Ernesto

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Ernesto Che Guevara

• An inspiration to
• Mecha activists
• Who is Che Guevara?

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Foto-Alberto KordaHavana, 1960
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Last Supper of Chicano HeroesJose Antonio
Burciaga-Stanford U
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Trendy fashion statement
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Che stuff
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Questions

• 1. Who is Che Guevara?
• 2. Why has be an inspiration to the
• Chicano movement? View of murals.
• 3. What is the meaning of Che today?

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Ernesto Guevara de la Sernael Che Biography

• Born 1928
• Rosario, Argentina

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Youth in Argentina

• Family moves to
• Buenos Aires

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University Education

• Medical degree
• 1948

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1st trip through Latin Americafilm Motorcycle
Diaries

• Profound impact
• 1. Commits life to the
• poor
• 2. Develops a broad
• Latin American
• vision
• 3. Travels to Chile,
• Peru, Bolivia

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1954--Guatemala

• Witness to the fall of
• Arbenz government
• US backed military coup
• US Opposed to land reform policies-to
• Help poor campesinos

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Exile in Mexico, 1955

• Meets Fidel Castro
• Joins Cuban revolutionaries
• Nickname Che
• Slang (Argentina)
• means friend

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Arrives in Cuba, 1956

• On Granma boat
• Enters Cuba with 81
• Revolutionaries
• Goal overthrow dictatorship of
• General Batista
• And initiate Revolution

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Guevaras route in Cuba

• Arrival of Granma in 1956
• Rebel stronghold in Sierra Maestra
• Guevaras Route to Havana via Santa Clara
• in December 1958

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Revolutionaries arrive in Cuba

• 82 leave Mexico
• 16 survive Batista
• attack

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Sierra Maestra, Cuba
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Guerilla WarfareSierra Maestra, Cuba
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Ches victory in Santa ClaraDecember 1958--
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Victory of Cuban Revolution1959

• Che works in Revolutionary gov.
• Economist
• Central Bank
• Agrarian Reform

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PhilosophyRevolutionary ethics

• Voluntary Work
• Anti-capitalist
• Believed in Moral incentives

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Advocate of African liberation,1964

• Cuba supports Angola with troops
• Che denounces the murder of of Lumumba (Congo) in
  a speech at the UN

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1965BoliviaRevolutionary struggle

• Goal
• Ignite revolution in Bolivia
• Oppression
• Indigenous peoples
• Workers in Tin mines
• Owned by US, BRITISH interests

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Che is taken prisoner in Bolivia, 1967
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Che murdered in Bolivia, 1967
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1997 Ches body returned to Cuba

• Buried in Santa Clara
• Monument in his honor
• Sight of victory over
• Batista army

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Named as Time Magazines 100 Most Influential
of 20th C.

• Only 2 Latin Americans named
• Other Pele
• Soccer player
• Brazil

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Murals and Visual art

• Linking Che Guevara and the
• Chicano Movement
• As hero and role model

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SymbolismChe and Chicano movement

• In USA
• Che is linked to struggle of Cesar Chavez
• justice for Chicano farm workers

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Symbolism

• Mexico
• link to ZapataRevolution
• link to Morelos/HidalgoStruggle
• against colonialism
• link to indigenous culture
• Struggle for Latin American
• political identity

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Chicano Park Murals 1-HistoricalSan Diego, 1970
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Chicano Murals, Tucson, 1970s
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Colegio Cesar Chavez, 1981Mt. Angel, ORegon
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Estrada Courts,Olympic Blvd 1978Mario Torero
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Chicano Pride
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Chicago, casa Aztlan
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Che as Saint/Christ figureVirgin of Guadalupe

• Religious/ moral/ Chicano identity

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Belfast Barrio mural, 1992Ruben Ortiz Torres
Gerald Kelly
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Legacy

• Cuban Revolution
• Revolutionary
• Struggle for social
• justice
• Herodies for cause
• of justice
• Anti-capitalist

• Chicano Movement
• Mexican Independence
• Anti-Imperialism
• Zapata Revolution
• Cesar Chavez Farm workers movement
• Latin American identity
• global level of struggle
• Virgin of Guadalupe-
• Mexican nationalism
• Cause of justice
• Indigenous rights