“Talking to these peasants is like talking to statues. They do not give us any help. Worse still, many of them are turning into informants.”
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Che Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, politician, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
science · Argentine revolutionary (1928–1967) · politician · physician · poet · diplomat · essayist · revolutionary · partisan · military personnel · writer · opinion journalist · also Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara, El Che, Che, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, Guevara
Born 14 June 1928 · Died 9 October 1967 · Q5809
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“s Communist Party, which he characterized as”
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“This is the story of a failure.”
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“we can not liberate, all by ourselves, a country that does not want to fight.”
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“murder should be a lesson for all of us”
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“hungry Indian masses, peasants without land, exploited workers, and progressive masses”
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“accelerated industrialization”
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“must paint itself black, mulatto, worker, and peasant.”
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“a privilege of the white middle class”
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“There are truths so evident, so much a part of people”
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“the social justice that land redistribution brings about”
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Boletines Dependencias: Jesús Ernesto Guevara Villarreal recibe el XXV Premio Nacional de Cuento Efrén Hernández
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El Intransigente: Presentan un proyecto para que Messi reemplace al Che Guevara en Rosario
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Todo Salta Noticias: Proponen reemplazar los sitios que homenajean al Che Guevara por la figura de Lionel Messi
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Lmneuquen.com: Proponen que todo sitio de homenaje al Che Guevara sea reemplazado por la figura de Lionel Messi
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El Comercio Perú: La propuesta que sacude Rosario: quieren que Messi reemplace al Che Guevara en monumentos, plazas y circuitos turísticos de la ciudad
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MARCA: Proponen cambiar los símbolos dedicados al Che Guevara en Argentina, por otros que representen a Leo Messi: “El Che divide, Messi nos une”
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Minuto Neuquen: Polémica en Rosario: proponen reemplazar los homenajes al Che Guevara por reconocimientos a Lionel Messi
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Border Periodismo: Rosario: impulsan que todos los sitios que homenajean al Che Guevara sean reemplazados por la figura de Messi
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Diario TAG: Proponen reemplazar los homenajes al Che Guevara por la figura de Lionel Messi
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Diario Chaco: Rosario: un proyecto propone reemplazar los homenajes al Che Guevara por la figura de Messi
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Periodista Digital: El Che Guevara: el héroe de la camiseta que la historia desnuda
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Radio Mitre: Habló uno de los impulsores del pedido de reemplazar el monumento de Che Guevara por uno de Lionel Messi en Rosario: “Como queremos mostrarnos al mundo”
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La Unión Digital: Polémica en Rosario: proponen reemplazar los homenajes al Che Guevara por la figura de Lionel Messi
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noticiero9.com.ar: Proponen en Rosario sustituir al Che Guevara por Messi en calles, murales y plazas
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Es Nota: Propusieron borrar al Che Guevara en Rosario para reemplazar todos sus íconos por Messi
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gaceta.es: La ciudad argentina de Rosario debate borrar los homenajes en espacios públicos al Che Guevara y sustituirlos...
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Jujuy al día: Descacharrado: hoy en CAPS Che Guevara – barrio 17 Hectáreas
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Fm Cordillerana Junin: Polémica en Rosario: proponen que todos los sitios que homenajean al Che Guevara sean reemplazados por la figura de Lionel Messi
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C5N: Polémica iniciativa en Rosario: proponen reemplazar los sitios que homenajean al Che Guevara por la figura de Lionel Messi
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TN: La llamativa propuesta de un exdiputado para reemplazar los homenajes al Che Guevara en Rosario por reconocimientos a Lionel Messi
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La Gaceta: Polémica en Rosario: proponen reemplazar los monumentos y murales al Che Guevara por la figura de Lionel Messi
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Diario El Norte - San Nicolás: Rosario: buscan reemplazar los espacios dedicados al Che Guevara por homenajes a Lionel Messi - Diario El Norte
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News Mobile rated the claim “Che Guevara interviewed by Neelima Sanyal for AIR” False.
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AP News rated the claim “This picture won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960. It shows a priest giving the last rites to a Cuban farmer, owner of his land. He refused to work for the Castro regime. He died by a firing squad after a trial by Che Guevara that lasted 4 minutes. You will never see this picture on a T-shirt.” False.
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Published “CRISPR–Cas12-based detection of SARS-CoV-2” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 2,579 times.
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Journalist Pablo Daniel Magee reconstitutes the first incursion of Guevara in Bolivia on 3 October 1966, based on top-secret documents kept in the UNESCO protected Archives of Terror in Paraguay
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Photo shows Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara.” False.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Says Bernie Sanders marched with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in Cuba.” Pants on Fire.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A photograph shows Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara executing two women.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows the Obama family in Cuba wearing Che Guevara shirts.” False.
