Symbol of Latin American revolution, the guerrilla printed on T-shirts worldwide
An Argentine-born revolutionary, a central figure of the Cuban Revolution. A medical student by training, traveling through Latin America he witnessed the suffering of the poor and turned to armed revolution, joining Castro to overthrow Cuba’s old regime. He then gave up high office to keep exporting revolution to the Congo and Bolivia, and was finally captured and executed in Bolivia. He is revered by some as a martyr of resistance and idealism, and criticized by others as an advocate of violence with ruthless methods. And his portrait — beret, resolute gaze — detached from any specific politics, became the most famous symbol of "rebellion" in global pop culture. This site states the facts and the sharply divided verdicts without adjudicating.
The photograph of Guevara in a beret, gazing into the distance, was later printed on countless T-shirts, posters, and flags, becoming one of the most widely circulated images in the world. The irony is that this anti-capitalist revolutionary ended up a heavily commercialized trademark of "rebellion" — his face traveled further, and was flattened more, than his ideas.
Guevara is revered by some as a martyr of idealism and criticized by others as an advocate of violence with ruthless methods; the verdicts are sharply opposed, and this site states the facts and the dispute without adjudicating.
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