Character Analysis Of Che Part One

Question: Was Ernesto “Che” Guevara the revolutionary hero as depicted in today’s pop culture, or was he a vicious murderer, obsessed with the destruction of capitalism?

In Mexico he began to organize a guerrilla voyage to Cuba for a violent uprising against Batista authority (Castro, 2009). On December 2, 1956 Castro, joined by 81 other revolutionaries (which included big names such as Che Guevara, and Jesus Montane), reached the Cuban cost. (Castro, 2009). For the next two years Castro helped the Rebel Army organize their forces throughout the entire island. Here is a timeline of events during the two years during the rise of the rebellion (Frank, 2013):

In weeks 9 to 11, the movement we looked at had very similar themes, often regarding things like rebellion and standing up for culture and what a society deems is “right”. We first learned about Che Guevara and how he became an icon to both Latin America and North American culture from Dr Anna Hamling. Her lecture was on the perpective of cultural icons, how people viewed them, and what it took to become an icon. She discussed the ways that people viewed Che, some seeing him as a hero where others saw him as just a tyrant who murdered anybody who got in his way.

The big question that has everyone stuck is was Che Guevara a hero or a villain. Che Guevara was a marxist revolutionary, which is a practice of communism which is not a good thing. Communism leads to dictatorship because you want everyone to share wealthiness, so everyone is equal, no one is being paid more no one is being paid less than anyone else. People can have less money than they had before but everyone is still equal. The bad part is some people are working harder than other people but they still get paid the same, also the people who do what the dictator says can get paid more money from the leader which means they might as well go back to where they started because the leader and the people who does what the leader says have more

The most important sources that this paper will analyze are Che’s personal writings: Diary of a Combatant and Reminiscences of The Cuban Revolutionary War. Both are crucial for understand Che’s transformation from a troop doctor to a guerilla commander. To understand Che’s influence on the Cuban Revolution it is important to understand Che’s background. Che was born Ernesto Guevara de la Serna in Rosario Argentina on June 14, 1928. Che’s upbringing was modest and his parents were educated and a part of the middle class..

While in Cuba, the group became more aware of the sentiment and that revolution continues through propaganda images of the revolutionary leader, Che Guevara; these images portray him as a God.

In 1947 Fidel began the Guerilla war against Batista. He went to the Dominican Republic to join an expedition to try to overthrow Dictator Rafael Trujillo. The attempt failed before it even started, but this didn’t stop Castro’s passion for reform. Castro followed his political desire as a candidate for a seat in the Cuban parliament. The revolution led by General Flugencio Batista

While still idolized by many, Che was far from a hero or a just man. Through the annals of history there have always been false idols who have abused power. The individuals who lead these great attacks on not only people that they attack but the good of humanity as a whole. Che Guevara was a leader of the Cuban Revolution who still represents hope and anti-oppression for many. Despite his later vile and atrocious acts he is still mistakenly viewed as an icon a facade of what is imagined of him to be. The reality is that he committed evil and impermissible acts “This is a man who banned music, burned books, hated blacks, was an anti-Semite, murdered those who disagreed with

The film Che is about the man, Che, who joined forces in Cuba and start a revolution to end of the Batista regime in Cuba. The men that fought in the revolution were in bad conditions because they were on a really hard and dangerous combat, most of them got hurt during this fight. Also, the film shows that a lot of peasants were tortured and murdered by Batista’s army because of two men that decide to betrayal to the revolution and one of them was the messenger of the Rebel Army. Indeed, I think that Che became a hero in Cuba because he was a doctor but during the revolution, he was the commander and the one who protect and gave Cuba the freedom again and everyone respects him and him made sure that everyone was doing the right thing.

This chapter will serve to outline the Cuban revolution and its impact on social movements in Latin America and around the world. The two key leaders of the Cuban Revolution was Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Their rhetoric is still regarded as inspiration to many around the world. This chapter will look at their goals and mobilization of the Cuban Revolution with emphasis on the importance of their discourse. The symbolism of Che Guevara that the revolution brought to the forefront of the imaginations of young people is important to understanding the influence the Cuban Revolution had on future revolutions. The Cuban Revolution and the writings and speeches that it produced are filled with instructions for future movements. It is these

Che Guevara is one of the most well-known Latin American revolutionaries in history. Che helped Fidel Castro overthrow the government in Cuba because he believed if he were in power he could build a successful Marxist society . However before joining Castro Che was a physician. During Che’s journey across South America he came across the indigenous population of the countries he went through. Through his encounters with them Che got the idea that they were an unsophisticated, population. An example of Che experiencing this is when he is making water by melting ice and he noticed that during the “spectacle” of drinking his “strange brew…not a

Then, in 1956, “Castro and 81 other men sailed on the yacht “Granma” to the eastern coast of Cuba, where government forces immediately ambushed them. The estimated 18 survivors, including Castro, fled deep into the Sierra Maestra Mountains in southeastern Cuba with virtually no weapons or supplies” (“Fidel Castro” History). The same website article then states that in 1957, Castro met with new revolutionists critical of Batista. With these new supporters, he continued to rebel by using new and improved guerilla war tactics, and they began winning both minor and major battles against Batista’s regime. As stated by Castro himself, “We’d take out the men in the front, attack the center, and then ambush the rear when it started retreating, in the terrain we’d chosen.”

Upon his release, Castro went to Mexico where he spent the next year organizing the "26th of July Movement", which was based on the date of the failed Santiago de Cuba barracks attack. On December 2, 1956, Castro and the rest his fellow rebels of the 26th of July Movement landed on Cuban soil with the intention of starting a revolution. They were only met with the welcome of heavy Batista defenses, causing nearly everyone in the Movement to be killed. Barely anyone escaped, and those who did which included Castro and his brother Raúl fled the scene to avoid being jailed. For the next two years, Castro continued guerrilla attacks and succeeded in gaining large numbers radical followers. Using guerrilla warfare tactics, Castro became known

Aleida March, the second wife of the late Cuban Revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara, met her future husband in the fall of 1958 in the Escambray Mountains in Southern Cuba in which she described her first impression of the bearded guerilla fighter to a colleague, “I replied somewhat casually that I thought he wasn't bad, and that I found his penetrating gaze rather intriguing. I saw him as an older man” (“Married”). Their marriage would last through the tumultuous years following the Cuban Revolution and would end upon the death of the Marxist Revolutionary during an attempted uprising in Bolivia. Señora March’s description of Geuvara as “an older man” (“March”) fits the personality of a man who not only was aware of his place in the world but

In 1953, after he graduated as a doctor, Ché took off through Latin America but this with a more conscious interest in political education. It was in Costa Rica where he met six Cubans who had participated in their failed assault on the 26th of July 1953 on the presidency