Che Guevara

Fidel Castro is revered as one of the most prominent communist leaders of the last century. On August 13, 1926 Fidel Castro was born in Birán, Cuba to his parents Angel Castro y Agrgiz and Lina Ruz Gonzalez. Fidel had six siblings consisting of four sisters and two brothers. His brothers were Raul and Ramon Castro, and his sisters went by the names of Juanita, Angelita, Enma, and Augustina Castro. His dad was a Spanish immigrant who made a fortune constructing railroad systems with the means of…

Heritage Essay Just some 93 miles off of the southernmost point of the United States lies Cuba. Cuba is an island known for the most beautiful beaches and its crystal clear water. Most don’t know very much about Cuba. Majority, only know of its’ communistic tendencies and of past event involvement. What most people don 't understand, is what occurs everyday in Cuba. Cubans know the art of survival, which ultimately attributes to their quality of life. Historically, Cuba is similar to that of…

“The young Mexican adults during the 1960s were influenced by different sources. They had witnessed the Cuban Revolution, the rise of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and even the Mexican labor disputes in the 1950s and 1960s. Also, unlike the demonstrations of the past, the student participants were middle class.” On July 22, 1968 was the beginning of trouble. A group of students from rival schools that eventually…

Student protesters in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico have long dealt with heavy-handed police officers. But on the night of September 26, 2014, students who attended the Raul Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa realized they were facing a far worse danger in this southern city. According to an article from the Huffington Post, the students took several buses and traveled to Iguala that day to hold a protest at a conference led by the mayor's wife. During the journey local police…

and at the same time a testimony of Héctor Jouvé, a former Argentinian guerrilla member of the Ejército Guerrillero del Pueblo (EGP), an armed organization co-founded by Ernesto “Che” Guevara which operated in northern Argentina during 1963 and 1964. The group, despite being personally (but remotely) advised by Guevara, never performed any operation and was quickly dismantled by the regional police. However, during its brief operations several of the organization members died, at least two of…

Over the years of American, banks, big corporations, and private businesses have been growing from a large companies to international monopolies. Most of which are corrupt and owned by men who only want more money, our money. Money is a huge factor in our economy and is an essential to live in today 's world. We all need a good education which allows us to have good paying jobs to support ourselves and our families throughout our lives. To achieve these goals, they will get harder and harder for…

army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose’ (Kissinger, 1969) claims Henry A. Kissinger. Whereas the famous revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara claimed that ‘Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defence against oppression’ (Guevara, 2006, p. 16). The latest armed conflicts taking place around world have only reinforced these statements. In other words, the asymmetric warfare…

Algerian Revolutionaries from the Algerian war which ended in the separation of Algeria and France in 1962, an Algerian general even supported the FLQ’s actions, and exclaimed publicly “Vive le Québec! Vive le Québec libre!” They were also inspired by Che Guevara, a figure very important in the Cuban Revolution.…

Throughout the 20th century, the great clash of ideologies occurred, being known as democracy versus communism. More specifically, many ideologies that had emerged from this era revolve around the idea of socialism. Ideologies such as Marxism-Leninism in Russia or Maoism in China crop up and create new foes of democracy. Many of these socialist ideologies hold their appeal to groups in the Global south due to their high levels of poverty. Many of these people are stricken economically and find…

Many books focus on the living and how their lives impacted a certain event or country. Katherine Verdery, an American anthropologist shares her interest with the “lives” of dead bodies. She focuses on how their deaths, their burials and commemoration of their lives itself is a political act. It is a question of sovereignty and national identity of countries when they decided where to bury the corpse, or where they erect statues in remembrance of the person. The book sets out to bring…