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Published “Global surveillance of trends in cancer survival 2000–14 (CONCORD-3): analysis of individual records for 37 513 025 patients diagnosed with one of 18 cancers from 322 population-based registries in 71 countries” in The Lancet — cited 4,341 times.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A photograph shows John Lennon and Che Guevara playing guitar together.” False.
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Published “SoilGrids250m: Global gridded soil information based on machine learning” in PLOS ONE — cited 3,838 times.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows President Obama holding a Che Guevara t-shirt.” False.
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19682 items
The Cuban economy was remodeled, inspired by Guevara's arguments in the Great Debate, from years earlier
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By artist Jim Fitzpatrick, became a universally merchandized and objectified image, found on an endless array of items, including T-shirts, hats, posters, tattoos, and bikinis, contributing to the consumer culture Guevar
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Died 1967-10-09.
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“Words that do not match deeds are unimportant.”
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“In order to know about the illnesses of society, you have to know what men are suffering from, how they suffer.”
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“The victory of the Cuban Revolution will be a tangible demonstration before all the Americas that peoples are capable of rising up, that they can rise up by themselves under the very fangs of the monster.”
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“Hej ty i cała twoja wiaraZastyga krew na transparentachJa pamiętam cię tylko ze zdjęciaKomendancie Che Guevara”
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“Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.”
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Precipitated the abandonment of guerrilla warfare as an instrument of Cuban foreign policy, ushering in a rapprochement with the Soviet Union, and the reformation of the government along Soviet lines
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“What is our ideology? If l were asked whether our revolution is Communist, I would define it as Marxist. Our revolution has discovered by its methods the paths that Marx pointed out.”
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“The example of a revolution and the lessons it applies for Latin America have destroyed all coffee house theories; we have demonstrated that a small group of men supported by the people without fear of dying can overcome a disciplined regular army and defeat it.”
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“I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.”
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Calling him "one of ours, perhaps the best" and remarking that Peronism:
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“Hasta la victoria siempre”
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“One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.”
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“Silence is argument carried out by other means.”
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“What are our primary goals? Our greatest goals? The great lines we must follow? From the political point of view, the first thing we want is to be masters of our own destiny, a country free from foreign interference, a country that seeks out its own system of development.”
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“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
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“Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!”
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During Guevara's adventures abroad, the Cuban economy was reorganized on Guevarist moral lines
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19652 items
“Grow up to be good revolutionaries. Study hard to be able to dominate the techniques that permit the domination of nature. Remember that the Revolution is what is important and that each one of us, on our own, is worthless.”
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To foment continental revolutions across Africa and South America, first unsuccessfully in Congo-Kinshasa and later in Bolivia, where he was captured by CIA-assisted Bolivian forces and summarily executed
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(4:47), English subtitles, interviewed by Jean Dumur, video clip Archived 14 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine
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On a visit to Dublin, Ireland, (2:53), English translation, from RTÉ Libraries and Archives, video clip
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Guevara published an article, The Cuban Economy: Its Past, and Its Present Importance, which analyzed the failure of Guevara's economic plans
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And giving a speech in French, from the Algerian Cinema Archive, video clip
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Southern Cross (1961).
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Career landmark: Minister of Industry of Cuba (1961–1965).
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Stressed industrialization and agricultural diversification, minimizing sugar production
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Guevara proposed a four-year plan for rapid industrialization that would create a 15% annual growth rate, and tenfold increase in fruit production
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Awarded Collar of the Order of the White Lion (1960).
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Guevara ordered the construction of the Guanahacabibes camp: a labor camp to "rehabilitate" his employees who had committed infractions at work
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Guevara began promoting the idea of industrializing Cuba, and diversifying Cuba's agriculture
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Awarded Order of the Republic (1959).
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The revolutionary government extended its application to the whole of the republic and those it considered war criminals, captured and tried after the revolution
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“close contact with poverty, hunger and disease”
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Studied at University of Buenos Aires (1948–1953).
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Was a nine-month, 8,000-kilometer (5,000 mi) continental motorcycle trek through South America
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Was a 4,500-kilometer (2,800 mi) solo trip through the rural provinces of northern Argentina on a bicycle on which he had installed a small engine
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Guevara entered the University of Buenos Aires to study medicine
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Born 1928-06-14.
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Awarded Order of Augusto César Sandino.
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Awarded Order of the Southern Cross.
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Awarded Order of the White Lion.
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