Ernesto Guevara

"Che, alive as they never wanted you to be." Ernesto Guevara De La Serna was born on May 14,1928 in Rosario Argentina. “Che” as they call him served alongside Fidel Castro as one of the leaders of the Cuban Revolution.

"Che was the most complete human being of our age." Argentine doctor who abandoned his profession and his native land to pursue the emancipation of the poor of the earth began with a voyage.In 1956, along with Fidel Castro and a handful of others, he had crossed the Caribbean in the rickety yacht Granma on the mad mission of invading Cuba and overthrowing the dictator Fulgencio Batista. Landing in a hostile swamp, losing most of their supplies, the survivors fought their way to the Sierra Maestra. A bit over two years later, after a guerrilla campaign in which Guevara displayed such outrageous bravery and skill that he was named comandante, the insurgents entered Havana and launched what was to become the first and only victorious socialist revolution in the Americas.

Guevara became Castro's chief lieutenant soon after the rebel invasion of Cuba in 1956, in which he proved to be an excelent guerrilla leader.

"In a revolution one wins or dies." On October 9, 1967, Guevara was shot by his captors in a schoolhouse in Vallegrande, Bolivia. In order to prove to the world that he was dead, his executioners took pictures of his corpse and severed his hands for identification purposes.

"Viva la Revolution" More than 30 years have passed, and the dead hero has indeed persisted in collective memory, but not exactly in the way the majority of us would have expected it. Che has become famous in his figure stares out at us from coffee mugs and posters, jingles at the end of key rings and jewelry, pops up in rock songs and operas and art shows.