Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna (14 June 1928-9 Oct 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leader. In 1951, Ernesto set off from his home town of Córdoba on a motorcycle tour of Central and South America. The poverty he observed during this trip led him to intensify his study of Marxist ideologies. Guevara was a member of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, which seized power in Cuba in 1959. After the revolution Guevara became second only to Fidel Castro in the new government of Cuba. Guevara did not settle in as part of the new government, and tried without success to stage revolutions through guerilla warfare in various countries, notably Congo and Bolivia, where he was captured by a unit of the Bolivian Ranger Battalion advised by US Green Berets on 8 October, 1967, and executed the following day. Ernesto Guevara did have some last words before his death; he allegedly said to his executioner, “I know you've come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man,” after which he was shot in the heart. He was buried in an unmarked grave in the vicinity of the execution site after the CIA had removed his hands to send to different parts of the world to ensure his identity. In 1999, the skeletal remains of Guevara's body were exhumed, positively identified by DNA matching and returned to Cuba, where he is revered as a heroic revolutionary leader.

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