Che Guevara met an undignified death in a dilapidated school in Bolivia, at the hands of a CIA-backed counterrevolution. The generation that would see him the most hadn't yet been born, and many of that generation didn't know why this well-drawn face was on Hot Topic hats, T-shirts, and posters. They will not know that that face was the last hope of communism, destroyed after the imperialist world joined forces to destroy the possibility of true communism in the known world. Adolescence Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was born in Rosario, Argentina, on June 14, 1928. He was the eldest of five children and was of Irish and Spanish descent. He was a fierce and passionate rugby player, despite being asthmatic. His ferocity earned him the nickname "Fuserh, a slang for the furious. Like many Latino teenagers of his generation, he was enthusiastic about poetry, writing and reading. He was also a zealous reader and loved everything from Jack London to Sigmund Freud (Wikipedia). Motorcycle Diaries In 1952 (The Motorcycle Diaries), a semester before earning his doctorate, Ernesto decided to take a motorcycle trip across the continent with a long-time friend and biochemist, the journey of Alberto Granado What was life His journey was very hard: they lost their tent at the beginning of the journey and had to ask complete strangers for a place to sleep. In his travels he saw the poor and the oppressed, especially a day or two spent with a homeless communist couple, whose land was repossessed by a land speculator and had to leave their son behind and run away in search of work (The Motorcycle Diaries Ernesto and Alberto yes). are offered volunteers at a leper colony in the Amazon when they went to treat lepers Across the river, they were ordered to wear gloves, which really wouldn't have made any difference, and was more of a symbol of segregation. To the anger of the nuns who ran the colony, they refused to wear gloves and shook hands with everyone they met. One of the nuns later refused to feed them (The Motorcycle Diaries). On his birthday and last day at the colony, Ernesto toasted a united South America, in front of the astonished silence of his group. They descended the Amazon by raft and Ernesto returned by plane to Argentina in April 1953.Events and Trips in GuetemalaErnesto, convinced