Mark Steel Lectures - Che Guevara
Che Guevara was born in Argentina in 1928; initially he trained to be a doctor but became politically conscious and
abandoned his vocation in order to travel across South America on the back of a motorbike. It was in Mexico in 1955
that Che met a young Fidel Castro who with his brother Raul had been exiled from his Cuban homeland and was preparing
for an uprising there by training a crack squad of rebels in the Mexican countryside. This was Che's calling.
It's what he'd been waiting his whole life for. It was his destiny.
In this latest edition of his BAFTA nominated series of lectures, writer and broadcaster Mark Steel travels to
South America and turns his attentions to the life and revolutionary times of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, a man who started out
on a motorcycle holiday, only to end up being made Foreign Minister of Cuba. Which of course is nice work if you can get it.
(from open2.net)
| Mark Steel Lectures - Che Guevara |
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| Che Guevara - wikipedia Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928-1967), commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. |
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