Main article: Che Guevara

Che Guevara was a key figure in the Cuban Revolution, an uprising that removed the government of General Fulgencio Batista over the island. One of only four non-Cubans sailing with Fidel Castro on the Granma in 1956, he became a rebel Comandante (Major), then, after the victory, was instrumental in cutting Cuba's traditional economic ties with the United States and re-directing the flow of trade to the Soviet Union. Guevara also played a primary role in shaping Cuba's foreign policy, advocating an "anti-imperialist" position and supporting leftist revolutionary movements in Latin America and Africa. Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ... Shortcut: WP:NPOVD Articles that have been linked to this page are the subject of an NPOV dispute (NPOV stands for Neutral Point Of View; see below). ... 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Guerrilla Fighter

Guevara met Fidel Castro and Fidel's brother Raúl in Mexico City where the two were living after having been amnestied from prison in Cuba in 1955. The Castro brothers were preparing to return to Cuba with an expeditionary force in an attempt to overthrow General Fulgencio Batista, who had assumed dictatorial powers following a coup d'état during the 1952 presidential elections. Guevara quickly joined the "26th of July Movement (M-26-7)", named in commemoration of the date of the failed attack on the Moncada barracks that had been the cause of the Castros' imprisonment. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born on August 13, 1926) is the current President of Cuba but on indefinite medical hiatus. ... This article is about the Cuban politician. ... Nickname: Motto: Capital en movimiento Location of Mexico City in south central Mexico Coordinates: , Country Federal entity Boroughs The 16 delegaciones Founded c. ... General Rubén Fulgencio Batista (IPA: , ) y Zaldívar (January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician. ... The 26th of July Movement (Spanish: Movimiento 26 de Julio; M-26-7) was the revolutionary organization planned and led by Fidel Castro that in 1959 overthrew the Fulgencio Batista government in Cuba. ... The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ...

The Castro brothers, Guevara, and approximately 80 other guerrillas departed from Tuxpan, Veracruz, aboard the cabin cruiser Granma in November 1956. Guevara was one of only four non-Cubans aboard. The landing was planned to coincide with an uprising, organized by Frank País, in Santiago de Cuba on 30 November, but Granma was delayed, and the uprising was suppressed. Shortly after disembarking in a swampy area near Niquero in southeastern Cuba on 2 December, the expeditionary unit was attacked by Batista's forces. In the aftermath of the battle of Alegría de Pío where infantry, air and naval attacks killed three rebels, the unit was dispersed into several small groups that lost contact with each other. Tuxpan or Túxpam (IPA: ) in Nahuatl, the language of the ancient Toltecs, literally means Place of Rabbits. Tuxpan is a city located in the Mexican state of Veracruz. ... Location within Mexico Country Capital Municipalities 212 Largest City Veracruz Government  - Governor Fidel Herrera Beltrán (PRI)  - Federal Deputies PRI: 6 PAN: 11 PRD: 2 Convergencia: 2  - Federal Senators PRD: 1 PAN: 1 Convergencia: 1 Area Ranked 11th  - State 71,699 km²  (27,683. ... Granma is the yacht that was used to transport the fighters of the Cuban Revolution to Cuba in 1956. ... Frank Pais was born on December 7, 1934 and was a Cuban revolutionary. ... Santiago de Cuba is the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province in the south-eastern area of the island nation of Cuba, some 540 miles (869 km) east south-east of the Cuban capital of Havana. ... is the 334th day of the year (335th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Granma is one of the provinces of Cuba. ... is the 336th day of the year (337th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Map of Cuba showing the location of the arrival of the rebels on the Granma yacht in late 1956, the rebels' stronghold in the Sierra Maestra, and Guevara's route towards Havana via Las Villas Province in December 1958

