Che Guevara Case

Ernesto "Che" Guevara was born May 14, 1928 in Argentina and studied medicine at the University of Buenos Aires He is known as revolutionary and a freedom fighter with great character, but he was also a murdering machine. Che Guevara may have wanted to stop poverty and create equality with his socialist ideas but all he did was become overcome with power just like so many before him. He killed innocent Cubans without a fair trial, he aided the Soviets, and he even tried spreading his socialist spiel in other countries. Che Guevara is an icon all around the world and it is juvenile that people are so uneducated they walk around with a deadly dictator on their shirt thinking that he is some sort of Gandhi.

On November 25, 1956 Che, the Castro brothers, and 82 men set out for Cuba on an old boat called the" Granma." Their mission was simple, use guerilla warfare too overthrow Batista and revolutionize Cuba. When Castro finally came to power in 1959, Che became in charge of La Cabaña Fortress prison, it is predicted about 500 people were executed on his order. (Che Guevara, Biography.com) "I don't need proof to execute a man" (Che Guevara: 39 Years of Hype, Humberto Fontova) Following this act of manslaughter Guevara was appointed president of the national bank of Cuba and the head of ministry of industry, Guevara had no financial or governmental experience whatsoever and was surely setting up the Cuban economy for failure. Guevara travelled around the globe to trade with welcoming countries. It was because of Che that the Soviet Union agreed to buy sugar from Cuba in exchange for strategic support. (Che Guevara, encyclopedia.com) In 1961 Guevara published "La Guerra de guerrillas" a book which outlined how to progress in guerilla warfare. The book was used to train guerrilla soldiers and it also supplied tactics; Che said that soldiers should

"Hate as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine. This is what our soldiers must become..." (Che Guevara, Torture and Tyranny: The Real Che, R. McElroy)

Che Guevara was losing his mind with power,

"Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!" (Che Guevara, Torture and Tyranny: The Real Che, R. McElroy)

Unfortunately this was only the beginning of Guevara's rampage, as he grew older and more powerful he became angrier and less charitable, a strong hate towards the United States and Capitalism burned