Guevara Ernesto "Che"

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Basic data

  1. June 14, 1928 in Rosario, Argentinien
  2. October 10, 1967 in La Higuera, Bolivien
  3. Politiker, Revolutionär
  4. Kuba

Iconography

Guerrillero Heroico, 1960 (Source: Wikimedia)
A teenage Ernesto (left) with his parents and siblings, c. 1944, seated beside him from left to right: Celia (mother), Celia (sister), Roberto, Juan Martín, Ernesto (father) and Ana María (Source: Wikimedia)
Guevara (right) with Alberto Granado (left) in June 1952 on the Amazon River aboard their "Mambo-Tango" wooden raft, which was a gift from the lepers whom they had treated[46] (Source: Wikimedia)
A map of Guevara's 1952 trip with Alberto Granado (The red arrows correspond to air travel.) (Source: Wikimedia)
A map of Che Guevara's travels between 1953 and 1956, including his journey aboard the Granma (Source: Wikimedia)
Guevara with his first wife Hilda Gadea at Chichen Itza during their honeymoon trip (Source: Wikimedia)
Journey of the yacht "Granma", from Mexico to Cuba (Source: Wikimedia)
Granma survivors in the Sierra Maestra. Fidel Castro stands at center. Che Guevara stands second from left. (Source: Wikimedia)
Guevara smoking a pipe at his guerrilla base in the Escambray Mountains (Source: Wikimedia)
After the Battle of Santa Clara, 1 January 1959 (Source: Wikimedia)
(Right to left) rebel leader Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban President Manuel Urrutia Lleó, and Guevara (January 1959) (Source: Wikimedia)
Televised execution of Colonel Rojas, ordered by Che Guevara. (7 January 1959). (Source: Wikimedia)
Guevara in 1960, walking through the streets of Havana with his second wife Aleida March (right) (Source: Wikimedia)
Che Guevara meeting Josip Broz Tito, during Guevara's 1959 diplomatic travels. (Source: Wikimedia)
Che Guevara visiting Gaza during his diplomatic tour. (1959) (Source: Wikimedia)
Guevara meeting with French existentialist philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir at his office in Havana, March 1960. Sartre later wrote that Che was "the most complete human being of our time". In addition to Spanish, Guevara was fluent in French.[166] (Source: Wikimedia)
Guevara fishing off the coast of Havana, on 15 May 1960. Along with Castro, Guevara competed with expatriate author Ernest Hemingway at what was known as the "Hemingway Fishing Contest". (Source: Wikimedia)
Guevara (left) and Fidel Castro, photographed by Alberto Korda in 1961 (Source: Wikimedia)
Che Guevara in his office as Minister of Industry (in the Hotel Riviera), while being interviewed by Laura Berquist for Look magazine. (1963) (Source: Wikimedia)
Countries Che Guevara visited (red) and those in which he participated in armed revolution (green) (Source: Wikimedia)
Meeting Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in Cairo, 1964 (Source: Wikimedia)
Walking through Red Square in Moscow, November 1964 (Source: Wikimedia)
Guevara returning to Cuba at Rancho Boyeros airport on 14 March 1965. He is received by (left to right) Fidel Castro, Aleida March, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, and Osvaldo Dorticos. (Source: Wikimedia)
37-year-old Guevara, holding a Congolese baby and standing with a fellow Afro-Cuban soldier in the Congo Crisis, 1965 (Source: Wikimedia)
Listening to a Zenith Trans-Oceanic shortwave radio receiver are (seated from the left) Rogelio Oliva, José María Martínez Tamayo (known as "Mbili" in the Congo and "Ricardo" in Bolivia), and Guevara. Standing behind them is Roberto Sánchez ("Lawton" in Cuba and "Changa" in the Congo), 1965. (Source: Wikimedia)
Guevara's 1966 passport featuring him in disguise with a false name (Source: Wikimedia)
Guevara in rural Bolivia, shortly before his death (1967) (Source: Wikimedia)
Guevara shortly before his execution, with CIA agent Félix Rodríguez (left) (Source: Wikimedia)
The day after his execution on 10 October 1967, Guevara's corpse was displayed to the news media in the laundry house of the Vallegrande hospital (photo by Freddy Alborta [es]).        Face     Side angle    Shoes (Source: Wikimedia)
The day after his execution on 10 October 1967, Guevara's corpse was displayed to the news media in the laundry house of the Vallegrande hospital (photo by Freddy Alborta [es]).        Face     Side angle    Shoes (Source: Wikimedia)

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