Fifty-five years ago this week, Ernesto "Che" Guevara got a major dose of his own medicine. Without trial he was declared a murderer, stood against a wall and shot. If the saying "What goes around ...
Cuba remembered the 50th anniversary of the death of a key figure in the Marxist revolution that overturned U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista and brought the Fidel Castro–led regime to power.
You’ve seen the image, even if you’re not sure you know the man. His face looks back at you from concerts, protests, college campuses and the mall. Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna, Che to the ...
Barack Obama made history this Monday as the first US president to step foot on Cuban soil since Calvin Coolidge’s visit in 1928. However, as circumstance would have it, the historic moment has been ...
I am visiting the beautiful central American country of Guatemala, where one of the most controversial figures in Latin American history is ...
Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the Argentine Marxist and guerrilla fighter whose famous portrait by Alberto Korda still adorns everything from t-shirts and baseball caps to hagiographic murals, MAD magazine ...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The Bolivian general who captured Argentine-Cuban guerrilla leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara has been buried, and the ceremony was shunned by Bolivia’s leftist national government ...
The Republic of Ireland marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Che Guevara, on Oct. 9, with a commemorative postage stamp. It’s become hugely popular, but it’s also causing quite a stink. Ernesto ...
I was living in 1967 in Santiago de Chile, where I worked at the university and wrote from time to time for the Guardian in London. That January, I was told by Chilean leftist friends that Che Guevara ...