Guevara, the troop's physician, writes that during this battle he laid down his knapsack containing medical supplies in order to pick up a box of ammunition dropped by a fleeing comrade, a moment which he later recalled as marking his transition from physician to combatant.^[1] Only 15-20 rebels survived these initial engagements to later re-group as a bedraggled fighting force; they then moved deep into the Sierra Maestra mountains where they received support from Frank País's network and local guajiro country folk, including Celia Sánchez Mandulay, Huber Matos, the bandit Cresencio Pérez, and a few covert communists who had been living in those mountains since the 1930s. At their encampments in the distant reaches of the Sierra, they slowly grew in strength, seizing weapons and winning support and recruits from guajiros, montunos and property owners (such as the Babun and Matos) in rural areas and also gaining increasing support from the general population in urban areas. Although the Cuban Communist Party (Partido Socialista Popular) did not back Castro until it was clear he was winning in the middle of 1958, the covert communist cells in the mountains did give assistance. The main source of support, including funding, arms supply and a large contingent of fighters continued to be the non-communist urban branch of the 26th of July Movement, directed by Frank País and, after his death, by "Daniel" (nom de guerre of René Ramos Latour). Guevara did not get along with the Frank País contingent and feuded and criticized them continuously. At El Uvero there were more of Frank País's followers among the combatants than "mountain" guerrillas. Guevara ridiculed these urban fighters for lack of fitness, while he himself was riding a mule because of his asthma. Image File history File links Revolution_Map_of_progress. ... Image File history File links Revolution_Map_of_progress. ... Granma is the yacht that was used to transport the fighters of the Cuban Revolution to Cuba in 1956. ... Sierra Maestra is a mountain range that runs westward across the south of the old Oriente Province from what is now Guantánamo Province to Niquero [1] in southeast Cuba, rising abruptly from the coast. ... This article is about the capital of Cuba. ... Santa Clara (also called Las Villas after 1940) was a historical province of Cuba. ... Sierra Maestra is a mountain range that runs westward across the south of the old Oriente Province from what is now Guantánamo Province to Niquero [1] in southeast Cuba, rising abruptly from the coast. ... Frank Pais was born on December 7, 1934 and was a Cuban revolutionary. ... Celia Sánchez, veneered by the participants of the Cuban Revolution. ... Huber Matos was a Cuban revolutionary who successfully overthrew the dictatorship of General Fulgencio Batista along with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos, Raul Castro and others. ... Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization based on common ownership of the means of production. ... The Communist Party of Cuba (Spanish: Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC) is currently the only officially recognized political party in Cuba. ... The Communist Party of Cuba (Spanish: Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC) is currently the only officially recognized political party in Cuba. ... The 26th of July Movement (Spanish: Movimiento 26 de Julio; M-26-7) was the revolutionary organization planned and led by Fidel Castro that in 1959 overthrew the Fulgencio Batista government in Cuba. ...

After the battle of Santa Clara 
(January 1, 1959)

Guevara gradually gained enough respect and trust from his fellow Sierra fighters for Castro to appoint him commandante of a second army column. In his new role he became something of a "a fanatic of example", a strict disciplinarian whose harsh methods were notorious amongst the rebels.^[2] Deserters were severely punished, and on a number of occasions Guevara sent execution squads into the bush to hunt down those he believed were betraying the revolution by seeking an escape. After one such execution, Guevara wrote that he was "not very convinced of the legality of the death, although I used it as an example".^[3] On another occasion, Guevara ordered the execution of a deserter whom he was informed had "victimized an entire section of the population, perhaps in collusion with the army". After the man had been shot three times, Guevara wrote; "those who took advantage of the prevailing atmosphere in the area to commit crimes was unfortunately, not infrequent in the Sierra Maestra".^[3] Image File history File links Ergstrasbatallasc. ... Image File history File links Ergstrasbatallasc. ...

He was selected by Fidel Castro to lead one of the three columns that crossed the plains of the Cauto; it is said that during this westward march he received protection from the escopeteros—men armed with shotguns—of the "Muchachos" de Orlando Lara Batista^[4][5] who had already linked up with Camilo Cienfuegos and other main force elements of Fidel Castro's Column 1. ^{[citation needed]} Then Guevara crossed, with the support of local Escopeteros the even flatter plains of Camagüey heading towards the mountainous Santa Clara province in central Cuba which his column reached in late 1958. The Cauto River or Río Cauto, located in southeast Cuba, is the longest river of Cuba. ... // Escopeteros In the original usage it means those armed with a smooth bore long barrel fire arm, sometimes a trabuco or blunderbuss, and has been used in this general context in histories of Spain and Latin America [1]. It has been used to describe a pitcher in baseball e. ... Cuban poster showing Camilo Cienfuegos. ... // Escopeteros In the original usage it means those armed with a smooth bore long barrel fire arm, sometimes a trabuco or blunderbuss, and has been used in this general context in histories of Spain and Latin America [1]. It has been used to describe a pitcher in baseball e. ... Camagüey is the largest of the provinces of Cuba. ... Santa Clara is the capital city of the Cuban province of Villa Clara. ...

Radio Rebelde

Guevara was instrumental in creating the clandestine radio station Radio Rebelde in February 1958. Radio Rebelde broadcasted news, statements by the 26th of July movement and other information to the Cuban people, as well as providing radiotelephone communication between the growing number of rebel columns across the island. Guevara had apparently been inspired by the part played by CIA supplied radio in ousting the government of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala.^[6] The station broadcast the first reports that Guevara's column had taken Santa Clara on New Years Eve 1958, contradicting reports by the heavily controlled national news media, which had at one stage reported Guevara's death during the fighting. The station, and its trademark salutation "Aquí Radio Rebelde" continues to broadcast in Cuba to the present day.^[7] Radio Rebelde is a Cuban Spanish language radio station. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán was the democratically-elected, left-wing reformist President of Guatemala. ... The Battle of Santa Clara was a series of events in late December 1958 that led to the capture of Santa Clara, Cuba by revolutionaries under the command of Che Guevara. ...

