Che+Guevara

=Che Guevara=

==Overview== Edgar "Che" Guevara was born on June 14th, 1928. He was born in Rosario, Argentina. He was born from an Irish descent, many say that's were he gets his rebel instincts. He was the oldest of five and lived a wealthy life. However he developed a great understanding and care for the poor. He was a very intelligent man none the less. He studied mostly poetry and could recite many poems from memory. His home contained over 3,000 books. He went off to college and studied many different things.

**Main point**
His life was ordinary until him, Fidel Castro and others sailed to Cuba an started a coup to overthrow the dictator Fulgencio Batista. After a long campaign of bloody fighting, they won. Che displayed amazing courage and military tactics skill that he was named the commandant. The coup was started on the hope of making Cuba the first successful Socialist Republic(Communism) in the Americas. Che was the common man's man. He was a true honest individual who wanted nothing more than to lift up the poor and remove tyranny from his newly created country. To most, he was a savior almost God-like, and with his execution, his legend was transformed into something even greater than that.

**Conclusion/Historical Significance**
Che was executed Vallegrande when he was only 39 years old on Oct 9, 1967. He died in heroic fashion saying in his last words to the executioner,"Shoot, coward, you're only going to kill a man". Once he was killed his hands were cut off for some unknown reason. Che gave hope to all Latin Americans, he is their hero still to this day. Even though his actions and violent to many, he restored the dream in many others, the dream that they themselves could do something and anything they want if they are willing to die for their cause.