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- Les autres actions du Che
- Lettre d'adieu du Che à Fidel Castro
- La crise de la Baie des Cochons
- Che Guevara, la chanson en son honneur
- Lettre d'adieu du Che à ses enfants
- English Biography of Ernesto Che Guevara Part 1
- English Biography of Ernesto Che Guevara Part 2
- Biografia di Ernesto Che Guevara - Parte I
- Biografia di Ernesto Che Guevara - Parte II
- Biografía de Ernesto Che Guevara. 1ª parte
- Biografía de Ernesto Che Guevara. 2ª parte.

14th June 1928

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.


May 1930

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.


31st December 1931

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


18th May 1932

His brother Roberto is born.


1934

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


March 1942

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


May 1943

Juan Martin is born, his youngest brother.


1946

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.


1947

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.


October 1950

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”.


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.


August 1952

Ernesto takes up his medical studies again.


11th April 1953

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


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.


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’.


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.


September 1954

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.


October 1954

Hilda Gadea and Nico Lopez join him.


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.