Ernesto Guevara (Che) was a Latin American “guerrilla leader” and “revolutionary theorist.” Born in Argentina Guevara's early interests lay in medicine. However convinced that revolution was the only way out of Latin America’s social inequities, Guevara moved to Mexico where he found and joined Fidel Castro, at the time exiled from Cuba.
In 1956 after a rebel invasion of Cuba Guevara soon became Castro’s chief lieutenant, and soon after that one of Castro’s closest friends.
   Though serving faithfully for a number of years Guevara decided to leave to help revolutionary activity in other countries.
In 1967 Guevara was wounded in an assault in Bolivia, and was shortly thereafter captured and executed.
   He is known for his actions as well as the books he wrote: Guerrilla Warfare (1961), Man and Socialism in Cuba (1967), and Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War (1968). But he is best remembered as an icon of the revolutionary hero which so many youths in America admired.