Long Lives Che Guevara
...he intent to pursue a career in medicine, willing to find a cure for his own illness. The crisis in Argentina and the Spanish Civil war, as well as the rule of Juan Peron, helped to shape Che when he was young. These events tinted his views against the supposed democracy in the parliament and the current national beliefs concerning the military. Che grew to hate the concept of capitalism and more than anything he passionately opposed United States global influence and is reflected moreover when he tells his wife that he joined the expedition for Cuba’s revolution “ because it was part of the fight against Yankee imperialism and the first stage of the liberation of our continent”. During his time when he studied medicine at Buenos Aires University, he was interested in participating and being a member of a revolutionary student movement, or to stay up to date on political issues. Aside from his time spent pursuing medicine, Che’s whole life was spent pushing revolutionary ideals and actions. In 1948 he made a long trip of around four thousand miles long to the northern regions in Argentina to explore and encounter with indigenous tribes to research their life conditions. In 1951 he makes another one with his best friend Alberto Granado and went from the Chile’s Andes through three more South American countries ending in Venezuela. In 1953 he ended his doctoral studies in dermatology in Bolivia while he was part of the worker reforms from his country and experiencing the National Revolution in Bolivia which he was interested. He went to Guatemala to work for near a year, where he received his nickname “Che” which in Argentina is a slang word for “buddy”. In 1954 he went to Mexico City to work in the General Hospital were he met a Peruvian Marxist Hilda Galdea, which in time, was going to be his wife and lately would have their only daughter Hilda. Through Galdea, Che meets Fidel Castro and his brother, both of them with revolutionary thoughts, and because of that, they had been exiled from Cuba and found refugee in Mexico. After a long conversation with Ernesto, Fidel exposed his ideas of going back to Cuba to make a revolution and overthrow the regime of General Fulgencio Batista which by that time was under his dictatorship; thus Guevara got interested in being part involved in the invasion plan and since then it has been known as the “26th of July Movement”. In 1956, Castro and Guevara departed with over 80 guerrillas in the yacht Granma, in their way to Cuba with Che being the only non-Cuban aboard. When they disembark in Cuban lands they were attacked by Batista forces and just 16 survived including Che, and both Castro’s, they led to the Sierra Maestra mountains to heel theirs wound and think of a new strategy since they had failed in their first attempt. They slowly gained power and strength and between months past they were getting bigger and better, recruiting peasants from the urban areas, most of them workers and people who was against Batista’s regime. Guevara exhibited great courage, skill in combat, and ruthlessness and soon became one of Castro's ablest and most trusted aides. In a speech years later he explained how he conquered every men’s’ heart by saying: Hatred is an element of struggle; relentless hatred of the enemy that impels us over and beyond the natural limitations of man and transforms us into effective, violent, selective, and cold killing machines. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy. In the middle of the revolution, “ he personally executed Eutimio Guerra, a suspected Batista informant, with a single shot from his .32 (7.65 mm) pistol. ”. Within months, Guevara rose to the highest rank, major, in the revolutionary army. His march on Santa Clara, Cuba, in late 1958 where his column derai...