Ernesto "Che" Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary born in 1928 in Rosaria, Argentina. He was a physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist best known as a major figure in the Cuban Revolution. In his early life, he enjoyed reading works by Marx, Lenin, and Nehru and traveled through South America with his friend Alberto Granado in 1951-1952 chronicling their experiences in his book The Motorcycle Diaries. These experiences helped shape his views and commitment to revolution. He went on to fight in the Cuban Revolution alongside Fidel Castro and served in the new Cuban government, advocating for armed revolution worldwide before his death in Bolivia in

2. Profile
Name: Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Born: 14th June 1928
Birth Place: Rosaria, Argentina
Race: Hispanic
Religion: Atheist
Field: Revolutionary
Famous For: Symbol of
Revolution

3. Who he was?
 Argentine Marxist revolutionary
 Physician
 Author
 Guerrilla leader,
 Diplomat
 Military theorist

4. Early days
 He was passionate about poetry,
especially that of Pablo Neruda and John
Keats.
 He was an enthusiastic reader, with
interests including Carl Marx and William
Faulkner.
 Additional he enjoyed the works of
Jawaharlal Nehru, Vladimir Lenin, Robert
Forst and Franz Kafta.

5. Education
 Che changes so many schools as his
family moved from place to place.
 In 1948, he entered, the University of
Buenos Aires to study medicine.
 In 1953, he graduated from the
university, where he was trained as a
doctor.

6. The Motorcycle Diaries
 “This isn't a tale of heroic feats. It's about two lives
running parallel for a while, with common aspirations
and similar dreams.”

7. Motorcycle journey
 On December 1951 Che and his
partner Alberto Granado took a trip to
south America by a motorcycle.
 Their goal was spending a few weeks
volunteering at the San Pablo Leper
colony in Peru.

8. Motorcycle Dairy

9. Before He changed the world,
the world change him

10. Dairy Of 14000 kilometers
Dec. 14 - March 11 1951-1952 @ Argentina
Feb. 14 - March 22, 1952 @ Chile
March 24 - June 21, 1952 @ Peru

11. The map of the motorcycle
diary

12. Dairy of 8 months
June. 23 - July 13 1952 @ Columbia
June. 14 - July 26, 1952 @ Venezuala
Late July 1952 @ United States

13. Guatemala
 On July 7, 1953 the journey continues again to
Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica,
Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.
 After Witnessing American intervention in
Guatemala in 1954, Che realigned and become
convinced that the only way to bring about
change way by violent revolution.
“ I was born in Argentina, I fought in Cuba, and I began
to be a revolutionary in Guatemala."

14. July 26 movement
 On 2 Dec, 1956 an organized group of
82 revolutionaries including Che and
Castro landed in Cuba and launched a
guerilla war against the hated Batista
regime.
 Castro make Che, the commander.
 On 1-2 Jan 1959, the fall of the hated
Batista regime, who was a US puppet
considered by Che.

15. After the Revolution
 He travelled Africa, Asia, Yogoslavia
 On July 15 he flies to Japan visit
Hiroshima.
 Oct 7 , Head of Industry Department
of Cuba.
 Nov 26 , named President of national
bank

16. Adoption of Che

17. Guerrilla Warfare
 "Guerra de Guerrillas“ is book written
by Che, about fighting days.
 Oct to Feb 1961, he Travelled to
socialist countries
 China, Czechosolvakia and
USSR

18. Back to Cuba
 In march 1966, he had to leave congo
and went back to Cuba
 From March to June he travelled
through Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay,
Argentina and Bolivia.

19. The Set of the Sun
 March 23, 1967 the gorilla defeated the
Bolivian army in their first unexpected battle.
 Oct 8, the battle in Quebrada de yoru took
place.
 Following day, Bolivian government
announced that Che had been executed.
 Oct 15, Fidel Castro officially accepted Che's
death.

20. "I know you are
here to kill me. Shoot
coward you're only
going to kill a man"

21. Failure in Bolivia
 Working class Bolivians were happy with
capitalism.
 The hungry eyes of common people made
him mad.
 Quite impossible to get victory of socialist
revolution in a foreign country.
 Without food and medicines for a year
wandering in jungles, made the guerillas half
dead.

22. The sun still shines
 He is lord of modern revolution.
 He was god for common poor people.
 The icon of anti capitalism & social liberation.
 Hero of third world socialist nations.
 The greatest inspiring leader for the youths of all
time.
 His holy sacrifice

23. A saint or sinner?
 Che was always known to be a
strict disciplinarian and he was
almost known to be tyrannical,
but that is how one should be
when one is a warrior of a
revolution.
 Somebody describes Che as "the
killing machine" but from my
point of view he just followed
Gandhijiee's words "do or die"

24. A man , many qualities.
 A great revolutionary.
 A true politician.
 An awesome author.
 A kind hearted physician.
 A military theorist.
 An inspiring leader of world
history.

25. Autobiography & Biography
 Guerrilla warfare
 Manifesto
 The motorcycle
diaries
• Che Guevara
-- David Sanderson
• Che Guevara : a
revolutionary life
-- Jon Lee
• I, Che Guevara
-- John Blackthorn

26. The motion pictures

27. Remembrance

28. "you may cut the flowers, but it will
not stop the spring"

29. Revolutionary, not a rock star

30. Its the time to think
 Capitalism has killed 650000000
people.
 Che tried to make us safe from the evil
capitalism.
 The time has come again.
 Its time to stop it.
 I wonder how?

31. Remembering Those Words
"no sleep in hungry eyes...
green leaves, fast waves woke up, woke
up"

32. "long live Che
Long live Revolution..."