Che Guevara

He tied the martial knot with Hilda Gadea in 1955. The couple was blessed with a child. However, the relationship did not last long and the two separated in 1959, after he informed Gadae about his relationship with Aleida March.

He then married Aleida March on June 2, 1959. The couple was blessed with four children.

His efforts to raise an uprising in Bolivia not just failed but charged him his life. He was captured by the government forces and taken to La Hinguera on October 8, 1967. Following day, Bolivian President Rene Barrientos ordered him to be killed. The final execution was carried out by Mario Teran, a sergeant in the Bolivian army.

Born as Ernesto Guevara to Celia de la Serna y Llosa and Ernesto Guevara Lynch, he was the eldest of the five children of the couple.

From a young age, he was introduced to a wide range of political perspectives, primarily leftists. These incidents left a deep impact on the mind of this budding revolutionary.

He developed an affinity for reading and was known to be a voracious reader. Throughout his early days, he had read the works of various revolutionaries and political leaders of the world including Karl Marx, William Faulkner, Andre Gide, Emilio Salgari, Jawaharlal Nehru, Albert Camus and like.

As a youngster, he excelled in athletics and various sport activities. Academically, after attaining his preliminary education, he enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires to study medicine.

It was while attending college that he embarked on two long journeys: a 4500km long solo journey on bicycle through the rural provinces of Northern Argentina in 1950, and a nine-month, 8,000-kilometer continental motorcycle trek through most of South America with his friend Alberto Granado in 1951.

Upon attaining a degree in medicine in 1953, he embarked on yet another journey, which further affirmed his views against capitalism and the need to save the world from it. He became politically active, first in native Argentina and later at Bolivia and Gautemala.

For a living, he started working in the General Hospital in Mexico City in 1954. Additionally, he gave lectures on medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and as a news photographer in a news agency.

Deeply troubled by the poverty and the exploitation of the poor and the deprived, he resolved to fight for a better world. It was in 1955 that he was introduced to Cuban revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro. The two joined hands to work against imperialism.

He helped Castro in the latter’s effort to overthrow the Batista government in Cuba. For the same, he attained military training and learned hit and run tactics of guerrilla warfare.

In 1956, the troops loyal to Castro, initiated the 26th of July Movement during which they aimed to set up a base in the Sierra Maestra mountains. However, attacked by the government troop, only 22 of the once 82 member troop reached to the top.

He joined hands with Fidel Castro and played an important and crucial role in the Cuban Revolution. For his revolutionary actions and rebellions nature, he became an iconic cultural hero.