Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Omar Torrijos Herrera
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodriguez
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
• Born in Rosario, Argentina (About 300 km from Buenos Aires)
• Physician
• Author
• Traveler
• Politician
• Military Theorist
• Guerrilla leader during Cuban revolution
• Influenced by: Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Engels, Frantz Fanon, José Carlos
Mariátegui
Celia de la Serna and Ernesto Guevara Lynch
with Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/state_and_revolution/Che_Guevara.htm
Shortly after he was born, his parents attempted to carve a yerba-maté plantation out of the
jungle—on a “narrow stretch of lava and mud hemmed in between Brazil and Paraguay,” Juan
Martin (Ernesto Guevara’s younger brother) writes in his book.
http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/state_and_revolution/Che_Guevara.htm
Ernesto started by building a chalet on stilts, overlooking the
Parana River. *Guevara Family Archive
Che was born premature—tiny and sickly—
in Rosario, Argentina, where his father
took a rough approach to infant rearing.
According to TIME’s 1960 cover story about
the revolutionary, baby Che was left to sun
on a balcony, wearing only a diaper, in 45°
winter weather. Moreover, he was plunged
into cold baths and doused in icy showers.
Instead of toughening him up, however,
this tactic left him with a persistent cough
and severe asthma. Which years later was
reason to be disqualified from the military
service.
https://time.com/4055772/che-guevara-health/
https://www.hcplive.com/view/3066
Guevara was the eldest of five children in a middle-class family
of Spanish-Irish descent and leftist leanings.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-memoir-of-life-as-che-guevaras-kid-brother
Guevara was the eldest of five children in a
middle-class family of Spanish-Irish descent and
leftist leanings. Although suffering from asthma,
he excelled as an athlete and a scholar,
completing his medical studies in 1953. He
spent many of his holidays traveling in Latin
America, and his observations of the great
poverty of the masses contributed to his
eventual conclusion that the only solution lay in
violent revolution. He came to look upon Latin
America not as a collection of separate nations
but as a cultural and economic entity, the
liberation of which would require an
intercontinental strategy.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
pictured circa 1950.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Che-Guevara
Medical school and Motorcycle
diaries…
During this trip, when he was still a medical
student, accompanied by his friend Dr.
Alberto Granado a Biologist, 29 year old by
the time, he gave lectures and helped
spread the truths about leprosy, so that the
sick people were accepted by society and
adequately cared for by doctors. He critically
observed the environment of the
leprosarium he visited and made
recommendations to improve them, which
would favor the rehabilitation of the
patients, whom he even treated and not
only healed the body, but also the soul with
its humanism without prejudice.
http://scielo.sld.cu/pdf/mil/v50n1/1561-3046-mil-50-01-e610.pdf
Along with his friend Granado, Guevara visited the San Pablo leprosy colony in Peru
attracted by the work of peruvian Doctor Hugo Pesce.
https://sites.google.com/macalester.edu/phla/biographies/che-guevara-a-revolutionarys-medicine
He kept the notes during and
after this trip about
adventures that he
experienced, and it got
published first as “Notas de
Viaje” which was later
renamed “The Motorcycle
Diaries” after the movie
made based on his notes
with consent of his family
and his friend A. Granado
who accompanied him part
of his journey.
https://brisacubana.com/travel-tips/che-guevara/
At age 26, Guevara arrived in
Mexico. He had spent five weeks
in Bolivia and nine months in
Guatemala, where he witnessed
the overthrow of reformist
president Jacobo Arbenz by a
CIA-backed military coup. The
event forever fixed his hatred of
the United States. By then he
was a convinced Marxist, and
ardent admirer of the Soviet
Union. Married to a Guatemalan
woman, Hilda Galea circa 1955. https://www.soy502.com/articulo/guatemala-etapa-decisiva-che-guevara-100931
Soon after they first met, Guevara joined the 26th of July Movement and after
they would frequently meet at the Cafe La Habana Mexico City
https://www.nomadicbackpacker.com/che-guevara-meets-fidel-castro-mexico-city.html
During the Summer of 1956, Guevara, Castro and several Cubans were arrested for Illegal
possession of firearms and were jailed for a short period.
After their release, they set sail for Cuba and within 2 years had overthrown Batista.
