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Ernesto

Che Guevara

Revolutionary man
Doctor


Born on 14/6/1928
at Rosario (Argentina)
Deceased on 8/10/1967
at La Higuera (Bolivia)

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Date created 5/3/2009
Last updated on 5/3/2009

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Biography of CHE GUEVARA

  • 14 June 1928Earhart first women to fly across Atlantic

    Ernesto is born in Argentina to a well off family. His father, of Hispanic-Irish origins, is an Architect and his mother is the descendent of a rich Argentinean family.

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  • May 1930Gandhi Leads Revolt in India

    Ernesto becomes ill. The doctors diagnose him with Asthma problems and fragile health, which makes the Guevara family settle in Alta Gracia in the Cordoba province, where the air is drier.

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  • 31 December 1931Empire State Building completed

    Ernesto’s sister Celia is born, at San Isidro, a district of Buenos Aires where the Guevara family lives.

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  • 18 May 1932Russian famine

    His brother Roberto is born.

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  • 1934Night of Long Knives

    The family settles at the Chiquita Villa where his youngest sister is born.

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  • March 1942Nuclear Chain Reaction

    Ernesto goes to the national college Déan Funes where he becomes friends with the brothers Granado and Ferrer.

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  • May 1943Battle of Kursk

    Juan Martin is born, his youngest brother.

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  • 1946Atomic Test At Bikini Atoll

    The family moves to Buenos Aires. Ana Isabel, his grandmother, passes away due to an illness, and Ernesto, who had looked after her for seventeen days, decides to study medicine.

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  • 1947The microwave oven is invented

    Changed because of his ever-fragile constitution, Ernesto launches into his medical studies. While the student anti-Peronist protests wail, Ernesto meets ‘Aunty’, Berta gilda Infante, who is a member of the communist youth. They become friends and she introduces him to Marxist texts.

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  • October 1950Communist Chinese forces invade Tibet

    Ernesto leaves to discover Latin America, passing through Peru, Chile, and Colombia. He is deeply affected by the social misery and decides, following the example of the poet and political man, José Marti, to link his destiny with “the poorest people in the world”.

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  • December 1951

    Ernesto leaves again, this time by motorbike accompanied by his friend Alberto Grandos, to really discover South America. In order to feed themselves and pay for their temperamental Norton 500cc, they take on many small jobs along the way.

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  • August 1952King George VI Dies, Elizabeth crowned Queen

    Ernesto takes up his medical studies again.

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  • 11 April 1953Playboy magazine hits newsstands

    The University of Buenos Aires awards him the title Doctor of Medicine and Surgery.

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  • July 1953

    Ernesto and Carlos Ferrer ‘Calica’ meet in Bolivia where they observe the social changes brought about by the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, who has just come to power. They travel along Peru, the equator, Panama, and Costa Rica where they meet the Cubans, Calixto Garcia and Severino Rosell, then onto Nicaragua, Honduras, Salvador and finally Guatemala.

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  • August 1953

    Ernesto makes friends with Hilda Gadea Ontalia, an economist and ex member of the APRA (Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana) and with Nico Lopez, a Cuban revolutionary, who names him after his surname ‘Che’.

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  • October 1953

    Ernesto Che Guevara presides as the doctor for the worker’s unions and plays an active role in the internal politics of Guatemala, by supporting the democratic and revolutionary government of Jacob Arbenz.

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  • September 1954Segregation Ruled Illegal

    The intervention by the USA and the CIA brings down Arbenz’s government and Che has to leave Guatemala for Mexico, where he works as a photographer and as a doctor.

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  • October 1954

    Hilda Gadea and Nico Lopez join him.

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  • October 1954

    Hilda Gadea and Nico Lopez join him.

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  • 28 August 1955James Dean dies

    Ernesto Che Guevara marries Hilda, who will give him a daughter in 56, Hilda Guevara Gadea.

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  • October 1955

    Living at Maria Antonia Gonzales’ house, as a Cuban exiled to Mexico, Che Guevara meets Raoul and Fidel Castro, who explain to him their reasons behind their fight against the dictator Batista. The two men discuss all kinds of subjects for more than ten hours. From that day on, Che becomes a member of the Revolutionary circle.

