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Tdp_jeevi
Junior Artist Username: Tdp_jeevi
Post Number: 272 Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 24.196.83.146
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 09:35 pm: |
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He joined the Cuban revolution with Fidel Castro and, until one day in 1957 when Castro ordered his first execution, he was a nobody. Che volunteered to accompany the executioner, who hesitated in completing Castro’s command. Che quickly stepped in and shot the victim in the temple. He later wrote to his father that "at that moment I discovered that I really like killing". Castro took note. He needed an efficient executioner, a man who could kill without a troubled conscience, as there were many dissidents to dispose of. Che became head of the main prison, La Cabana, where anyone suspected of opposing Castro was incarcerated. In the first three months at La Cabana, Guevara signed 400 death warrants. Over the course of time and with his own hand he shot at least 180 people. Pierre San Martin was in La Cabana and recalled seeing a 14-year-old boy dragged in front of Che. His crime was defending his father, who had been arrested and shot. "We saw Che unholstering his pistol. He put the barrel to the back of the boy’s neck and blasted. The shot almost decapitated the young boy." In 1961, there were 300,000 Cubans in prison out of a population of 6.4 million. That’s about one person in prison for every 21 people. At any one time in the notorious Soviet Gulag, there was one person in prison for every 110 people in the country. That same year, Castro’s regime, propped up by support from the Soviet Union, received nuclear missiles. To avoid war, the American and Soviet governments agreed to allow a Communist government in Cuba in exchange for the removal of the weapons. In 1962, thinking that he was speaking off-record, Che told the London Daily Worker: "If the nuclear missiles had remained we would have used them against the very heart of America, including New York City." Yet Che Guevara was applauded at the United Nations General Assembly in 1964 when he announced that Cuba killed people. "Certainly we execute," he said. On that same trip he helped plan a bombing of the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell and Washington Monument. But the bombs never went off. The New York Police Department discovered the plot. |
   
Zulu
Junior Artist Username: Zulu
Post Number: 882 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 99.128.110.86
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 07:45 pm: |
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Dont know who he is but he sure sells a lot of t-shirts http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/dont_know_who_he_is_but_ he_sure_sells_a_lot_of_t_shirts/ Think Global,Act Local |
   
Batthar_bindaas
Side Hero Username: Batthar_bindaas
Post Number: 4327 Registered: 12-2006 Posted From: 76.226.143.177
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 07:22 pm: |
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Ntr_fan:annai..job search ela nadustundi.
goin on bro..... hopefully will get a break thorough soon  |
   
Ntr_fan
Side Hero Username: Ntr_fan
Post Number: 6272 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 98.192.68.63
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 07:13 pm: |
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Batthar_bindaas:
annai..job search ela nadustundi. |
   
Batthar_bindaas
Side Hero Username: Batthar_bindaas
Post Number: 4326 Registered: 12-2006 Posted From: 76.226.143.177
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 07:10 pm: |
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Onlytruth:history meedha avagaahana leka peru bagundhi , atani looks baagunnay ani che guvera , thokka antu untaadu...lite teesukondi Pant meedha pant style anukoni aadu esukunnaadu..adhi ikkada majorly nallolla culture ani telisi chavadu.... anni anthe
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Goonda
Side Hero Username: Goonda
Post Number: 9526 Registered: 02-2007 Posted From: 146.18.173.74
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 05:30 pm: |
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Onlytruth:intellectual ga kanapadali anukuntaadu(sincere gaane) tappa vishayam ledhu
ani neekela telisindi?? not to counter you. I would say same thing about balayya. He wants to be like NTR and talk like NTR and thinks that he's best in language(grandikam)/acting/technical-aspect( ) kaani akkada vishyam ledu. |
   
Onlytruth
Side Hero Username: Onlytruth
Post Number: 9566 Registered: 01-2007 Posted From: 67.159.44.63
Rating:  Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 05:27 pm: |
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first of all knowledge ki chaduvuki sambandam ledu >>>> 100% i agreee kaani pawan ki edhi ledhu... intellectual ga kanapadali anukuntaadu(sincere gaane) tappa vishayam ledhu ...antha aspashtathe ....half baked knowledge in this samaajam - change - sri sri - che guevara ..kind of things... |
   
