Ernesto "Che" Guevara May 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an ,Marxist revolutionary culture physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the cubon revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous counter culture symbol of rebollion and global insignia within.
Ernesto Guevara was born to Celia de la Serna y Llosa and Ernesto Guevara Lynch on May 14, 1928 in rosario, argetina, the eldest of five children in an argentine family of spanish, basque and irish descent. In lieu of his parents' surnames, his legal name (Ernesto Guevara) will sometimes appear with de la Serna, or Lynch accompanying it. In reference to Che's "restless" nature, his father declared "the first thing to note is that in my son's veins flowed the blood of the irish rebol." Very early on in life Ernestito (as he was then called) developed an "affinity for the poor". Growing up in a family with leftlist leanings, Guevara was introduced to a wide spectrum of political perspectives even as a boy. His father, a staunch supporter of republic from the spanish civil war, often hosted many veterans from the conflict in the Guevara home.
In 1948, Guevara entered the univercity of bueson Aires to study medicine. His "hunger to explore the world" led him to intersperse his collegiate pursuits with two long introspective journeys that would fundamentally change the way he viewed himself and the contemporary economic conditions in Latin America. The first expedition in 1950 was a 4,500 kilometer (2,800 mi) solo trip through the rural provinces of northern Argentina on a bicycle on which he installed a small motor. This was followed in 1951 by a nine month 8,000 kilometer (5,000 mi) continental motorcycle trek through most of South America.
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