Ernesto “Che” Guevara was an Argentine-born physician who became one of the twentieth century’s most influential revolutionaries and an enduring symbol of internationalism. His travels across Latin America as a young medical student showed him the poverty, disease, and exploitation that US-backed regimes and foreign capital left in their wake. In 1954 he saw the CIA-backed coup that overthrew Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala, and he concluded that imperialism would not give way without organized resistance.

In Mexico he joined Fidel Castro and the 26th of July Movement, sailed on the Granma, and rose from medic to commander in the Sierra Maestra; his victory at Santa Clara helped bring down the Batista dictatorship in 1959. In the revolutionary government he led the National Bank and the Ministry of Industry. He argued that socialism had to build a “new human being,” shaped by solidarity, voluntary labor, and political education rather than material incentives alone. 

Che saw the struggles of Asia, Africa, and Latin America as one fight against a common enemy. He brought that view to the United Nations, to Algiers, to the Tricontinental, and finally to the battlefields of the Congo and Bolivia, where he was captured and executed in October 1967 in an operation backed by the CIA. His legacy is often flattened into a famous face on a t-shirt, but it remains a demanding call: that internationalism be practiced, not proclaimed, and that the struggle against imperialism belong to all oppressed people wherever it is waged.

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