Che
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Che
He set goals for himself early in his life. After his studies at medical school in Buenos Aries, he decided to travel through Latin America. Che was already becoming involved in political activity in Guatemala. It was on beaten roads and out of the way, paths that Ernesto Guevara found his life, on a motorbike traveling through Latin America. It was on this journey that a medical student, son of a middle class family was exposing to the harsh conditions and extreme poverty
fellow of countrymen had to endure on a daily basis. Before he change the world the world changed him. According to his book of The Diaries of Ernesto Che Guevara, Che states that, "I'm still not sure what my future will be like" (pg27). Even though, Che was already helping as medical student in a general hospital over in Mexico but he was still interesting in politics. On the other hand, Che could have been a famous and outstanding medical doctor. He could have decided to live a fancy life with his family, in a fancy house. Instead, he walked the way as the soldier of the revolution and went beyond that, becoming commandant to be dispose to people all over the world. Che also states that "Also, I must confess that it seems to me that I would have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois couple who are worthy employees of meritorious institutions that I would wipe of"…(pg28). Che was more in to hunting than live a life of rewards. Che Guevara was medical student who had grown an extremely sympathetic towards the poor and oppressed people while he was in Latin America. His encounter with dreadful levels of poverty in South America countries changes him from being a medical student to an activist.
Che Guevara observed that social and economic inequality could be balance only by
revolution. Che experience and observations during the trip led him to conclude that there were economic inequalities. One of the ideas of Che was to help the farmers of Guatemala but he was hindered by the United States of America, he perceived the US as enemy which would not allow him to help the people who needed help. This was one