Aleida guevara
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Early Life and Motorcycle Diaries
Guevara was born in Rosario, Argentina on June 14, 1928. The oldest of five children in a genteel, middle-class family, his liberal parents—especially his mother, Celia—were political activists. Guevara’s asthma led the family to relocate near Cordoba when he was a boy, where the drier climate lessened his attacks. And while he participated in sports, he also became a voracious reader. As a teen, he began to cultivate a political ideology and joined detractors of Argentine dictator Juan Perón.
Did you know? Che Guevara has been the subject of a number of films, including “The Motorcycle Diaries,” which was based in part on Che's own account of his nine-month journey across South America in 1951–52, an experience that shaped his leftist beliefs.
In 1948, Guevara entered the University of Buenos Aires to study medicine but left to embark on what would be known as his “motorcycle diaries” journeys. First, traveling solo across northern Argentina in 1950 on a makeshift motorcycle that consisted of a small engine attached to a bicycle
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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna is one of the most known characters of the last century. Strangely, his medical career is rather forgotten. In a letter to his parents, he wrote:
“In my recollection, I was sorry for not being a better soldier and a better physician; I don’t care about the latter anymore, and I´m not doing so bad as a soldier”1.
He carried out some of those medical activities in the Hospital General de México (HGM) where, besides working, he literally lived there in the 50s. There are already many biographies about “el Che”2, his diaries have been published; so, instead of the adventurer, the guerrilla, the dreamer, the symbol or the myth, we’ll talk about the relevant details of his being a doctor in the HGM in those years, a workplace and home at the same time.
Brief history
Ernesto Guevara was born to an aristocratic family on June 14, 1928, in the city of Rosario, Argentina. He studied Medicine in the Buenos Aires National University from which he graduated by mid-1953. Before that, he worked as an assistant in the Allergy Investigation Institute, led by Dr.
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Aleida March
Cuban revolutionary (born 1936)
Aleida March | |
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March with Che Guevara in 1961 | |
| Born | Aleida March Torres (1936-10-19) 19 October 1936 (age 88) Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba |
| Organization | United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution[1] |
| Known for | Guevarism |
| Spouse | Che Guevara (m. 1959; died 1967) |
| Children | 4, including Aleida |
Aleida March Torres[a] (born 19 October 1936) is a Cuban revolutionary who was Ernesto "Che" Guevara's second wife, and a member of Fidel Castro's Cuban army.
Biography
Aleida March was an active combatant in Che Guevara's Lightning Campaign in December 1958. She was present at the battle for Las Villas in which Column 8 of the 26th of July Movement was ordered by Fidel Castro to paralyze the occupying military forces of President Fulgencio Batista in the province.
Her marriage with Che Guevara is reported to have happened both on 23 March 1959 and 2 June 1959, after his divorce from Hilda Gadea. A civil c
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