Cuba, which triggered the Caribbean crisis in October 1962.
Guevara, who headed the Cuban delegation to New York to speak at the United Nations in 1964, later appeared on CBS’s Sunday news program, “Face the Nation.”
Later in life, Guevara embarked on a three-month international tour, during which he visited the People’s Republic of China, the United Arab Republic (Egypt-Syria), Algeria, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Dahomey, Congo-Brazzaville, and Tanzania.
Towards the end of his life, he withdrew from society and then mysteriously disappeared completely. The mystery of his whereabouts in Cuba, where he was seen as a man believed to succeed Fidel Castro, became sensational news as one of the biggest mysteries of 1965. His disappearance gave rise to many rumours.
Pressured by various speculations and rumors about the fate of this already legendary figure, Fidel Castro said in a statement on June 16, 1965 that people could only get information about Guevara when Guevara wanted it.
Later, Fidel Castro revealed an undated letter Guevara had written to him a few months earlier. In this letter, Guevara reiterated his commitment to the Cuban revolution, but expressed his intention to leave Cuba to fight for the revolution in foreign lands. In his letter, he declared that he had decided to leave to fight as a partisan in “new battlefields”, saying that “other nations of the world called for my simple work”. However, he also announced that he had resigned from all positions in the government, party and army, and had renounced the Cuban citizenship that had been awarded to him for the revolution.
During an interview with four foreign journalists, Castro said he knew the missing revolutionary’s whereabouts but would not say so, putting an end to rumors that his old comrade was dead, and declared that Guevara was in very good health. Despite Castro’s statements, at the end of 1965, the fate of the outstanding revolutionary martyr retained its magic as a mystery, and for two years there was no information about his movements or whereabouts.
Just as every beginning has an end, the legend of Guevara, a fighter with a fighting spirit, who experienced tumultuous difficulties throughout his life, also had a sunset. So, on October 9, 1967, he fell into the hands of the Bolivian army in La Higuera, near Vallegrande. According to witnesses who were with him in his last hours, he was executed without trial.
We would like to introduce the readers to Guevara’s sayings, which have not lost their importance even today, and the diaries that he wrote in different historical periods of his life, which have become aphorisms:
When I feed hungry people, they call me a hero, and when I ask them why they are hungry, they call me a communist.
Keep talking behind my back. Because you are not big enough to face me.
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to follow them.
Where the lions are silent, birds and eagles play horses, but they do not know that if the lions break that silence, doomsday will break.
My shoes had six holes, and the tops were always painted.
The greatest enemy of freedom is slaves who are satisfied with their condition.
Maybe nothing went wrong, but nothing stopped me.
You can kill a flower, but never spring.
If one day you see my head bowed, know that my head is bowed to lift someone who has fallen to the ground.
A revolutionary is someone who feels the slap on his face.
You have to love something to do it, and to love something you have to believe in it madly.
A lie is always worse than the worst truth, no matter for what purpose it is told.
I know you came here to kill me. Shoot coward, you will pay only one person anyway (to your killer before your death).
The things we dare not do because they are difficult are actually difficult because we do not dare.
Stand tall and smile. Let them wonder why you’re laughing.
I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
A fighter can lose. The one who doesn’t fight has long lost.
It is more honorable to die fighting than to be captured without fighting.
Wherever he is in the world, I doubt the humanity of the person who does not feel the slap on the face of someone unjustly!
If you don’t have enemies, you don’t have any success in life.
If you are free from all injustice, you are my friend.
You know what’s the worst? Defeat yourself, give up.
Let’s be realistic, let’s ask for the impossible.
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.
Wherever there is an oppressed people, I am there.
Let’s be real, let’s ask for the impossible.
Life does not forgive cowards.
Make choices in life so that the gains are worth the losses.
Always defend the truth in life! Even if no one praises you, you will get rid of your conscience.
I have the right to two things: freedom and death. If I don’t have one, I’ll want the other, because no one can make me a prisoner while I’m alive.
The duty of a revolutionary is to revolutionize.
The biggest mistake of a person is not valuing others more than he should, but valuing himself less than he deserves.
The brotherhood of dogs lasts until a bone is thrown between them.
The only battle you lose is when you refuse to fight.
I was just Ernesto. You simply exist as one. I wanted to be Che myself, if you believe, you will be too.
It is not my victories that give me strength, but my defeats.
He who fights may lose, but he who does not fight has lost long ago.
No matter how different it is, do not interfere with what does not belong to you. Never give up what is yours, no matter how simple it is.
It is easy to deceive an illiterate people.
No matter where and how death comes… If our battle slogans will spread from ear to ear and our weapons will pass from hand to hand, and others will mourn our funerals with the sound of cannons and guns, with shouts of battle and victory, then death is welcome, peace has come…
Don’t let death fool you. Think of the living and raise your forehead fearlessly and think about who you are with, where you are and what is your weapon in the most difficult time.
A lover is not the one who makes you fall in love with his beauty, but the one who gives you the chance to be yourself.
Don’t be afraid to lose, you have to lose something to win something. And don’t forget, you lose when you retreat, not when you lose.
Famous slogans such as “We cannot understand that we have something to live for, without something to die for” are circulating in the languages of almost all countries of the world today…
The rain is communist – it falls equally on everyone, and the wind is capitalist and destroys the weak.
Keep up the good work. Even if the person in front of you doesn’t deserve it, you deserve it.
I didn’t laugh at the poor, I didn’t ignore the rich, I didn’t love the fascists, I didn’t beat the oppressed, I was born a revolutionary, I will die a revolutionary.
Until victory, always.
(Medianews.az)
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