Ernesto “Che” Guevara was one of the most prominent Cold-War-era revolutionaries, active in Cuba, the Congo, and Bolivia.
He was born in Rosario, Argentina on May 14th, 1928 to Celia de la Serna de Guevara and Ernesto Rafael Guevara Lynch, an architect. As a child and young man, he excelled in sports (despite his asthma), chess, poetry, reading, and photography. His parents separated not long after the family moved to Cordoba in 1943.
After graduating high school, Guevara worked in a laboratory in Villa Maria and decided he wanted to be a doctor. In 1948, he matriculated at the University of Buenos Aires, earning a medical degree five years later. As outlined in his work The Motorcycle...
