Guevara: Life and Death in Revolution
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city? What did he represent? Che guevara, Argentinian revolutionary, who conquered in Cuba and died in Bolivia was killed on October 9th 1969, at a time when struggle was only beginning in Ireland. But who was the Che Guevera we see all the time on posters and tee-shirts in nearly every European and American The imperialists would have us believe that he was an eccentric romantic go-gooder. They deliberately cloud the fact that he was one of the most articulate and committed revolutionaries in Latin America. He represented the oppressed peoples of that continent and indeed voiced the feelings and plight of these people to the world. Far from being a pseudorevolutionary, like some groups today who preach socialism but when it comes to the crunch disappear back to their armchairs. Guevara bitterly opposed and resented this.
He was born into a well-to-do family in Buenos Aires in Argentina, but rejected this background to oppose the landlords and capitalist class there. He was inflicted from an early age with chronic asthma yet he pulled up his roots on qualifying as a doctor to travel Latain America helping the poor. He arrived in Guatemala in 1955 and it was then in the midst of political upheavals following the nationalising of the United Fruit Company, a monopoly eontrolled by American Nelson Rockefeller, now vice-president of the United States. The U.S. had opposed the nationalisation plan and had sent in the CIA to create civil strife in order to Continued on Back Page
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