History vs. Che Guevara - Alex Gendler

His face is recognized all over the world – the young medical student who became a revolutionary icon. But was Che Guevara a heroic champion of the poor, or a ruthless warlord who left a legacy of repression? Alex Gendler puts this controversial figure on trial in History vs. Che Guevara.

Lesson by Alex Gendler, directed by Brett Underhill.

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[Professicchio]

Remember: the difference between "terrorist" and "freedom fighter" merely relates to which side the person using the word is on and not much else.

[SantiagoGomez-cxel]

I always get angry at the way the Cuban missile crisis is viewed as if the Cubans were responsible, the American missiles in Turkey are never talked about as the real cause. Amazing

[youtubergamer]

Latin America: does anything
Cia: now that's an avengers level threat

[MistaFadora]

His young version looks like the dad of the powerpuff girls

[lysmrtz]

why doesn’t the judge know anything about the cases

[GeneralDonato]

Fun fact: Che Guevara is the only person in this series that judging by age only, he technically could still be alive today (he would be 94 now)

[Cybersomnia]

Latin America: *does anything *

The United States: I N I T I A T E P R O J E C T F R E E D O M E A G L E

[davidd]

90% of all US media (print, tv, internet, radio) is controlled by 6 companies. So I'd argue Che was correct in claiming that newspapers are instruments for the Oligarchy. Even if it wasn't true then it is exactly what happened. That being said there are certainly better ways of fixing the issue than abolishing the freedom of the press. These alternatives however, would certainly be labeled as communist in the US by the institutions they seek to change.

[JJ-zrwf]

You left out the part where he rap battled Guy Fawkes

[FeederBot]

"They would use the fear of communism to overthrow any government that threatened those profits" Yep, that's post-WW2 American history in a nutshell

[vadarman]

Love how one of the points the prosecutor makes is "Cuba gaining widespread literacy was bad, actually, cause then they'd become communists" lol

[toontrooper]

"And the statue of Lumumba, destroyed today but rebuilt tomorrow, reminds us of the tragic story of martyrdom of global revolution. That you cannot trust imperialism, not even for a minute. Not even a little." - Che

[luissanchez]

Latin American: * breathes *
CIA: *ThAt BeTtEr Be A fReEdOm BrEaThE*

[jahsiahbowie]

“Newspapers are the instruments of the oligarchy”
**cough** Jeff Bezos, Rupert Murdoch, and Mark Zuckerberg **cough**

[sirdouglas]

They failed to mention the economic embargo that America has had on Cuba for the past 60 years that has made the country extremely poor and another program of Che is that everyone in their country has great health care unlike the US and they send their doctors all over the world to help even our Native American reservations were helped by Cuban Drs during Covid because they had no care available otherwise.

[milkloverenterprises]

I've never heard the Ted-Ed narrator do different accents and voices. This is truly a life changing experience

[ngocongdung]

"Should revolutions be judged by their ideals or their outcomes ?"
We judge revolutions by their ideals, and judge governments by their outcomes.
If not, the French Revolution was absolutely meaningless to this world.

[deelie]

My grandpa was friends with him, his name was mentioned in his diary at one point but very briefly. My dad never met him however my uncle did and he gave him this camp set of a fork, knife and spoon in a metal container, which the entire family used every time they went camping for school haha. My grandpa went to jail for associations with him and communist related things, idk. Apparently during the time of his search, the letters exchanged between him and my grandpa were buried under my aunts house that was being built in Bolivia at the time. I wish i could go just demolish the house and look for those letters but i don't have much say in the family, especially living far away.

[nolovelost]

“He claimed that newspapers were instruments of the Oligarchy”

🤔. Can’t really disagree with him there.

[kevinloveshistory]

On several of my visits to Bolivia, I remember seeing pictures of Guevara in many places. He was very known around these parts especially from my dad. However I myself haven't known much about him besides labels like revolutionary or extremist so I came to this video with an open mind.

Here's my conclusion, while I don't agree with several of his actions and tactics, I think I would mostly be on his side because of how greedy and tyrannical the United States was on Latin America which he had the difficult task of matching. Although as I said, his heart may have been in the right place and he did do a lot of good in those nations, its just he did make some very questionable choices as well.