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Guevara,
Che, real name Ernesto Guevara (1928-1967), Latin American guerrilla
leader and revolutionary theorist, who became a hero to the New Left radicals
of the 1960s. Born into a middle-class family in Rosario, Argentina, Guevara
received a medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires in 1953.
Convinced that revolution was the only remedy for Latin America's social
inequities, in 1954 he went to Mexico, where he joined exiled Cuban revolutionaries
under Fidel Castro. In the late 1950s, he played an important role in Castro's
guerrilla war against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, and when Castro
came to power, he served as Cuba's minister of industry (1961-1965). A
strong opponent of U.S. influence in the Third World, he helped guide the
Castro regime on its leftward and pro-Communist path. The author of two
books on guerrilla warfare, Guevara advocated peasant-based revolutionary
movements in the developing countries. He disappeared from Cuba in 1965,
reappearing the following year as an insurgent leader in Bolivia. He was
captured by the Bolivian army and shot near Vallegrande on October 9, 1967.