Goonda
Side Hero Username: Goonda
Post Number: 9525 Registered: 02-2007 Posted From: 146.18.173.74
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 05:24 pm: |
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Onlytruth:Pant meedha pant style anukoni aadu esukunnaadu..adhi ikkada majorly nallolla culture ani telisi chavadu....
ikkada nallollu pant meeda pant vesukoru.. boxer meeda pant vesukuni bozer choopistaru.. |
   
Goonda
Side Hero Username: Goonda
Post Number: 9524 Registered: 02-2007 Posted From: 146.18.173.74
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 05:23 pm: |
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Onlytruth:Pawan 10th fail , history meedha avagaahana leka peru bagundhi , atani looks baagunnay ani che guvera , thokka antu untaadu...lite teesukondi
I think he has more worldy knowledge than balayya. knowledge raavadaniki chaduvukonavasaram ledu, first of all knowledge ki chaduvuki sambandam ledu. Tanikella bharani same 10 fail and inter discontinues. But his intellectual thinking is way better than lots of people over here. |
   
Onlytruth
Side Hero Username: Onlytruth
Post Number: 9565 Registered: 01-2007 Posted From: 67.159.44.63
Rating:  Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 05:19 pm: |
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Pawan 10th fail , history meedha avagaahana leka peru bagundhi , atani looks baagunnay ani che guvera , thokka antu untaadu...lite teesukondi Pant meedha pant style anukoni aadu esukunnaadu..adhi ikkada majorly nallolla culture ani telisi chavadu.... anni anthe |
   
Goonda
Side Hero Username: Goonda
Post Number: 9523 Registered: 02-2007 Posted From: 146.18.173.74
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 05:14 pm: |
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Arjun: Razesh: Ippudu poragallu intlo Che Guevara T shirts veyyatam, posters thagilinchukovatam, nenu aayana fan anatam goppaga feel avuthunnaru Tdp_jeevi: Che Guevara ku Pawan Kalyan fan
pratidi bootaddam lo nunchi choodaddu |
   
Tdp_jeevi
Junior Artist Username: Tdp_jeevi
Post Number: 258 Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 165.200.85.130
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 05:14 pm: |
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Kukatpally Narayana college daggara poragallantha t shirts// I would prefer to wear Prachanda T shirt or Prachanda Cap to Che Guevara. Atleast he is a hindu who led Moists for somany years lost somany people and also killed so many people finally realised, went to people for elections, won elections now he is ruling the country. He did exactly what castro , Che Guevara did in Cuba, but he did in better way, in more democratic way. |
   
Mass
Comedian Username: Mass
Post Number: 1928 Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.168.68.11
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:56 pm: |
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Castro mundu president Batista<<< General Fulgencio Batista y ZaldÃvar (pronounced [fulˈxensjo βaˈtista i salˈdiβar]; January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer, dictator and politician. Batista was the de facto military leader of Cuba from 1933 to 1940 and the de jure President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 after having won an election. After staging a successful coup in 1952, Batista ran unopposed in an election in 1954, and ruled the nation until handing over power on the last day of 1958 due to an opposition insurgency that was part of Fidel Castro's guerrilla movement, and was a significant event in the Cuban Revolution. HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE |
   
Tdp_jeevi
Junior Artist Username: Tdp_jeevi
Post Number: 257 Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 165.200.85.130
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:55 pm: |
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anai antha cheddodu ayithe anthamandi fans enduku untaaru // Who ever got negative thinking about USA he is a Che Guevara fan in south Amercia. Adho tutti vallaku. |
   
Razesh
Hero Username: Razesh
Post Number: 10165 Registered: 12-2006 Posted From: 202.153.41.36
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:55 pm: |
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Simply_rdb:by any chance are they PK fans
PK fanso kaadho teleedhu...ofcourse..aa influence kuda vundochu mama..... Monna Incredible room ki velthe Poster thagilinchaadu....em bey..antha nachadaa ante...Photo bagundhi kadha mama antaadu aa tarvatha Kukatpally Narayana college daggara poragallantha t shirts |
   
