The true faces of the Che

Ernesto Guevara, better known as "Che Guevara", marked world history as the greatest known revolutionary.

Thanks to numerous testimonies and unpublished archive images, we were able to answer the big question concerning this Cuban legend : who really was Che Guevara ?
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[philippelouette]

Merci pour ce merveilleux documentaire sur le Ché. J'ai 74 ans et toute ma jeunesse a été peuplée par les aventures et les combats patriotiques d'Ernesto Che Guevara. Evidament, toutes les informations que nous trouvions à cette époque, passaient par le filtre CIA, qui le présentait comme un révolutionnaire sanguinaire ! Il a alimenté nos idéaux de justice sociale et de résistance à l'oppression. Pourtant, je ne suis jamais devenu Hasta Siempre, Commandante !

[schlafcomandanten]

"The CIA didn't want Che dead" ... Yeah, and the earth is flat.

[hotstepper]

“There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth, without diminishing its misery.” ~ Karl Marx

[Вадим-боо]

Великий, недосягаемый, Ангел Революции, нет больше таких людей, очень большая редкость. ❤

[loverlew]

1954--Guatemala
Ernesto became “Che” in Guatemala. It was here amidst the squalor of exploitive poverty and the savagery of the CIA backed bombing of women and children at the behest of what would become his lifetime enemy--The United Fruit Company and other international monopolies that the traveler became a revolutionary. Here his concern for the pobrecitos became a deep abiding anger that drove him to take aggressive actions for social change that were “revolutionary” to some but welcome deliverance to others.
He once told me he liked Guatemala above all other Latin American countries. I believe that is because at that time it was a gathering place for every would be revolutionary drawn there by the dynamic personality and promised social reforms of the new president Jacobo Arbenz. Ernesto, now called Che--the same colloquial Argentine slang by which he addressed others--loved the social ferment of a gathering of wide-eyed reformers. Though he was more laid back and introspective than most he could hold his own in any heated political debate, as always, taking the side of those who had no voice.
EXCERPT: CHE THE TRUE STORY - LEW OSTEEN AMAZON BOOKS

[augustobenjamin]

Freedom for the cuban people from the oppression respect from Nicaragua

[georgesimon]

"Let's be realistic. Demand the impossible" !!!

[benkeller]

A hero to some, a destroyer to others.
I do look up to him as an intellectual and freedom fighter.
He could have had a very comfortable life but chose to fight for freedom from oppression.

[alvarofortunatosamayoa]

El Salvador lo está haciendo, escuelas, escuelas y más escuelas, universidades, y más universidades, necesitamos educarnos, salgamos de la cheap esclavitud rescatemos Latino America. Nuestros nativos necesitan universidades, protejamos nuestra riqueza que es la agricultura.

[angus]

Badempanada has an excellent video on Che. Factual and well researched.

[accuser_of_the_brethren]

Read "The Motorcycle Diaries" in high-school study hall. I had his shirt (famous head shot of his face) before reading the book and realized how cringe it was to wear it without even knowing anything about him.

[brianfitzpatrick]

The famous poster image based on the Korda photo was created by irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick, deliberately without copyright. He deserves credit.

[syourke]

Che couldn’t remain in Cuba after his speech in Algiers criticizing the Soviet Union. Castro had no choice, given Cuba’s total reliance on the Soviets.

[analiliamoreno]

Let’s say it - in part the reason for Che to be so popular is because he was good looking, and loads of people have capitalised on that

[jamesbradshaw]

I am proud to say that the very great Che forefathers and mothers came from my town. strange how some people praise Che Guevara others hated him. I'm sure he did very wrong things but the man had a good heart and did a lot that was correct, of course the American government detested Che but then again American government hasn't always been correct in the many wars it started.

[eytansuchard]

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.

[ΧαρηςΧριστοδουλου-ψμ]

I am Greek and not a leftist or communist. But I kneel in front of the great Che and Aris the Greek leader of resistance against the Nazis a few years before the both fled to the Pantheon of the Heros

[dolanpatj]

Now, every time I watch something from Best Documentary, I can anticipate adding unique places like "Santa Clara Island" to my "Notable geographic locations" list.

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[wsegen]

70s, Colombia, virtually every bank, business building, some churches, even buses, had 3 pictures on their walls. the pope, jfk, and che.

[stellahanff]

Muito obrigada por este documentário! 🌷