3. Profile….
Name : Ernesto Rafael Guevara
De La Serna
Born: 16th June,1928
Birth place: Rosario, Argentina
Race: Hispanic
Religion: Atheist
Field: Revolutionary
Famous for: Symbol of revolution
4. Family….
Father: Ernesto Guevara Lynch
Mother: Celia De La Serna
His family was liberal, anti Nazi, and
not very religious.
5. Childhood….
He was the eldest of five children in the
family.
Around the age of 2, he developed asthma, a
condition from which he suffered his entire
life.
He was an avid rugby union player and
earned himself the nickname “Fuser”
His schoolmates nicknamed him
“Chancho”(pig), because he rarely bathed,
and proudly wore a weekly shirt.
7. Earlydays….
He was passionate about poetry, especially
that of Pablo Neruda and John Keats.
He was an enthusiastic reader, with interests
including Carl Marx and William Faulkner.
Additionally he enjoyed the works of
Jawaharlal Nehru, Vladimir Lenin, Robert
Frost and Franz Kafka.
9. Education….
Che changes so many schools as his family
moved from place to place.
In 1948, he entered, the University of Buenos
Aires to study medicine.
In 1953, he graduated from the university,
where he was trained as a doctor.
10. The Motorcycle Diary..
On December 1951 Che and his partner
Alberto Granado took a trip to South
America by a motorcycle with the final goal
of spending a few weeks volunteering at the
San Pablo Leper colony in Peru.
15. Guatemala
On July 7, 1953, the journey continues again to
Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica,
Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.
After witnessing American intervention in
Guatemala in 1954, Che realigned and
become convinced that the only way to bring
about change way by violent revolution.
On July 1955, he met Fidel Castro.
16. July 26 movement….
On 2nd December, 1956 an organized
group of 82 revolutionaries including Che
and Castro landed in Cuba and launched
a guerilla war against the hated Batista
regime. Castro make Che, the
commander.
On 1-2 January 1959, the fall of the hated
Batista regime, who was a US puppet
considered by Che.
17. After the revolution…
On June 2, Che married Aleida March
He travelled Africa, Asia, Yugoslavia
On July 15 he flies to Japan and visit
Hiroshima.
On October 7, he became the head of the
industry department of Cuba.
On November 26, he is named president
of the national bank.
19. Guerrilla warfare….
“Guerra de guerrillas” is a book written by
Che, about his fighting days.
From October 21 to February 1961, he
travelled to the socialist countries like
China, Czechoslovakia and USSR.
20. Leaving the nationality….
In April 1965, he gave up all his official
positions and his Cuban nationality in front of
Fidel Castro.
In July he secretly travelled to Congo through
Cairo.
On October 3, Fidel Castro showed the letter
Where Che had given up his nationality.
21. Back to Cuba….
In march 1966,he had to leave Congo and
went back to Cuba.
From March to June he travelled through
Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and
Bolivia.
22. The set of the sun….
On March 23,1967 the gorilla defeated the
Bolivian army in their first unexpected
battle.
On October 8, the battle in Quebrada de
yoru took place.
The following day, the Bolivian
government announced that Che had
been executed.
On October 15, Fidel Castro officially
accepted Che’s death.
23. “I know you are here to kill me. Shoot,
coward you re only going to kill a man…”
24.
25. Failure in Bolivia….
Working class Bolivians were happy with the
capitalism.
The hungry eyes of common people made
him mad.
It was quite impossible to get the victory of
socialist revolution in a foreign country.
Without food and medicines for a year
wandering in jungles, made the guerillas half
dead.
26. The sun still shines….
He is the lord of modern revolution.
He was god for the common poor people.
The icon of anti capitalism & social liberation.
Hero of third world socialist nations.
The greatest inspiring leader for the youths of
all time.
His holy sacrifice.
27. A saint or sinner….?
Che was always known to be a strict
disciplinarian and he was almost known to be
tyrannical, but that is how one should be
when one is a warrior of a revolution.
Somebody describes Che as “the killing
machine”, but from my point of view he just
followed Gandhijee’s words “do or die”.
28. A man, many qualities
A great revolutionary
A true politician
An awesome author
A kind hearted physician
A military theorist
An inspiring leader of world history
29. Autobiography & biography….
Guerrilla warfare Che Guevara
Manifesto -- David Sanderson
The motorcycle diaries Che Guevara: a
revolutionary life
-- Jon Lee
I, Che Guevara
-- John Blackthorn
36. It’s the time to think….
Capitalism has killed650000000
people.
Che tried to make us safe from the evil
capitalism.
The time has come again
Its time to stop it……..
I wonder…..how,,,,