Member of revolutionary government

Ernesto "Che" Guevara speaking in Cuba 
(1960)

Guevara and his fellow "barbudos" (bearded ones) entered the capital of Havana on January 2, 1959, Fidel Castro meanwhile made his way slowly through cheering crowds from Santiago de Cuba to arrive almost a week later. In his absence, a new "revolutionary government" was hastily established by judge Manuel Urrutia on Castro's recommendation. Shortly thereafter, Guevara was declared "a Cuban citizen by birth". Before sailing on the Granma Guevara had told his Peruvian wife, Hilda Gadea (with whom he had one daughter), that he did not love her, and was leaving her; when she turned up in Cuba he initiated divorce proceedings. Later he married a member of Castro's army, Aleida March. The couple would have four children together. Image File history File links Che-microphone. ... Image File history File links Che-microphone. ... This article is about the capital of Cuba. ... is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Santiago de Cuba is the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province in the south-eastern area of the island nation of Cuba, some 540 miles (869 km) east south-east of the Cuban capital of Havana. ... Manuel Urrutia Lleó (1901 - 1981) was a Cuban political figure. ...

Guevara became as prominent in the new government as he had been in the revolutionary army. His immediate role was to be commander of Havana's La Cabaña Fortress prison, assigned by Castro to be Cuba's "Supreme Prosecutor".^[8] During his six months tenure in this post (January 2 through June 12, 1959),^[9] he oversaw the trial and execution of many people including former Batista regime officials, members of the BRAC (Buró de Represión de Actividades Comunistas; English translation: Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities) secret police, alleged war criminals, and suspected political dissidents. It is important to note that Jon Lee Anderson, author of the 814 page - 'Che: A Revolutionary Life', has stated: "I have yet to find a single credible source pointing to a case where Che executed an innocent." A Spanish-era military base overlooking Havana harbor. ... is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 163rd day of the year (164th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Different sources cite different numbers of executions. Some sources say 156 people were executed, while others give far higher figures. Thomas E. Skidmore, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Brown University, estimated the number executed in the first six months of 1959 to have been "about 550".^[10] During this period Guevara organized landings in Panama and the Dominican Republic; like all his later, similar efforts in Latin America and Africa, these landings failed. Later, Guevara became an official at the National Institute of Agrarian Reform,^[11] President of the National Bank of Cuba,^[12] and Minister of Industries.^[13] Guevara often retold a story of how he gained the job at the bank; Fidel Castro had asked if there was an economista in the room and he had put his hand up much to Fidel's surprise, Guevara had mistakenly thought the request was for a comunista.^[14] Guevara's position was also somewhat ironic, as he often condemned money, favored its abolition, and showed his disdain by signing Cuban banknotes with his nickname, "Che". Throughout his time in the Cuban government, Guevara refused his salaries of office, insisting on drawing only his wages as army commandante in order to set a "revolutionary example".^[15]

In the latter capacity at the Ministry of industries, Guevara was to transform Cuba's capitalist agrarian economy into a socialist industrial economy. He visited Tokyo in June 1959 to assess the radical land reforms that had been initiated by the United States after the second world war, claiming that Cuba's plans for agrarian reform offered considerably greater private ownership, and a higher rate of compensation to landowners than that of Japan.^[16] After negotiating a trade agreement with the Soviet Union in 1960, Guevara represented Cuba on many missions and delegations to Soviet-aligned and neutral nations in Africa and Asia following imposition by the U.S. of an economic embargo against the island nation. For other uses, see Capitalism (disambiguation). ... Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to control by the community[1] for the purposes of increasing social and economic equality and cooperation. ... For other uses, see Tokyo (disambiguation). ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ... For other uses, see Asia (disambiguation). ... For delayed access after publication, see Embargo (academic publishing). ...

Guevara helped guide Cuba on its socialist path. An active participant in the economic and social reforms implemented by the government, he became known in the West for his fiery attacks on U.S. foreign policy in Africa, Asia, and especially Latin America.