Tdp_jeevi
Junior Artist Username: Tdp_jeevi
Post Number: 256 Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 165.200.85.130
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:52 pm: |
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got rid of american puppets. // Until then there was a democracy, it was not americans who are ruling cuba, it was democratic country ruled by Cubans yekkada democracy untay vallaku America natural ally avutundhi, here also same thing. After Castro took over no elctions for the past 50 years. He is ruling continouly with brutal military power. Do you think it is correct way of ruling country by one man for somany years. For rebels , maoists ku, sanga vidroha shatulaku Che Guevara bagaa nachu thaadu. If Che Guevara is a great leader then Nepal Maoist leader Prachanda is even greater leader. Atleast Prachanda went for elections and won lot of seats democratically. He lost good terms with castro and he thought that there is nothing he can do in Cuba so he left Cuba. |
   
Arjun
Junior Artist Username: Arjun
Post Number: 304 Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 40.0.40.10
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:51 pm: |
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Razesh:Ippudu poragallu intlo Che Guevara T shirts veyyatam, posters thagilinchukovatam, nenu aayana fan anatam goppaga feel avuthunnaru
Tdp_jeevi:Che Guevara ku Pawan Kalyan fan
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Simply_rdb
Junior Artist Username: Simply_rdb
Post Number: 881 Registered: 05-2007 Posted From: 202.133.58.75
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:49 pm: |
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Razesh:
mass mama wrong quote Razesh:Ippudu poragallu intlo Che Guevara T shirts veyyatam, posters thagilinchukovatam, nenu aayana fan anatam goppaga feel avuthunnaru....asalu aallani adighte bebebe..
by any chance are they PK fans nenu chala mandi ni soosa ilativallani |
   
Mass
Comedian Username: Mass
Post Number: 1927 Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.168.68.11
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:49 pm: |
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Gamyam koncham based on motor cycle diaries a??? nenu gamyam chudaledu chudali HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE |
   
Razesh
Hero Username: Razesh
Post Number: 10164 Registered: 12-2006 Posted From: 202.153.41.36
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:47 pm: |
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Che guevara life story tho cinema under production anukunta...eenadu lo monne vesaadu...vasthe choodali |
   
Mass
Comedian Username: Mass
Post Number: 1926 Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.168.68.11
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:45 pm: |
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HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE<<< I came to know abt him 4yrs back. naku appati nunchi e quoate ante chala istam. HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE |
   
Razesh
Hero Username: Razesh
Post Number: 10163 Registered: 12-2006 Posted From: 202.153.41.36
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:45 pm: |
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Sachin:anai antha cheddodu ayithe anthamandi fans enduku untaaru
Puttaparthi saibaba ki bhakthulendhuku vunnaru Kalki bhagavan ni IASlu, IPS lu endhuku nammuthunnaru janam venta vundatam criteria kaadhu naaku telisi .... Manchi mathrame teesukunte manchidhe ante evaru cheddavaallu kaadhu.. |
   
Razesh
Hero Username: Razesh
Post Number: 10162 Registered: 12-2006 Posted From: 202.153.41.36
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:43 pm: |
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Mass:Enno rumuors vastai anni nijama? Castro and Che together fought against american controlled rule in Cuba and got rid of american puppets.
Nenu che Guevara gurinchi emanna mama aayana goppode kaavochu..naaku idea ledhu...kaani ikkada Hyderabad lo nenu choosthunna vishayam chepthunna.....Ippudu poragallu intlo Che Guevara T shirts veyyatam, posters thagilinchukovatam, nenu aayana fan anatam goppaga feel avuthunnaru....asalu aallani adighte bebebe... |
   
Sachin
Comedian Username: Sachin
Post Number: 1469 Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.100.138.242
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:42 pm: |
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Tdp_jeevi:Che Guevara ku Pawan Kalyan fan , yendhuku fan no inthavaraku yekkada cheppalaydhu. Yenakala photos maatramu untundhi. Che Guevara is a brutal killer eventhough he got lot of fans in south american countries.
anai antha cheddodu ayithe anthamandi fans enduku untaaru |
   
Goonda
Side Hero Username: Goonda
Post Number: 9522 Registered: 02-2007 Posted From: 146.18.173.74
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:41 pm: |
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Mass:Motor Cycle Diaries
yeah, idey chebudamanukuntunna.. he's experience while travelling through south american countries anta. gamyam cinema koddiga ikkada nunchi copy |
   
