Che Guevara: The Guerrilla Fighter Who Choked America

 Che Guevara

There is no limit to the struggle that continues till death. Whatever is happening in any corner of the world, we cannot remain indifferent. The victory of a single country against imperialism is our victory and the defeat of a single country is our defeat.' This was said by Che Guevara in his last international address at the Afro-Asian Solidarity Seminar in Algeria two years before his death. Che Guevara was born in Argentina and was a Cuban revolutionary leader who became a hero to leftists. A photograph of him taken by Alberto Korda became a well-known symbol of the 20th century

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, popularly known as Che Guevara, was born on June 14, 1928, to a middle-class family in Rosario, Argentina. He studied medicine at the University of Buenos Aires. During this period he had the opportunity to travel extensively in South and Central America

He witnessed widespread poverty and oppression, and his interest in Marxism convinced him that armed revolution was the only solution to the problems of South and Central America.

In his writing for BBC Urdu in 2007, Vasatullah Khan remembers Che Guevara in this way: 'What did Che Guevara not do in his short life? A rugby and chess player, an asthmatic, a doctor, a photographer, a motorbike rider, a poet, a guerrilla commander, a father, a husband, a diarist, a writer and a revolutionary.

In 1954 he went to Mexico and the following year he met Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. 'He was a walking pain in the guise of a man. An Abdullah who did not consider any marriage to be alien to being mad. For him, the whole of Latin America and then the whole world was one country. In 1954 he went to Mexico and the following year he met Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.

He was a walking pain in the guise of a man. An Abdullah who did not consider any marriage to be alien to being crazy. For him, the whole of Latin America and then the whole world was one country. Vasatullah Khan's column Che Guevara joined Castro in the '26th of July Movement' and played an important role in the guerrilla war against the Cuban dictator Batista. Castro ended Batista's rule in 1959 and took power in Cuba. From 1959 to 1961, Che Guevara was President of the National Bank of Cuba and then Minister of Industry. In this capacity, he traveled around the world as Cuba's diplomat.

Within the country, he devised schemes to redistribute land and planned for industrialization.

A staunch critic of the United States, he supported the Castro government's alliance with the Soviet Union. After the US trade embargo and failed reforms, Cuba's economy collapsed.

Che Guevara spent several months on the continent of Africa, particularly in the Congo. He tried to train the rebel army for guerrilla warfare During this difficult time, Che Guevara began to fight with other Cuban leaders. He later expressed his desire to spread the revolution to other parts of the developing world, and then in 1965, Castro announced that Che Guevara had left Cuba. Che Guevara's diary also contains two letters written by him to Castro, in one of which he writes: 'I feel that I have done my part in my duty to the land of Cuba. And kept connected with the revolution.

So I leave you, my colleagues and your people who have become mine. No legal ties bind me to Cuba anymore, the ties that exist are of a different nature, ties that cannot be broken at will.

There is no limit to the struggle that continues till death. Whatever is happening in any corner of the world, we cannot remain indifferent. The victory of any one country against imperialism is our victory and the defeat of any one country is our defeat. In a letter to his children as he left, Chi wrote: 'Your father was a man who acted on what he thought. Believe me, he remained completely loyal to his ideals. Remember, if anything is important, the revolution, our self, our existence is insignificant compared to it.

Che Guevara spent several months on the continent of Africa, particularly in the Congo. He tried to train the rebel army for guerilla warfare. But his efforts were in vain and in 1966 he secretly returned to Cuba. From Cuba, he decided to go to Bolivia to lead the rebel forces against the government of René Barentes Ortono. The Bolivian army, with US support, arrested him and his remaining fighters.

On October 9, 1967, Che Guevara was secretly buried in the village of Lahiguera in Buelia. His remains were found in 1997 and were exhumed and returned to Cuba. There is also an article in the book Che Guevara's Diary by Fidel Castro in which he writes: 'It has been proven that Che was killed while fighting. The bore of his M2 rifle had been completely rendered useless by a single shell. There were no bullets in his pistol. In this helplessness, he was captured alive.

His legs were so injured that he could not even walk. In that state he was taken to Hagoraz. The military officers decided to kill him. The details of the implementation of this decision in a school are known to all.