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- Guevara had a particularly keen interest in guerrilla warfare, with a dedication to foco techniques, also known as focalism (or foquismo in Spanish), which is vanguardism by small armed units, frequently in place of established communist parties, initially launching attacks from rural areas to mobilize unrest into a popular front against a sitting regime.
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Oct 9, 2020 · Today’s posting features National Security Council memos, CIA field reports, and other documents that follow several strands of the story, from Guevara’s ill-fated campaign in Bolivia, to La Paz’s request for U.S. help in creating a “hunter-killer” team to “ferret out guerrillas,” to reports of Che’s last conversation and ...
Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second-in-command, and played a pivotal role in the two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime. [8] After the Cuban Revolution, Guevara played key roles in the new government.
- Early Life and Motorcycle Diaries
- Cuban Revolution and Fidel Castro
- Training Forces in Africa and Bolivia
- Execution and Legacy
- Sources
Guevara was born in Rosario, Argentina on June 14, 1928. The oldest of five children in a genteel, middle-class family, his liberal parents—especially his mother, Celia—were political activists. Guevara’s asthma led the family to relocate near Cordoba when he was a boy, where the drier climate lessened his attacks. And while he participated in spor...
Following the conflict, Guevara fled to Mexico City where he married Hilda Gaeda, and, in 1955, met rebel leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, who were planning their own armed revolution to overthrow the governmentof Cuba’s dictator Fulgencio Batista. Guevara said his first discussion with Castro centered on world politics, according to Companero: The L...
Guevara headed for the African Congo in 1965, to support and train Laurent Désiré Kabila-led Congo rebels. The liberation attempt failed miserably, and Guevara soon returned in secret to Cuba, before being advised by Castro to travel to Bolivia, where he joined guerrilla rebels in an effort to overthrow René Barrientos. A lack of local support, the...
On October 8, 1967, the Bolivian Rangers captured Guevara, and, on October 9, he was executed in La Higuera on the order of the military’s high command. According to The New York Times, a CIA officer was present for Che’s execution, although the operative later said the CIA wanted him alive. Photos of Guevara’s slain body were made public and his h...
"Che Guevara’s Fiery Life and Bloody Death," The New York Times "Che Guevara (1928 - 1967)," BBC “The Death of Che Guevara: Declassified,” The National Security Archive, The George Washington University Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara, by Jorge G. Castandeda
4 days ago · Che Guevara (born June 14, 1928, Rosario, Argentina—died October 9, 1967, La Higuera, Bolivia) was a theoretician and tactician of guerrilla warfare, a prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution (1956–59), and a guerrilla leader in South America.
- Che Guevara was a prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution (1956–59) and a guerrilla leader in South America who became a powerful symbol...
- Che Guevara was the eldest of five children in a middle-class Argentine family of leftist leanings. He was an excellent athlete and scholar. Before...
- Che Guevara expounded a vision of a new socialist citizen who would work for the good of society rather than for personal profit.
- In October 1967 the guerrilla group that Che Guevara was leading in Bolivia was nearly annihilated by a special detachment of the Bolivian army aid...
- Che Guevara was secretly buried after he was killed in Bolivia in 1967, but in 1997 a skeleton that was believed to be his and the remains of six o...
the few survivors of Che’s Bolivian campaign. This edition has been authorized and revised by the Che Guevara Studies Center to include for the first time Che’s corrections and his suggestions for . further improvements to the text. Published in association with the Che Guevara Studies Center, Havana. Other diaries by Che Guevara
Guevara's aim was to export the Cuban Revolution by instructing local Simba fighters in communist ideology and strategies of guerrilla warfare. The incompetence, intransigence, and infighting of the local Congolese forces are cited by Guevara in his Congo Diary as the key reasons for the revolt's failure. [17]
Jun 14, 1999 · 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 ...
