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Che Guevara  ©Che Guevara was an Argentinean-born, Cuban revolutionary leader who became a left-wing hero. A photograph of him by Alberto Korda became an iconic image of the 20th century.

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, known as Che Guevara, was born on 14 June 1928 in Rosario, Argentina into a middle-class family. He studied medicine at Buenos Aires University and during this time travelled widely in South and Central America. The widespread poverty and oppression he witnessed, fused with his interest in Marxism, convinced him that the only solution to South and Central America's problems was armed revolution.

In 1954 he went to Mexico and the following year he met Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. Guevara joined Castro's '26th July Movement' and played a key role in the eventual success of its guerrilla war against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.

Castro overthrew Batista in 1959 and took power in Cuba. From 1959-1961, Guevara was preside

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Che Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967) (full name Ernesto Guevara dem la Serna), was an Argentine-bornMarxistrevolutionary, political figure, and leader of Cuban and internationalistguerrillas. Guevara joined Fidel Castro's revolutionary26th of July Movement, which seized power in Cuba in 1959. After serving in various important posts in the new government and writing a number of articles and books on the theory and practice of guerrilla warfare, Guevara left Cuba in 1965 with the ambition of fomenting revolutions first in Congo-Kinshasa, and then in Bolivia, where he was captured in a CIA/U.S. Army Special Forces-organized military operation. Guevara was summarily executed by the Bolivian Army in La Higuera nära Vallegrande on October 9, 1967.

After his death, Guevara became an icon of socialist revolutionary movements worldwide. An Alberto Kordaphoto of him (shown) has received bred distribution and modification. The Mary

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Bibliography of works on Che Guevara

Ernesto "Che" Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), was an ArgentineMarxistrevolutionary, politician, author, intellectual, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader. His life, legacy, and ideas have attracted a great deal of interest from historians, artists, film makers, musicians, and biographers. In reference to the abundance of material, Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez has declared that "it would take a thousand years and a million pages to write Che's biography."

What follows is an extensive list of English-language works related to Che Guevara, excluding books written by Guevara himself.

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Best-selling biographies

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• Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, by Jon Lee Anderson, Grove Press, 1998, ISBN 0-8021-3558-7
• Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara, by Jorge G. Castañeda, 1st Vintage Books, 1998, ISBN 0-679-75940-9
• Guevara, Also Known as Che, by Paco Ignaci