Guevara's Asthma Attacks
During his journey through Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela, with his good friend Granado, Che Guevara had many asthma attacks (Richards). These attacks caused for Guevara to be put in medical care time after time. This gave them both time to experience all of the terrible conditions in the hospitals and in all the countries they traveled through. These experiences caused for Guevara to form a negative impression of the capitalists in South America. The major factor that caused for this negative outlook on the government and politics was when he went to the Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile, the working conditions were horrendous. Also when he visited the 15th century Incan ruins of Machu Picchu, which was gorgeous but the government
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This opened up Che Guevara’s eyes to the world of politics. He, after the motorcycle ride, was excited to get out and go explore some more. While on his trip around Bolivia and Guatemala, Guevara met Hilda Gadea, a Peruvian revolutionary who got exhaled from her country. Hilda taught Guevara the ways of Marxism, the belief, by Karl Marx that the struggle between different classes in society should no longer exist and there should be no segregation (Marxism). Hilda and Guevara’s revolutionary friends, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman and others, were the main influence on his new found radical views. Guevara tried to be a part of the Guatemalan revolution with Guzman but Guzman already took over the government. The CSI soon took over the government and Guevara and the Guatemalan labor party decided to stop the CSI. It did not work out well for them, only leaving Guevara with a bad reputation for being a revolutionary and a …show more content…
After finding out she was pregnant, they were in a hurry to get married so the public and family would not find out that they broke their religious values and had intercourse before marriage. Although Guevara had education and a family, he was not yet ready to live the domestic lifestyle that many others would choose. He never lived the life that he dreamed, he never became a revolutionary or a figure in the public eye. That was made possible in 1955, shortly after he came to Mexico City, when he was introduced to Cuban rebel Fidel Castro and his brother Raul. Fidel and Raul were living in exile in Mexico City, while they developed plans to overthrow the Cuban “leader” Fulgencio Batista. These three men quickly became very close because they had common goals and similar political beliefs. Guevara chose to help these two men, and eighty-two others in the revolution by signing up to be a physician and take care of them. After the intensive training at clandestine guerrilla warfare training camp, they were all shipped out on the yacht Granma. Even though many thought that this was a poorly planned and crazy attempt at invasion, the Granma ported in Cuba on December 2, 1956. Guevara went into the invasion as a physician but came upon a situation where he had to choose: bullets or his physicians kit. He chose his bullets, and after that he soon became a
This opened up Che Guevara’s eyes to the world of politics. He, after the motorcycle ride, was excited to get out and go explore some more. While on his trip around Bolivia and Guatemala, Guevara met Hilda Gadea, a Peruvian revolutionary who got exhaled from her country. Hilda taught Guevara the ways of Marxism, the belief, by Karl Marx that the struggle between different classes in society should no longer exist and there should be no segregation (Marxism). Hilda and Guevara’s revolutionary friends, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman and others, were the main influence on his new found radical views. Guevara tried to be a part of the Guatemalan revolution with Guzman but Guzman already took over the government. The CSI soon took over the government and Guevara and the Guatemalan labor party decided to stop the CSI. It did not work out well for them, only leaving Guevara with a bad reputation for being a revolutionary and a …show more content…
After finding out she was pregnant, they were in a hurry to get married so the public and family would not find out that they broke their religious values and had intercourse before marriage. Although Guevara had education and a family, he was not yet ready to live the domestic lifestyle that many others would choose. He never lived the life that he dreamed, he never became a revolutionary or a figure in the public eye. That was made possible in 1955, shortly after he came to Mexico City, when he was introduced to Cuban rebel Fidel Castro and his brother Raul. Fidel and Raul were living in exile in Mexico City, while they developed plans to overthrow the Cuban “leader” Fulgencio Batista. These three men quickly became very close because they had common goals and similar political beliefs. Guevara chose to help these two men, and eighty-two others in the revolution by signing up to be a physician and take care of them. After the intensive training at clandestine guerrilla warfare training camp, they were all shipped out on the yacht Granma. Even though many thought that this was a poorly planned and crazy attempt at invasion, the Granma ported in Cuba on December 2, 1956. Guevara went into the invasion as a physician but came upon a situation where he had to choose: bullets or his physicians kit. He chose his bullets, and after that he soon became a