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Che Guevara, born Ernesto Guevara de la Serna on the 14th of May 1928 in Rosario, Argentina, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, he died on the 9th of October 1967 after being captured by CIA-assisted Bolivian forces.
Che Guevara sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht Granma in November 1956 and rose to second-in-command in the guerrilla campaign against Fulgencio Batista. He led the decisive military victory at Santa Clara, then entered Havana on the 2nd of January 1959 to take control of the capital.
Che Guevara made a nine-month, 8,000-kilometer motorcycle trek through South America in 1952 with his friend Alberto Granado, partly to volunteer at the San Pablo leper colony in Peru. The poverty he witnessed convinced him to leave medicine for armed political struggle, and his notes became the best seller The Motorcycle Diaries.
Che Guevara commanded the La Cabana Fortress prison from the 2nd of January to the 12th of June 1959, overseeing revolutionary tribunals against people judged traitors, informants, or war criminals. Estimates of his death total at La Cabana range from 55 to 105.
Che Guevara's New Man, or el Hombre Nuevo, was a citizen he hoped would be selfless, cooperative, incorruptible, non-materialistic, and anti-imperialist, motivated by moral rather than material incentives. He sought to eliminate material rewards and reform individual consciousness to build a socialist society.
Che Guevara pushed Cuba to name 1961 the year of education and to send 100,000 volunteers in literacy brigades into the countryside. By the campaign's end, 707,212 adults had been taught to read and write, raising the literacy rate to 96 percent.