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Ernesto "Che" Guevara [a] (14 June 1928 [1] – 9 October 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist.A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
Alberto Korda: Che Guevara, Guerrillero Heroico, March 5, 1960. Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez (September 14, 1928 – May 25, 2001), better known as Alberto Korda or simply Korda, was a Cuban photographer, remembered for his famous image Guerrillero Heroico of Argentine Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.
Original – Portrait of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, taken by Alberto Korda on 5 March 1960, at the La Coubre explosion memorial service. Alt 1: Hand-restored by Adam Cuerden from apparent original of the above. Reason High resolution, really popular image, high quality.
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This building where Che himself had formerly worked served as a backdrop to Fidel's eulogy on October 18, 1967, publicly acknowledging the death of Che Guevara before a crowd of more than a million mourners. José Gómez Fresquet, renowned Cuban poster maker and graphic artist, recalls how on hearing the news of Guevara's death, he immediately ...
Guevara, who had met Lopez previously in Guatemala was invited to meet with Fidel Castro by Lopez. The Castro brothers, Lopez, and Guevara were to be the first volunteers for the expedition. On the evening of July 8, 1954 Guevara and Fidel Castro met in the home of Maria Antonia Gonzalez. The apartment later became a headquarters for the rebels.
In response to the victory by Che Guevara at the Battle of Santa Clara, the U.S.-backed President Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba in the early morning of 1 January 1959. [25] The two Castro brothers with their army arrived on the outskirts of Santiago de Cuba and said their forces would storm the city at 6 P.M. on 1 January if it did not first ...
Aleida Guevara March [a] (born 24 November 1960) is a Cuban physician who is the eldest of four children born to Ernesto "Che" Guevara and his second wife, Aleida March. She is a doctor based at the William Soler Children's Hospital in Havana .