Ernesto Che Guevara Research Paper

One mission by Che Guevara was he, “strove to create a proper industrial base and to diminish the economy’s dependence on sugar,” (515). To improve the milk and meat production in Cuba efforts were made to breed a new kind of cattle. This effort failed which resulted in a famine because of this and with the U. S trade embargo the Cuban government began to give rations of daily necessities to citizens, (The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its People). Guevara efforts were too expensive for Cuba causing a crisis. The government, “decided to resolve its crisis by means of a “revolutionary offensive”: first, the nationalization of all services, restaurants, shops, and petty commercial iinstallations... witha production goal of 10 million tons of sugar (516). That goal did not work causing Fidel Castro to offer to resign. Cuba started to become a communist society. In terms of who was in charge and their role in, The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its People state, “Castro was the visible head, the spokesman, and the international strategists while his brother Raul would become more and more the chief of personnel, the head of the armed forces and secret services,”

The U.S. was not justified in invading Cuba through the Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961, because it conflicted with the internal affairs of a sovereign nation. Fidel Castro rose to power through guerilla warfare and Americans hated him because of his perceived communist leanings. Americans were concerned with the Russians aiding the Cubans during the Cold War. As Fidel Castro led Cuba, he instituted a socialistic government that drastically changed Cuba from when the dictator Batista was in office. Castro visited the USA three times during the late 1940’s up to the early 1960’s. The first visit, in 1949, was to New York City on his honeymoon where he studied English and bought a Lincoln car. His second visit, in 1959, after he defeated Batista was public relations tour under the guise of being asked to speak to the American Newspaper Editors conference in New York City. Before the trip he conferred with a public relations firm for how to polish his image. He continually said he was not a communist, “Never was and never will be.” ( page 16, Jim Rasenberger} He ran into the crowds of thousand admiring fans, and developed a love affair with the American people. His third trip, 1960, cast a black shadow over his friendship with the USA, with a venomous United Nations speech coordinated with Soviet premier, Nikita Krushchev. Castro and Cuba was considered the nearest threat to the economic interests of the USA, only 90 miles off shore. The CIA under President Dwight D. Eisenhower began planning an elaborate invasion plan. The CIA plan was supposed to be covert and fool proof, but the battle plans were leaked to Castro who knew about the invasion site and the Guatemala training site of the ‘Brigade’ Cuban exiles. On April 17, 196...

The story of Ernesto Guevara, a child who was born to a well-to-do Argentine family who went on to become a medical doctor sounds like a success story. Ernesto Guevara probably isn’t a name many people recognize, add the word “Che” to the name—Ernesto “Che” Guevara—and many people recognize the name of a famed revolutionary of the 1960’s. Even now, forty-four years after his death, his name and image remain popular. To some Che Guevara is idolized as a man of the people, a freedom fighter for the downtrodden, who gave his life in the struggle to free peoples of the world to live in a “better” society; for others he was a ruthless killer who was willing to die to be a martyr for his cause. This paper will look at the life of Che Guevara and what made him the cult figure in death he could not be in life.

Che Guevara met an undignified death in a dilapidated school house in Bolivia, at the hands of a CIA backed counter revolution. The generation that would see him the most had not been born yet, and many of that generation would not know why this well drawn face is on hats, shirts and posters at Hot Topic. They won't know the face was communism's last best hope, shot down after the imperialist world joined forces to crush the possibility of true communism in the known world.

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna the future Che Guevara was born on June 14 in Rosario in Argentina. At the age of two Che had his first asthma attack, a disease that he had to suffer with right up until he was shot to death by Barrientos’ troops in the forests of Bolivia.

Guevara's work is best known during the period of Cuban Revolution. Looking at his words from interviews, Guevara is not only a good writer, but also a remarkable individual who strongly believe in the common good of the people. In the interview for Guevara by Leo Huberma about the Cuban Revolution, when Huberman asks "what mistakes have you made in your dealings with the U.S.?", he answers "Very few, we believe", "but we hold the firm conviction that we have acted for our part in accord with the right, and that we have responded to the interests of the people in each of our acts. The trouble is that our interests, that is, those of the people, and to the interests of the North American monopolies are at variance". (Guevara) In his answer, he repeats the word of "interests" which reflects his emphasis on it. Purely from his words, it is clearly shown that he is an ambitious person who has a explicit goal. He has great confidence about what he has done, hence he answers "very few". Although what he has done probably is not right due to some comments from the scholars, such as the opinion from the journal "the Truth about the Che Guevara" that "He helped free Cubans from the repressive Batista regime, only to enslave them in a totalitarian police state worse than the last". (Totten) Totten gives people another perspective of Che Guevara, and disagree with his actions in Cuban Revolution. Totten thinks his actions don't help Cubans at all, but instead he "enslaves" them which makes the situation worse. However, regardless of the the feasibility of his actions, his intention was good that he wanted to help the Cuban in favor of their interests. What makes a person a hero is not necessarily the work he has done, but is more determined...

A student of Che’s legacy says that talking about Guevara “obligates one to argue with neutrality and a cold head that he has been invested into more than one current of leftist belief. Wether it is those who look up to him folkloric-ally as an inoffensive figure who calms consciences through a series of compensating fantasies or those who question him for his “focus of extreme-leftism” (Kohan 11). It is like this that Che can be seen as a polemic character, who allows one to dig deeper into his very own theoretical postures. Though what he started seems to have ended violently, there is no intention of that in Che’s initial plans. It is clear that he intended to contribute to a socialism stemming from Latin American roots, a socialism that can take care of the multiple stages of human development in society (Cabero). Wether or not one likes Che, it i...

Ernesto Guevara Iconic Status Aged twenty-four, Ernesto Guevara pens a regular letter home to Rosario, Argentina from his flat in Mexico. It concludes: "Things are moving with tremendous speed and no one can know, or predict, where or for what reason one will be next year"[1]. This, perhaps, is one indication of the mans legendary appeal - not as a hero of socialism or political ideologist, but as a free-spirited and non-fictitious adventurer. After all, how many of us could end our letters with the same thrilling poignancy, at any age? Further still, how many of us manage to more then dream of exploring the sprawling sceneries of our home-land as Guevara did in 1951 (from Buenos Aires to Venezuela)?

During the chaos of the L.A riots, many people were hurt or even killed. But one particular man, Fidel Lopez, was able to survive an assault that left him with injuries that would change his life forever. Years after the attack, Lopez was unable to support his family financially and was forced to live his life uncomfortably with scars and health issues. Lopez shouldn’t have to suffer because of what other people did to him. He deserves justice, compensation, and a sincere apology. To this day, Lopez experiences pain from his wounds and nightmares of the past. He shouldn’t have to go through troubling times for doing nothing wrong.

One of Mao Zedong’s motivations for beginning the Cultural Revolution was his view that a cutting-edge bureaucratic ruling class had surfaced because of the centralized authoritarian nature of the political system, which had little hope for popular participation in the process of economic development (The Chinese Cultural Revolution revisited). The motivations of Fidel Castro, on the other hand, were different in that he wanted all people of all classes to be equal. The notion that the poverty-stricken could live a life equal to all other humans was an immense sense of happiness and