Che Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967)

Che Guevara was born in the Argentine city of Rosario, which is located in northern Argentina on the famous Parana River.

He was known as an Argentine born Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerilla leader.

His parents were of upper class origin. His father, Ernesto Guevara Lynch, was an entrepreneur and a builder-architect who studied architecture but never received a degree.

Che Guevara attended a secondary school in Cordoba, The Colegia Naciones Dean Funes, from where he went on to study medicine at the University of Buenos Aires in 1948.

In 1953 after graduating, as a doctor in March, Ernesto Guevara sets off to travel through Latin America, he visits Bolivia, observing the aftermath of the 1952 revolution.

Horrified by the hardship and poverty he witnessed in the countries he visited, and the exploitation of the poor by-US-controlled corporations, Che Guevara began to embrace a form of Pan-American Marxism.

Under the influence of Castro, writer Alberto Bayo, and the writings of Mao Tse-Tung, Che Guevara began to form the tenets of his philosophy of guerrilla. Later in 1956, he joined Castro and his brother Raul invading Cuba.

Once the new Cuban government has been installed, Che Guevara served under Castro as an official at the National Institute of Agrarian Reform, President of the National Bank of Cuban and Minster of Industries.

Che Guevara left Cuba in 1966 to sow seeds of revolution in other countries, first in the Democratic Republic of Congo and later in Bolivia.

Guevara was captured by Bolivian troops, with support of the CIA. Che Guevara was executed on October 9, 1967 and his body was buried in a secret grave. He was thirty-nine years old.
Che Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967)

Biography of Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro was born on August 13th, 1926 on his father’s wealthy estate in the small community of Biran in the Oriente region of Eastern Cuba. He is one of the seven children to Angel Castro and Lina Ruz Gonzalez.

His father was from Galicia in North Eastern Spain, himself born to poor peasants working as miners and agricultural workers. He came to Cuba as a volunteer in the Spanish army during the War for Cuban independence.

Fidel was very bright and could read and write by the age of four. He was extremely willful.

He misbehaved so badly at his public school that his parents sent him to a private Catholic school to be disciplined.

Between year 1945 to 1950, Castro studies law and social science at Havana University. He devotes most of his time to political activism.

As he grew older, Fidel became more and more aware that his own life of comfort contrasted sharply with the lives of the three hundred poor families who loved on his father’s farm.

In January 1957, Castro and his group initiate attacks on military garrison and isolated Cuban troops in Sierra Maestra.

In 1952 Fidel Castro becomes the Orthodoxos candidate for a set in the House of Representatives in the elections scheduled for 1952.

In March 1952, however, former Cuban president General Fulgencio Batista overthrows the government of President Carlos Prio Socarras in a military coup and cancels the elections.

In 1959, Batista flees into exile by Castro’s forces paving the way for latter’s rise to power. Castro himself assumes the premiership on February 16, 1959.

On May 1959, Castro creates laws that force plantation owners to give up their land, which is given to the underclass.
Biography of Fidel Castro