During this period, he defined Cuba's policies and his own views in many speeches, articles, letters, and essays. His highly influential manual on guerrilla strategy and tactics (English translation, Guerrilla Warfare, 1961) advocated peasant-based revolutionary movements in the developing countries. His 1965 letter "El socialismo y el hombre en Cuba" ("Man and Socialism in Cuba"), written to Carlos Quijano, editor of the Montevideo weekly magazine Marcha, is an examination of Cuba's new brand of Socialism and Communist ideology.^[17] The ideal Communist society is not possible unless the people first evolve into a 'new man' (el Hombre Nuevo). For this a socialist state would first be necessary, a ladder to be ascended and then cast away in a society of equals without states or governments. In April of 1961 Guevara was not present at the Bay of Pigs Invasion action. “Guerrilla” redirects here. ... Department Montevideo Department Altitude 43 m Coordinates 34º 53S 56º 10W Founded 1726 Founder Bruno Mauricio de Zabala Population 1,325,968 (2004) (1st) Demonym Montevideano Phone Code +02 Postal Code 10000 Montevideo (IPA: ) is the capital, largest city, and chief port of Uruguay. ... Combatants Cubans trained by Soviet advisors Cuban exiles trained by United States Commanders Fidel Castro José Ramón Fernández Ernesto Che Guevara Francisco Ciutat de Miguel Grayston Lynch Pepe San Roman Erneido Oliva Strength 51,000 1,500 Casualties various estimates; over 1,600 dead[1] to 5,000...

Prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis, Guevara was part of a Cuban delegation to Moscow in 1962 with Raúl Castro where he endorsed the planned placement of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. Guevara believed that the installation of Soviet missiles would protect Cuba from any direct military action against it by the United States. Jon Lee Anderson reports that after the crisis Guevara told Sam Russell, a British correspondent for the socialist newspaper Daily Worker, that if the missiles had been under Cuban control, they would have fired them.^[18] President Kennedy in a crowded Cabinet Room during the Cuban Missile Crisis. ... This article is about the Cuban politician. ...

Che Guevara doing volunteer work cutting sugarcane 
(1963)

The ideas presented in Guevara's book, Guerrilla Warfare, demonstrate his philosophy for fighting irregular wars. Guevara believed that a small group (foco) of guerrillas, by violently targeting the government, could actively foment revolutionary sentiment among the general populace, so that it was not necessary to build broad organizations and advance the revolutionary struggle in measured steps before launching an armed insurrection. However, the failure of his "Cuban Style" revolution in Bolivia and elsewhere was thought to have been due to his lack of grassroots support there, and hence this strategy is now believed by some to be ineffective. It worked in Cuba because many people already wanted to get rid of Batista and because the groundwork had been laid by others such as Frank País, killed by Batista's police in 1958. Image File history File links Checuttingcane. ... Image File history File links Checuttingcane. ... Irregular soldiers in Beauharnois, Quebec, 19th century. ... The foco theory of communist revolution by way of guerrilla warfare, also known as focalism (Spanish language: foquismo), was developed by Ernesto Che Guevara, based upon his experiences surrounding Fidel Castros 1959 victory in the Cuban Revolution. ... Grassroots democracy is a tendency towards designing political processes where as much decision-making authority as practical is shifted to the organizations lowest geographic level of organization. ... Frank Pais was born on December 7, 1934 and was a Cuban revolutionary. ...

As a government official, Guevara served as a public example of the "New Man" (el Hombre Nuevo). He regularly devoted his weekends and evenings to volunteer labour, be it working at shipyards or in textile factories, or cutting sugarcane. Guevara was also known for his personal austerity, simple lifestyle and habits. For example, upon becoming a member of the government, he refused an increase in pay, opting to continue drawing the (considerably) lower salary he received as a Comandante (Major) in the Rebel Army. This austerity also manifested itself as a general dislike of luxury. Once, on a trip to Russia, Guevara was dining with high-ranking officials from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when the group's food was served to them on expensive china. To the Russians, Guevara caustically remarked, "Is this how the proletariat lives in Russia?" Major is a military rank the use of which varies according to country. ...

Guevara's writings on the Cuban revolution

Che Guevara was a prolific chronicler of his own actions, creating a number of diaries recording various episodes of his life. Between 1959 and 1964, Guevara published versions of his Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War in Cuban journals such as Verde Olivo. The works were to become a cornerstone of historians’ accounts in the aftermath of the Cuban revolution, shaping the assumptions about the causes and central events. Guevara's ideological and strategic differences with many in the revolution's urban underground movement has meant that the diaries place far less emphasis on their contributions than contemporary scholarship now suggests, Guevara also strongly asserts the role of the guerrilla movement as the central force of change. President of Cuba's National Assembly and former student revolutionary Ricardo Alarcón believes that this view is now misleading, saying, "I don't like to criticize Che. But on that subject [the urban resistance] he really didn't know what he was talking about."^[19] Pasajes de la guerra revolucionaria is an autobiographical book by Che Guevara about his experiences during the war to overthrow Batista. ... The National Assembly of People’s Power (Spanish: Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular) is the legislative parliament of the Republic of Cuba and the supreme body of State power. ... Ricardo Alarcon speaking before the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, New York. ...

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References

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External links

• The Cuban Revolution (1952-1958) resource