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  • April 1956First Trans- Atlantic Telephone Cable

    Ernesto, who is following Cuban revolutionary training in Mexico, is arrested. Not long after his release, he separates from Hilda and reveals his revolutionary activities to his parents.

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  • 2 December 1956

    Che disembarks with 80 men to Cuba and settles the guerrilla revolutionaries in the Sierra Maestra. Che shows that he is an excellent fighter in the anti-Batista cause.

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  • 1958Explorer I Launched

    Che creates Radio Rebelde, the revolutionary radio station. He actively fights in Sierra Maestra, then in the Sierra del Escambray, and finally, in the Santa Clara battle, which will be decisive for the Revolutionary movement.

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  • January 1959Alaska and Hawaii Admitted to the Union

    On the third Che arrives at Havana, followed by the victorious entry of Fidel on the 8th. His parents, who he has not seen him for six years come to Cuba, followed by Hilda and their daughter who come to live in Havana.

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  • 1 January 1959

    Cuba is liberated and Batista is exiled.

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  • 9 February 1959

    The government gives Cuban citizenship to Che for his services.

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  • 2 June 1959

    Ernesto Che Guevara marries Aleida March Torres, who he met a year earlier. He officially works for the Cuban government, who regularly sends him on assignments. He is sent to Egypt, Soudan, India, Burma, Indonesia, Ceylan, Japan, Morocco, Yugoslavia and to Spain. He takes on the duties of the Head of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, of the Head of Industry and Agrarian Reform, then at the end of November, President of the National Bank of Cuba.

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  • 3 January 1961Y. Gagarin 1st man in space

    The USA ends diplomatic relations with Cuba. Not long after, Che is appointed Minister of Industry and a member of the leading assembly.

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  • 3 January 1961

    The USA ends diplomatic relations with Cuba. Not long after, Che is appointed Minister of Industry and a member of the leading assembly.

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  • 17 April 1961

    1,500 mercenaries armed by the CIA try to embark on the Giron beach in the Bay of Pigs. Three days later they are halted by the Revolutionary army.

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  • 4 August 1961

    Che, at the head of the Cuban delegation during the Amériques de Punta del Este conference, is welcomed by thousands of people who chant, “Long live the Cuban Revolution”.

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  • 20 May 1962first American to orbit Earth

    His son Camilo is born named in honour of his friend Camilo Cienfuegos.

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  • October 1962

    During the ‘October Crisis’ Che commands the troops of Pinar del Rio.

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  • 14 June 1963President Kennedy Assassinated

    His daughter Celia is born.

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  • 19 March 1964The Beatles In America

    His son Omar Perez is born, the son from his relationship with Lidia Rosa Lopez. During this year Che represents Cuba at the UN conference for business and development at Geneva. As the head of the Cuban delegation he also goes to France, Algeria, Czechoslovakia and the USSR for the 47th Anniversary of the October Revolution and to New York for the General Assembly of the UN.

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  • 1965Great Blackout

    At the start of the year, Che travels to China, Mali, the Congo, Guinea, Ghana, Tanzania, Egypt and Algeria again. On his way back, he asks to be discharged of his responsibilities, in order to retake charge of the army for the people of the world.

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  • October 1965

    Che is in the Congo when he learns of the death of his mother.

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  • 3 November 1966First Direct Dial Phones

    He secretly enters Bolivia under the name of Adolfo Mena Gonzalez in order to found the National Liberation Army of Bolivia.

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  • 8 October 1967Che Guevera Killed in Bolivia

    After having been injured and arrested by the Bolivian army, he is executed at 1: 10 in the village school of Higuera.

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  • 18 October 1967

    At the Place de la Révolution, Fidel Castro announces before half a million Cuban people: "You have physically disappeared, but your image and your ideas stay and will stay present in us, because those people will never kill them with bullets”.

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  • 19808-year Iran-Iraq War begins

    Che continues his official visits with the economic mission of Cuba, in the USSR, Czechoslovakia, the FRG and the Popular Republic of China. The USA enacts a commercial embargo on Cuba.

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