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    1. Andrew St. George, “How the U.S. Got Che,” True April 1969, 93.[return]
    2. Luis Rodriguez, interview by Dr. Troy J. Sacquety, 1 December 2008, Fort Bragg, NC, digital recording, USASOC History Office Classified Files, Fort Bragg, NC. Rodriguez fought with General Fulgencio Batista’s forces against Castro, and with the Brigade 2506 at the Bay of Pigs.[return]
    3. John Lee Anderson, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (New York: Grove Press, 1997), 3. Che’s mother was three months pregnant when she married. The birth certificate was back-dated to hide her pregnancy. [return]
    4. Anderson, Che Guevara, 13.[return]
    5. This trip was depicted in the 2004 film, The Motorcycle Diaries, and was based on the book with the same name.[return]
    6. The two married 18 August 1955 [they divorced in 1959], and their daughter, Hilda Beatriz, was born on 15 February 1956.[return]
    7. Anderson, Che Guevara, 175. [return]
    8. Sir Robert Thompson, con

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      Early Life and Motorcycle Diaries

      Guevara was born in Rosario, Argentina on June 14, 1928. The oldest of five children in a genteel, middle-class family, his frikostig parents—especially his mother, Celia—were political activists. Guevara’s asthma led the family to relocate near Cordoba when he was a boy, where the drier climate lessened his attacks. And while he participated in sports, he also became a voracious reader. As a teen, he began to cultivate a political ideology and joined detractors of Argentine dictator Juan Perón. 

      Did you know? Che Guevara has been the subject of a number of films, including “The Motorcycle Diaries,” which was based in part on Che's own account of his nine-month journey across South America in 1951–52, an experience that shaped his leftist beliefs.

      In 1948, Guevara entered the University of Buenos Aires to study medicine but left to embark on what would be known as his “motorcycle diaries” journeys. First, traveling solo across norther

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      Che Guevara

      Argentine revolutionary (1928–1967)

      Comrade

      Che Guevara

      Guerrillero Heroico, 1960

      In office
      11 February 1961 – 1 April 1965
      PresidentOsvaldo Dorticós Torrado
      Prime MinisterFidel Castro
      Preceded byOffice established
      Succeeded byJoel Domenech Benítez
      In office
      26 November 1959 – 23 February 1961
      Preceded byFelipe Pazos
      Succeeded byRaúl Cepero Bonilla
      Born

      Ernesto Guevara


      (1928-06-14)14 June 1928[a]
      Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
      Died9 October 1967(1967-10-09) (aged 39)
      La Higuera, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
      Manner of deathExecution by shooting
      Resting placeChe Guevara Mausoleum, Santa Clara, Cuba
      Citizenship
      Political partyM-26-7 (1955–1962)
      PURSC (1962–1965)
      Spouses

      Hilda Gadea

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      (m. 1955; div. 1959)​
      Children5, including Aleida
      Alma materUniversity of Buenos Aires
      Occupatio
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