Labels:text | human face | person | man | clock OCR: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Guevara, Ernesto Che Ernesto Che Guevara Resolute and charismatic, Che Guevara was Fidel Castro's right-hand man in the guerrilla war that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959. A theorist as well as an activist, Guevara came to symbolize the radical idealism of the 1960s. He called for armed struggle to bring about revolution throughout Latin America, convinced it was the only way to end mass poverty. A former physician of Spanish-Irish descent, born in Argentina, Guevara joined Castro's campaign in 1956. A strong leftist who published books on guerrilla warfare, he was viewed with mistrust by the United States, especially when he became a key administrator in the new pro- Communist Cuban government. By the mid-1960s Guevara had left Cuba to Ernesto Che Guevara, further the cause of liberation from poverty in Latin-American revolutionary, other countries, and eventually emerged in 1928-67 Bolivia, where he led a team of guerrillas in Santa Cruz. Shot dead by the Bolivian Army before he could bring about the planned uprising, he became a hero to socialist revolutionaries throughout the world. CHRONOLOGY
