Che Guevara: A Life from Beginning to End (Revolutionaries)

by Hourly History

“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” —President John F. Kennedy

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In a great irony, despite all of Che’s efforts to galvanize the local peasants to his side, he had one sell him out for the peso equivalent of thirty pieces of silver.

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Even if you can say nothing else good about Che Guevara, even his most hateful detractors have to admit that Che was a man of non-compromising determination when it came to his own ideals and beliefs. It was his own purity of ideology that often left him at odds with his own associates.

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While Castro was willing to wheel and deal with the Soviets in order to get concessions on trade, Che Guevara would refuse to move an inch if it meant he had to compromise even in the slightest from his own deeply held beliefs and convictions. It was this resolute adherence that caused Fidel and many of his contemporaries to wish for Che to leave Cuba.

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They found that his idealism was a fire that burned so bright that they would get burned if they got too close to him.

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