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Politician

Childhood

* Ernesto Guevara de la
Serna
was born on June 14, 1928
in Rosario ( Argentina).
*His family had aristocratic
roots
but socialistic ideas a
wealthy
upper-middle class family.
*His father was a
construction engineer.
*Ernesto was the first of
five children.

Early Life
.
1.He
was good at rugby,
swimming,athletics,shooting,f
ootball,golf etc.. in spite of
asthma.

2. He was passionate about

poetry,enthusiastic reader

A teenage Ernesto (left) with his parents and siblings, c. 1944.

Seated beside him, from left to right: Celia (mother), Celia
(sister), Roberto, Juan Martn, Ernesto (father) and Ana Mara.

A complete man!!

Motar cycle diaries

At the end of 1951,
Ernesto set off with his
good friend Alberto
Granado on a trip north
through South America.
They traveled through
Chile, Peru, Colombia
and Venezuela, where
they parted ways.

Ernesto continued to Miami and returned to Argentina from

there.

Ernesto kept notes during his trip, which he subsequently made

into a book named The Motorcycle Diaries. It was made into an
award-winning movie in 2004. The trip showed him the poverty
and misery all throughout Latin America and he wanted to do
something about it, even if he did not know what.

The transform ation period

Chile-1.working conditions of

miners .2.meet with a prosecuted

communist couple.
Machu Picchu-1.poverty2.exploitation
of farmers by landlords
Leperosy colony
It awakened him against injustice by
the U.S

Fdel Castro and cuban revoluton

Ernesto returned to
Argentina in 1953 and
finished medical school. He
left again almost
immediately from
Argentina. In 1954 he went
to Mexico and the following
year he met Cuban
revolutionary leader Fidel
Castro. Castro was
planning a communist
rebellion in Cuba. Guevara
joined Castro's '26th July
Movement' and played a
key role in the eventual
success of its guerrilla war
against Cuban dictator
Fulgencio Batista.

Castro overthrew Batista in 1959 and took power in Cuba. From 19591961, Guevara was president of the National Bank of Cuba, and then
minister of industry. In this position, he travelled the world as an
ambassador for Cuba. At home, he carried out plans for land
redistribution and the nationalisation of industry.

In 1965, Che decided that

he was not meant to be a
government worker, even
one in a high post. His
calling was revolution, and
he would go and spread it
around the world. He
disappeared from public life
and began plans for
bringing about revolutions
in other nations. The
communists believed that
Africa was the weak link in
the western
capitalist/imperialist
stranglehold on the world,
so Che decided to head to
the Congo to support a
revolution there led by
Laurent Dsir Kabila.

The Congo venture was a

total fiasco. Che wanted to
remain and die fighting as a
martyr, but his Cuban
companions convinced him

Back in Cuba, Che wanted to try again for another communist

revolution, this time in Argentina. Fidel and the others convinced him
that he was more likely to succeed in Bolivia. Che went to Bolivia in
1966. From the start, this effort, too, was a fiasco.

He was captured in Bolivia. On October 9, the order was given,

and Che was executed, shot by a Sergeant Mario Tern of the
Bolivian Army. His body was not found until 1997.

W hy did he fail?
Though he was a heroic defender of the poor he

turned to a cold hearted executionary

Lacked vision.
At times he was unsympathetic towards his
fighters
Machiavellian leadership : He said the world is full
of wicked men so one must not be good either..
Incident1-He killed people brutally when he
worked as prosecutory authority in Castros
govermnet
Incident 2-He said If you doubt him hang him

Traits ofleadership
1.As a president of ministry of industry he carried out plans for
land distribution and nationalization of industry
2.Changemaker- gave a new face to cuban revolution
3.Fought for others and faced difficulties to defend others.
4.Good listener
5.Confrontation
6.Broad minded
7.Decisiomaker
8.Open communicator
9.A very good human being
10.Struggler
11.Agreeable