Ernesto "Che" Guevara, an Argentine Marxist revolutionary and surgeon, was killed in Bolivia in 1967 at the age of 39.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna was a key figure in the Cuban Revolution and an Argentine Marxist revolutionary. Guevara studied medicine before traveling around South America, where he witnessed the conditions that fueled his Marxist ideas. Guevara left his job in 1965, with the Cuban economy in shambles, to export his revolutionary ideals to other areas of the world. He originally went to the Congo to train men in guerrilla warfare in support of a revolution there, but he returned later that year when the revolution collapsed.
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