Mass
Comedian Username: Mass
Post Number: 1925 Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.168.68.11
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:38 pm: |
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Razesh:ofcourse, naaku aayana gurinchi pedhaga telvadhu anukondi naaku telisinollaithe antha ee baapathe
Enno rumuors vastai anni nijama? Castro and Che together fought against american controlled rule in Cuba and got rid of american puppets. he is a professional doctor who gave up everything to fight for people. He was a Minister in castros govt , anta luxary life vadilesukuni malli bolivia enduku velle vadu cheddodu aithe?? Rajesh If you can try to watch Motor Cycle Diaries movie based on true story of Che HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE |
   
Razesh
Hero Username: Razesh
Post Number: 10159 Registered: 12-2006 Posted From: 202.153.41.36
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:34 pm: |
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Che Guevara ki Sania ki daggari relation vundhi...Sagam mandhiki Che Guevara ante evaro kuda teleedhu..kevalam andhagaadu, aa Cap pettukunna cap world famous, Nenu che guevara fan ante oho kurrodu manchi kasi bidda anukuntaarani fanism sethaaru... ofcourse, naaku aayana gurinchi pedhaga telvadhu anukondi naaku telisinollaithe antha ee baapathe |
   
Tdp_jeevi
Junior Artist Username: Tdp_jeevi
Post Number: 255 Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 165.200.85.130
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:33 pm: |
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Che Guevara ku Pawan Kalyan fan , yendhuku fan no inthavaraku yekkada cheppalaydhu. Yenakala photos maatramu untundhi. Che Guevara is a brutal killer eventhough he got lot of fans in south american countries. Che Guevara was a very handsome man with rock star type of looks that also helped him to become famous. When both Federal Castro and Che Guevara led rebels to Victory in Cuba and Federal Castro became preseident Che Guevara ran some execuation and torture camps , he tortured and killed thoused of people. If you ask any Cuban who is in USA they will tell the creuality of Che Guevara. |
   
Mass
Comedian Username: Mass
Post Number: 1923 Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.168.68.11
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:26 pm: |
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Gudiwada:Tammudu RAvino annayi manchi guitar kattadu anta .. Vntaava ??
Vini VIni neeku bagaa alavatu i poindi HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE |
   
Gudiwada
Junior Artist Username: Gudiwada
Post Number: 345 Registered: 02-2007 Posted From: 12.168.68.11
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:26 pm: |
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Tammudu RAvino annayi manchi guitar kattadu anta .. Vntaava ?? Labour party renamed "PALACE ON NO WHEELS" |
   
Kadapanagfan
Side Hero Username: Kadapanagfan
Post Number: 2392 Registered: 12-2006 Posted From: 13.8.137.10
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:24 pm: |
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JHON PAUL BHUCHUKU...... |
   
Sachin
Comedian Username: Sachin
Post Number: 1468 Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 68.100.138.242
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:23 pm: |
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annai enti antha post vesaavu..oh my mad |
   
