Che Guevera

Leadership
breakdown
Made by: Balogh Bence
Early life

• Born on july 14 in argentina.

• Had 4 siblings, he was the
oldest.
• Poor family, father left wing
radical. (communist)
• He studied medicine
Latin-America
• He took a motorcycle trip around
latin america, to sudy the
economical welfare. 
• He lived in several latin-american
countries and got married there. 
Motorcycle
diaries
• He claimed that the 9 month trip
has changed his life, throughout
the trip he kept a journal, which
was published as a book in 2003,
and even adapted as a movie a
year later in 2004.
Guevera in
Cuba
• He joined Fidel Castro in his
July 26th movement.
• Castro took power in Cuba in
1959.
• He supported the alignment with
the Soviet Union.
• 1959-61 he was president of the
National Bank of Cuba, later
minister of industry.

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 Ideology
• Che Guevara
expounded a vision
of a
new socialist citizen
who would work for
the good of society
rather than for
personal profit.
Execution
• In October 1967 the guerrilla
group that Che Guevara was
leading in Bolivia was nearly
annihilated by a special
detachment of the Bolivian
army aided by CIA advisers.
Wounded, Guevara was
captured and then shot dead.
Before he was secretly buried,
his hands were cut off so that
his fingerprints could be used
to confirm his identity
Burial
•
Che Guevara was secretly buried
after he was killed in Bolivia in 1967,
but in 1997 a skeleton that was
believed to be his and the remains of
six of his comrades were disinterred
from a mass grave near Vallegrande,
Bolivia, transported to Cuba, and
reinterred in a memorial and
monument in Santa Clara.
Legacy
• Guevara would live on as a powerful symbol,
bigger in some ways in death than in life. He
was almost always referenced simply as Che—
like Elvis Presley, so popular an icon that his
first name alone was identifier enough. Many
on the political right condemned him as brutal,
cruel, murderous, and all too willing to employ
violence to reach revolutionary ends. On the
other hand, Guevara’s romanticized image as a
revolutionary loomed especially large for the
generation of young leftist radicals in western
Europe and North America in the turbulent
1960s.
Legacy
• Almost from the time of Guevara’s death, his whiskered face adorned
T-shirts and posters. Framed by a red-star-studded beret and long
hair, his face frozen in a resolute expression, the iconic image was
derived from a photo taken by Cuban photographer Alberto Korda on
March 5, 1960, at a ceremony for those killed when a ship that had
brought arms to Havana exploded. At first the image of Che was worn
as a statement of rebellion, then as the epitome of radical chic, and,
with the passage of time, as a kind of abstract logo whose original
significance may even have been lost on its wearer, though for some
he remains an enduring inspiration for revolutionary action.
Summary
• Born in Argentina, later qualified
as Cuban thanks to Castro.
• Motorcycle trip changed his life
• Movie made about him
• Joined Castro, and helped him
take over Batista
• Executed
• Icon for leftists. 

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