why is che guevara considered to be a hero in cuba?

Question

I know that he is also considered a hero, but why some think of him as a hero? what did he do to make him so heroic?

Answer 1

Because although not a Cuban he dedicated himself to Castro and the revolution and played a prominent role as a soldier and doctor during the revolution. After the revolution he was a trusted confidant of Castro and served in various positions, until he left Cuba to find other revolutions to fight.

He was handsome, intelligent, charismatic, and doomed, just the sort of person to be a martyr, and a hero. Dying young and betrayed also guaranteed him a place in people's hearts.

Answer 2

Che Guevara has this cult of personality thing going because he was the dashing face that was the poster child for Cuba's communist revolution.

He's considered a hero in Cuba because what else would you expect from their state education?

His popularity comes more from trendy stores which stock shirts with his dashing glare imprinted on it, because to teenagers who hate their parents, rebelling against society is "cool", without realizing that buying marxist symbols at a capitalist store is oxymoronic.

Read an objective history of Guevara, he was cruel, boorish, and stupid. His hobby was strangling political opponents with his bare hands. He was "wounded" bravely fighting an American invasion, which was actually just a bunch of fireworks going off. In Africa, he was known as "tatu", and African marxists were loathe to have him, due to his habit of making a mess of things. On several occasions it was his ineptitude that caused the revolution to fail in the first place!

It's a cult of personality though, he has come to represent rebelling, much in the same way that southerners use the Naval Jack of the confederacy as a way of asserting their independence.

Answer 3

Because Che was a true revolutionary to the bitter end. Lenin, Mao, Castro, they all sold out. They had countries to run. Not Che! His conscience wouldn't let him sit on his butt running Cuba's national bank (which he actually did for a couple of years -- today the banknotes with his signiture are valuable collectors' items) while there were still oppressed people in the world awaiting liberation. He fought in Africa and South America, where the CIA finally tracked him down and killed him in Bolivia in 1967.

Answer 4

He was Castro's right hand man. And the two of them "liberated" Cuba. But Che died not long after trying to lead another revolution, and became a martyr before he became a dictator.

Personally, I see him as a warmonger. Instead of staying in Cuba to help form a good government, he rushed off to South America to start another revolution. So he didn't really care about the people he liberated, he just cared about toppling the governments. That's my view anyway.

Answer 5

Che became a thug, a coward, a mass assassin of girls individuals, little ones, blacks, in certainty whomever he felt like killing. Delusional on the tip. in no way what you think approximately a great chief or everyday. Time magazine tale honoring Che as a hero and icon of the century, the tale of an imprecise Argentine scientific professional who deserted his occupation and place of start to pursue the emancipation of the undesirable of the earh...... end! first of all there is not any information that he became ever a physician. next, in accordance to his writings,He initially headed for Venezuala with the belief of ending up interior the U. S.. because of the fact those have been the main suitable places to make money.

Answer 6

While in Mexico in 1956, Guevara joined Fidel Castro's revolutionary 26th of July Movement, which seized power from the regime of the dictator General Fulgencio Batista in Cuba in 1959. In the months after the success of the revolution, Guevara was assigned the role of "supreme prosecutor", overseeing the trials and executions of hundreds of suspected war criminals from the previous regime.
After serving in various important posts in the new government and writing a number of articles and books on the theory and practice of guerrilla warfare, Guevara left Cuba in 1965 with the intention of fomenting revolutions first in Congo-Kinshasa, and then in Bolivia, where he was captured in a military operation supported by the CIA and the U.S. Army Special Forces.
Guevara was summarily executed by the Bolivian Army in the town of La Higuera near Vallegrande on October 9, 1967.

After his death, Guevara became an icon of socialist revolutionary movements and a key figure of modern pop culture worldwide.
An Alberto Korda photo of him has received wide distribution and modification, appearing on t-shirts, protest banners, and in many other formats. The Maryland Institute College of Art called this picture "the most famous photograph in the world and a symbol of the 20th century. I hope this helps.

Answer 7

Well, che guevara was seen as a hero, because he liberated cuba from a dictatorship... That's mostly the reason

Answer 8

He was a leader with the Castro brothers of the Cuban revolution. While many here in the USA consider him only a terrorist, especially because of his support for Communist movements throughout South America, the government deposed in Cuba was very corrupt,and he was supporting his leaders' decision to go with Communism to insure the Cuban people were fed and supported.

Answer 9

Really he was just a goat farmer who thought he could make some extra money selling t-shirts and posters. You can't start a revolution these days without good marketing....just look at Hitler.

Answer 10

Well it's sort of "'Ello squire, haven't seen you for a bit, haven't seen you for a bit either, Beryl. Two pints of wallop please, love. Still driving the Jensen then? Cheer up Jack it may never happen. What's your poison then