Mass
Comedian Username: Mass
Post Number: 1922 Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.168.68.11
Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:21 pm: |
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http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/jun/14che.htm 1965 was a very eventful year in Algeria. Jammu and Kashmir [Images] leader Sheikh Abdullah, who had been released from prison in India, under the pretext of seeing Algerian Revolutionary leader and President Ben Bella turned up in Algiers and met with Chinese Prime Minister Chou en Lai, also visiting Algeria. Soon after, President Ben Bella himself, residing at the Peoples Palace, just across my flat on Rue Franklin Roosevelt, was overthrown in a peaceful coup d'etat by Houari Boumeddienne, the military chief of the Algerian Liberation Army. Twice, preparatory meetings for the Second Afro Asian Summit failed to agree on an agenda or the date or even the venue. But it is the 80th anniversary of Che Guevara's birth on June 14 and the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution which Che helped plan and execute with Fidel Castro, which brought back memories of the visit to Algeria of that legendry revolutionary icon of 1960s and beyond. Having won its independence from France [Images] three years earlier after a bloody eight-year long guerilla war, in which a million Algerians out of eleven million population were sacrificed, Algeria was then at the forefront of struggle against colonialism and imperialism. Its capital Algiers was a thriving hub for freedom movements and revolutionary groups from all over Africa, Asia and elsewhere. Every week there were seminars, meetings and summits for Arab, Afro-Asian and Third World solidarity and struggle. It was for one such seminar in February 1965 that Che Guevara himself, then minister of industry in the Cuban government turned up He was indisputably the dazzling star of the show. After the meeting people queued up to shake his hand and so did I, then posted as a young diplomat at Algiers. I said hello and perhaps added how are you. It was like getting an autograph of a celebrity. With only a few years into the diplomatic service after an engineering degree from Baneras I was still reading up on history and international relations and was not fully cognisant of the Che Guevara phenomenon and his revolutionary past. But the man had a charismatic presence in green olive fatigues and black beret at a rakish angle. The very best of the Hollywood and Bollywood stars all rolled into one. Later when I recounted my meeting and shaking hands with Che, many students, leftists and ladies would shake my hand to partake some of that revolutionary barkat which might still be lingering in my fingers. Later I learnt more about Che (so nicknamed because of his constant use of Che - dear), his full name being Ernesto Guevara de la Serna. Born in 1928 in a well-educated middle-class Argentine family, he was the eldest of five siblings. He played excellent chess as a child and was an aggressive rugby player. During adolescence and later he remained passionate about poetry, especially that of Neruda, Keats, Machado, Lorea, Mistral, Vallejo and Whitman. He could also recite Kipling and Hernandez from memory. A home library of more than 3,000 books, allowed him to be an enthusiastic and eclectic reader of philosophers and poets, even writings of Jawaharlal Nehru (with whom Che had lunch during the visit to New Delhi), apart from Marxist and existentialist writers. He had a brilliant medical academic career and was an exceptional athlete in spite of asthma. But his motorcycle trips across Latin America, where he encountered American imperialism first hand changed his vision of the world. A bloody revolution was necessary to throw out capitalism and imperialism. "After graduation, due to special circumstances and perhaps also to my character, I began to travel throughout America, and I became acquainted with all of it. Except for Haiti and Santo Domingo, I have visited, to some extent, all the other Latin American countries. Because of the circumstances in which I travelled, first as a student and later as a doctor, I came into close contact with poverty, hunger and disease; with the inability to treat a child because of lack of money; with the stupefaction provoked by the continual hunger and punishment, to the point that a father can accept the loss of a son as an unimportant accident, as occurs often in the downtrodden classes of our American homeland. And I began to realise at that time that there were things that were almost as important to me as becoming famous for making a significant contribution to medical science: I wanted to help those people." --- Che Guevara in 1960. After finishing his medical studies, he reached Guatemala in December 1953, where President Jacob Arbenz Guzman heading a democratically elected government, through land reforms and other measures, was attempting to improve the condition of the peasants. Che wanted to settle down in Guatemala, but for the overthrow of the Arbenz government by Washington which confirmed Guevara's view that the USA was an imperialist power that would oppose and attempt to destroy any regime that sought to redress the socio-economic inequality endemic to Latin America and other developing countries. This strengthened his conviction that Marxism achieved through armed struggle and defended by an armed populace was the only way to rectify such a condition. Che then shifted to Mexico city in September 1954, and renewed his friendship with the Cuban exiles he had known in Guatemala. In June 1955, he met with Raul Castro and later his older brother, Fidel Castro, who was planning to overthrow the dictatorship of US backed Fulgencio Batista in what became hallowed as the Cuban Revolution. Guevara recognised at once that Castro was