The voyage of the 'Granma' and the beginning
of the Cuban revolution. On November 25,
1956, Che, Fidel Castro and 80 other guerrillas
set sail aboard an old 13-meter yacht called
'Granma' heading to Cuba. The journey is
eventful and ends with a shipwreck on the
eastern coast of the island. Batista's troops
receive the shipwrecked with air and army
attacks. A little more than a dozen guerrillas
survive, settling on the slopes of Sierra Maestra.
https://www.bbc.com/mundo/resources/idt-sh/che_guevara_viajes_mundo
He recorded the two years
spent overthrowing Batista’s
government in Pasajes de la
guerra revolucionaria (1963;
Reminiscences of the Cuban
Revolutionary War, 1968).
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Che-Guevara
Ernesto Che Guevara vs Víctor Korchnoi, URSS Chess Champion.
La Habana, Cuba.
https://ctxt.es/es/20220701/Culturas/40280/Miguel-de-Lucas-Che-Guevara-ajedrez-el-juego-infinito-Miguel-Najdorf-Ludek-Pachman.htm
Mao Zedong and
Ernesto “Che” Guevara
November, 1960.
https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.or
g/document/memorandum-
conversation-between-mao-zedong-
and-ernesto-che-guevara
Speaking on behalf of Cuba,
Argentinean-born Ernesto "Che"
Guevara responds to questions
regarding his accent, affirming he is
Cuban and willing to die for the
liberation of any Latin American
country. January 1st 1964
https://www.unmultimedia.org/classics/asset/C816/C816/
Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to foment continental revolutions across both Africa and
South America, first unsuccessfully in Congo-Kinshasa and later in Bolivia, where he
was captured by CIA-assisted Bolivian forces and summarily executed.
https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1654785153_40108.html
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/en-espanol/sdhoy-fidel-betrayed-che-abandoned-him-in-bolivia-cuban-2015apr28-story.html
“‘Calm yourself,’ he told me, ‘and aim well! You are going to kill a man!’
Then I took a step back toward the door, close my eyes and fired.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/10/bolivian-soldier-killed-ernesto-che-guevara-dies
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB5/
Che the icon: legacy
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/iconic-photography-che-guevara-alberto-korda-
cultural-travel-180960615/
Omar Efrain Torrijos Herrera
sixth of eleven children. His father, José Maria Torrijos, was
originally from Colombia, and was employed as a teacher his
mother Joaquina Herrera Gordillo was Panamanian.
Educated at a military school in El Salvador, Torrijos also studied
military-related subjects in the United States and Venezuela. In
1952 he was commissioned second lieutenant in the National
Guard of Panama (Guardia Nacional; the country’s only military
force), becoming lieutenant colonel (1966), colonel (1968), and
brigadier general (1969). In October 1968 he participated in a
coup by the National Guard that overthrew President Arnulfo
Arias, and he gradually emerged as leader of the new military
junta with the title Chief of Government and Supreme Leader
of the Panamanian Revolution.
Transfer of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone to Panamanian sovereignty became Torrijos’s main
objective, and he pursued it to a successful conclusion when on September 7, 1977, he and President
Jimmy Carter of the United States signed two treaties by which the transfer would take place gradually;
Panama assumed full control of the canal on December 31, 1999.
In the election of October 1978, Torrijos declined to run for the presidency, though he retained command of
the National Guard. He died in an airplane crash in a jungle area while making a military inspection tour.
In 2004 his son, Martín Torrijos Espino was elected
President of Panama
Manuel Antonio Noriega
Noriega was brought up by a godmother in a one-room
apartment in the slum area of Terraplén.
Both his parents were dead by the time he was five years old.
Educated at one of the top high
schools in Panama, he was
awarded a scholarship to the
Chorrillos Military School in Lima.
Upon his return to Panama, he was
commissioned a sublieutenant in
the National Guard and stationed
in Colón, where he rose through
the ranks and became acquainted
with Captain Omar Torrijos.
Noriega participated in the military coup that toppled the government of Arnulfo Arias and paved
the way for Torrijos’s rise to power. Noriega was instrumental in defeating a later coup attempt to
unseat Torrijos.
Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodriguez
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Nicaragua (1990); Mireya Moscoso, Panamá (1999), Laura
Chichilla, Costa Rica (2010) y ahora asume el cargo en Honduras Xiomara Castro (2022).
