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This video tells you how the legendary marxist Ernesto Guevara became "CHE"
Whenever I read history I think of revolution and only one leader comes to my mind though he is not mentioned in any of the textbooks but he is still alive in all peoples mind and even mine. And he is Ernesto Guevara known as “CHE”. Now you all must be wondering who is Ernesto Guevara and why he is called as “CHE”?
Let me tell you the story of CHE Guevara.
Ernesto Guevara was born in a beautiful city of Rosario in Argentina on June 14th 1928
Ernesto was eldest of five siblings of his family
Though suffering from the crippling bouts of asthma that were to afflict him throughout his life, he excelled as an athlete. Which earned him a name ‘Fuser’
In 1951, he took a year off from studies to embark on a trip traversing South America by motorcycle with his friend Alberto Granado.
In this trip Guevara witnessed widespread poverty and oppressed people throughout Latin America, influenced by his readings of Marxist literature, Guevara began to view armed revolution as the solution to social inequality. During his trip he wrote a dairy which was made into a movie entitled as “The Motorcycle Diaries”
After this trip In Guatemala City joined an armed militia organized by the Communist Youth to fight against CIA-sponsored coup attempt.
But later on he had to leave to Mexico.
Ernesto met Fidel Castro, the revolutionary leader who had formed the 26th of July Movement and was now plotting to overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.
Ernesto joins Castro’s revolutionary unit and from their he gets his Nickname “CHE”
CHE the legend which we still remember in our minds , the revolutionary Marxist legend .
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