Logo: Fidel Castro

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Question SA-3. Here is the text reference (p. 208/last):

Guevara was an Argentine, born to a upper-middle-class family with leftist political views. He was educated as a doctor, but rather than starting a practice in Argentina he traveled to the revolutionary Guatemala of Arbenz and then to Mexico, where he joined up with Fidel Castro's movement. He was one of the twelve survivors of the original 1956 return to Cuba, and fought alongside Fidel for the full period of guerrilla warfare in a dual capacity as doctor and guerrilla commander. After the triumph of the Revolution he was given important posts, such as head of the Agrarian Reform Institute and the National Bank. He was identified with the more radical group in Fidel's government, and favored the Maoist Peking line of Marxism over the more traditional Moscow line. In 1965 he mysteriously disappeared, and it later turned out that he had been fighting with rebels in the Congo. A year later he disappeared again to start a revolutionary "foco" in Bolivia. But his group of Cubans and other outsiders were never able to obtain a meaningful following among the Bolivian peasants, and he was finally captured by a Bolivian Army Ranger unit and executed in October 1967.