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Che Guevara Timeline

  • Che Guevara Birthday

    Che Guevara was born in Rosario, Argentina. His parents were Ernesto Guevara Lynch and Celia De la Serna.
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    University

    Che Guevara studied medicine in the medical school of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Entering in the political and revolutionary world

    Che Guevara meets Cuban Nico Lopez in Guatemala City, Nico was a veteran of the Moncada Attack on January 4. The same month due to the scarcity of resources and medical resources; Guevara begins to study Marxism to them get involved in several political activities. Along the way, he also meets Cuban Revolutionaries. On June 17, mercenary forces invade Guatemala backed up by the CIA. A few months later after Arbenz resigned, Che Guevara flew to Mexico City.
  • Join into the Revolutionary Forces

    Che Guevara meets Raul Castro in June in Mexico City after he and other prisoners were freed from prison on May 15. Che Guevara joins the revolutionary effort on July 7.
  • Las Villas Province

    Che Guevara sent his troops to Las Villas Province from the Sierra Maestra. He signed the Pedrero Pact and continues to move westward. Che Guevara reunited with the march 13 Revolutionary Directorate and a small guerrilla troop of the Socialist Party to divide the island by capturing several towns in Las Villas Province.
  • Presidency

    Revolutionary forces take control of Havana. On January 2, Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos arrived in Havana.
    On February 9, Guevara is declared a citizen of Cuba, after eight months, Guevara was appointed to be head of the Department of Industry of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA).
    A month later, on November 26 to be specific, the National Bank of Cuba appointed Guevara as President.
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    Communist Party of Cuba

    In 1964, Guevara meets Tamara Bunke and talks about the future expansion of the guerrilla troops to Bolivia. In December Guevara travels to New York to speak to the United Nations. In 1965, Guevara returns to Cuba. In April Guevara sent a letter to Castro and told him, he was visiting the Congo using a codename to hide his identity. On October 3, the Central Committee of the newly formed Communist Party of Cuba was introduced by Castro after reading the letter Che Guevara sent.
  • Bolivian Communist Party

    In 1966, the first Cuban soldiers flew to Bolivia. Guevara flew to Bolivia using fake passports and documents on November 4, a few days later Guevara arrived at the rebel camp. More soldiers arrived after that day. On December 31, Guevara meets the leaders of the Bolivian Communist Party, but both men disagree on the terms of expansion.
  • End of Che Guevara

    From February to March, guerrillas leave the camp to explore the Bolivian region. On March 23, Che Guevara has his first battle won successfully. Guevara ambush Bolivian troops and sent a message to the tricontinental. On October 9, Che Guevara is killed by the Bolivian Army.