Che Guevara Against Imperialism in Latin America

Argentine-born revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara is famous throughout the world for his commitment to defending international social justice during the mid-20th century. Although he was hated and loved for his guerrilla warfare tactics he advocated in Cuba, Congo and Bolivia, his writings continued to offer insights on world history from an internationalist perspective.

People identify with a sense of social justice, idealism, and rebellion. An Argentine who fights for independence in Cuba, Congo and Bolivia. Guevara is a new human representative without a state committed to international socialism. His published criticisms of capitalism and imperialism reflect an understanding that these two problems and solutions of the 20th century are global.

Che Guevara's Struggle Background
Ernesto Che Guebara was born in Rosario, Argentina in 1928. He studied at home until the age of 9, due to severe asthma. Throughout his life, he loved to read and in adulthood, he had knowledge of subjects that included literature, Latin American poetry, and Spanish, French existentialist philosophy, Marxism, psychology, and archeology.

In December 1952, Guevara rested for eight months from medical school to go to South America with a friend. On his journey he witnessed the general condition of indigenous peoples throughout South America and was particularly moved by the conditions of copper miners in Chile. He linked the problems of the Latin American economy with large penetration by foreign companies.

After graduating in 1953, Guevara continued his journey to the capital of Guatemala, where President Jacobo Arbenz opposed the claims of the United States of America in the fertile land of Guatemala. In this place Guevara met Hilda Gadea, a Perus activist who introduced her to the idea of ​​Mao Zedong. Together they witnessed a coup sponsored by C.I.A to overthrow Arbenz in 1954, while simultaneously dropping Guatemala into a period of political violence for 4 decades.

The Guatemalan coup further convinced Guevara that the main problem of the American Exercise in the 1950s was "Yankee Imperialism". He understood this imperialism as a combined political, military and economic power created by US policy makers and companies and their local collaborators on the economies of the Latin American region. This also convinced him that an armed revolution would be needed to overcome the problem in much of Latin America.

Struggle in Cuba


Guevara and Gadea split after the fall of the Guatemalan government, both of whom sought refuge in their respective national embassies. However, by chance they met again in Mexico City and decided to get married.

It was in Mexico City that Guevara met with Fidel Castro, who had just failed to overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1953. After serving a prison sentence of less than two years, Castro and other Cuban exiles met again in Mexico City. The meeting developed a relationship between Vsdtro and Guevara.

These exiles shared with Guevara their concern for the strength of the United States that enveloped Latin America and planned to take the fight. Finally, on November 25, 1956, eighty-one Cubans and Guevara launched their invasion of Cuba.

Initially, Guevara was trusted as a doctor in the group, but he also proved himself to be an excellent guerrilla warrior, and earned the highest rank among the rebels.

In January 1958 he and his comrades made it to Havana, which marked the victory of the revolutionary forces in Cuba.

During the war, Guevara founded a school to teach guerrilla fighters to read, print pamphlets, and use radio stations. In Cuba, he met Aleida March who became his second wife. He then published the first official history of the Cuban Revolution and popularized the foco guerrilla war, which argued that a small group of committed individuals could create conditions for revolution on a broader scale.

After the war, Guevara served as industry minister and head of the national bank. However, in many publications, his speech was known throughout the world as the face of the Cuban Revolution which made him a loved and hated celebrity.

As a new human prototype, Guevara is motivated by moral incentives and hopes to eliminate money. He also encouraged international cooperation to build a socialist society. Guevara represented humanist Marxism, offering a new possibility for communists who opposed Stalinism.

End of Guevara's Struggle
Although known as a diligent bureaucrat, that position does not suit him. In 1965, Guevara disappeared from Cuba. He calmly organized a guerrilla war for independence in Congo.

Despite leaving his Kuban citizenship in a farewell letter with Castro, Guevara returned to Cuba in March 1966.

Next he launched the last failed guerrilla campaign, hoping to inspire a peasant revolution in Bolivia. His guerrillas fought in their last battle on October 8, 1967 against the Bolivian army who cooperated with C.I.A. During the battle Guevara was captured and executed the following day.

The controversy includes the revolutionary method handed down by Guevara, but his analysis of imperialism as a way to understand the past and the present offers insight into world history from an internationalist perspective, and not a commitment to the state / nation. His ideas and sacrifice continue to inspire the social justice movement. While Guevara's place in world history as a global revolutionary will always be remembered. While his contribution as a social and political thinker continues.