Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was born in the year 1928 in Argentina. Shortly afterwards his family left Risario and went to San Isidor. On the 2nd May 1930 Ernesto had his first asthmatic attac, which came back again and again in Ché's live. On that day Ché’s mother went to swim with him, altough the weather was very cold. His parents went with him to the doctor and he said that Ernesto had asthma. He was still young when he started to read Engels, Marx und Freud. Ché hated early military politicians and the army, the capitalist oligarchy, and above all the US-dollar. He did not want to become a middle-class general practitioner.
He lived with Hilda Gadea. She was a Marxist and she indtroduced him to Nico Lopez, one of Fidel Castro's lieutenants. When Arbenz fell, Ché went to Mexico City (September 1954) where he worked in the General Hospital. Hilda Gadea and Nico Lopez went with him. He met Raul and Fidel Castro and realized he found that in Fidel the leader he was searching. He joined other Castro followers at the farm where the Cuban revolutionaries had to finish a course. They were trained by the Spanish republican army captain, Alberto Bayo and his master was Mao-Tse Tung and Ché was elected a leader of class.
Their war games at the farm attracted the police's attention. All the Cubans and Ché were arrested, but relased a month later (June 1956). When Cuba was invaded, Ché went with the invados, first as an doctor, soon as a "Commandante of the revolutionary „army of barbutos". At the triumph of the Revolution Guevara became second only to Fidel Castro in the goverment of Cuba, and the man mainly responsible for communism, but not in the Moscow-style. He was appointed President of the National Bank of Cuba, relased non-communist from of the goverment and worked against two french economists who were called in by Fidel Castro. Ché pushed the Cuban economy very fast into total Communism.
In 1959 he married Aledia March and together they visited Egypt, India, Japan, Indonesia, Pakistan and Yugoslavia. Back in Cuba, he was minister of industry and signed in February 1960 a pact with the USSR which made Cuba free from industrial dependence of the teeth of the US market. He made his own idea of communist philosophy. He was moving away from Moscow towards Mao. His former breach with the Sovjet communism came when, addressing the Organization for Afro-Asian Solidarity at Algiers, he charged the USSR with being a complice of imperialism. He initiated the Tricontiental conference to realize a program of revolution, insurrection, guerilla cooperation in Africa, Asia and South America. He was attacking the North Americas, at the UN as Cuba's representative for imperealist activity in Latin America.
Ché's intransigence, towards capitalists and communist etablishment forced Castro to drop him (1965), not offically, but in practice. He was in various African countries. He returned to Cuba to train for the revolution in Congo, and took a force with 120 Cubans to Congo. His men fought well, but the Kinsha rebels were helpless against the Belgian mercenaries and in autum 1965 he advised Castro to stop the cuban fightings. Ché's final revolutionary adventure was in Bolivia. The attempt ended in his being captured by the Bolivian army unit and shot a day later. Ché became a legend and an idol for the revolutionary. 30 years after his death Ché’s myth is still alive. His remains were found near Vallegrande in Bolivia at the end of June 1997. His remains were identified and were returned to Cuba.
I think Ché was one of the biggest revolutionaries.