the cause for which he had been searching for. He joined Castro and was promoted as commander in Castro's 26 July Movement, playing a pivotal role in the successful guerrilla campaign to overthrow Batista. After Castro's army rolled victoriously into Havana the revolutionary government in February, 1969 proclaimed Guevara "a Cuban citizen by birth" in recognition of his role in the triumph. After the revolution Che served in many prominent governmental positions, including as president of the national bank, minister of industry, and "supreme prosecutor" over the revolutionary tribunals and executions of suspected war criminals from the previous regime. He also went traversing around the globe to meet with an array of world leaders to explain and promote the Cuban socialism. Che was a prolific writer and diarist. One of his most prominent published works includes a manual on the theory and practice of guerilla warfare. Time magazine, which described Che Guevara as one of the hundred most influential persons of the 20th century, wrote that: "Che convinced Castro with competence, diplomacy and patience. When grenades were needed, Che set up a factory to make them. When bread was wanted, Che set up ovens to bake it. When new recruits needed to learn tactics and discipline, Che taught them. When a school was needed to teach peasants to read and write, Che organised it." The Cuban revolution, still survives in spite of American endevours to undermine it and many attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro himself. Cuba remains a beacon and has inspired revolutionaries and leftist regimes around the world specially in Latin America. Che had come to Algeria after visiting many important Afro-Asian nations like China, India, Yugoslavia and Egypt. This visit turned out to be his last public appearance on the international stage. In a speech at the economic seminar on the importance of Afro-Asian solidarity, he specified the moral duty of the socialist countries and accused them of tacit complicity with the exploiting Western countries. He proceeded to outline a number of measures which he said the Communist-bloc countries must implement in order to accomplish the defeat of imperialism. Che appeared closer to Mao's Chinese ideology. It was an implicit criticism of the Soviet Union, Cuba's main support and bulwark against implacable US hostility, which continues to this day. Ideological differences with Castro on USSR 's policies brought some coolness in relations between Castro and Guevara. After Algiers, Che did return to Cuba but left soon after and dropped out of public life and then vanished altogether. There were many media reports of his appearance with USA's CIA very much on his trail and keenly interested in his activities. It appears that he first helped Patrice Lumumba's cause in Congo, but did not achieve much success. In late 1966 he went over to Bolivia to set up guerrilla training groups to help dissidents to the regime. The US was keeping a watch on his movements but Che was unaware that Washington had sent CIA and other operatives, including one Felix Rodriguez into Bolivia to aid the government forces which had been trained, advised, and supplied by US Army Special Forces trained in jungle warfare. In October, 1967, Che's group was attacked by the Bolivian army. Guevara, who was wounded in the attack, was captured, but he died defiantly. A panicky Bolivian regime, afraid of reaction around the world if he were tried and US demands, got him executed. Moments before his execution Che was asked if he was thinking of his own immortality. "No," he replied, "I'm thinking about the immortality of the revolution." A jittery and shaking Bolivian soldier chosen to kill him, had trouble pulling the trigger. Che asked him to steady himself and take a clean aim. He was only 40 years old. Few revolutionaries like Mao and Fidel live to grow old. And Mao's China is far from a revolutionary state now. In July, 1997, Che Guevara's remains though not exhumed were definitely identified by two experts who were "100 percent sure", were discovered in Vallegrande in Bolivia. A July 19 ceremony in Havana, attended by Fidel Castro and other Cuban officials, marked the return of Che's remains to Cuba and in an October 17, 1997 ceremony attended by Castro and thousands of Cubans, Che Guevara's were reburied in Santa Clara, Cuba. Che's unflinching will, self sacrifice and idealism have given him a saint like halo and reverence among his followers around the world. His theories and treatises on guerilla warfare still remain a beacon for the young and the revolutionary as they were for the 1968 students uprising in Paris and elsewhere, for example, among the leftist Marxist students of Turkey in early 1970s, who also studied the Naxabari movement and lapped up theories of Charu Majumdar and Kanu Sanyal from Bengal. Che's memories now live on in photos, music, theatre pieces, movies, poems, novels, sculptures and scholarly texts. To coincide with his 80th birthday celebrations, a collection of vintage Che Guevara prints are on display in Austria, including the iconic 1960 Alberto Korda portrait of him in a beret. Exhibitions of his photographs including of his visit to India in 1960s is being held in New Delhi. A new statue has been unveiled in his native Argentina. The larger-than-life "Monument to Che" statue weighs three tons and towers 13 feet high, topped off with the revolutionary's famed starred beret. Guevara had left the city in 1953 as a young doctor embarking on a trip throughout Latin America, a journey depicted in the 2004 movie Motorcycle Diaries. But the universal consumer society today exploits even Che's fame and name to sell designer clothes, beer, films and books. HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE:: LEGENDS NEVER DIE(RIP) HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE |