On Dec. 11, 1964, Ernesto “Che” Guevara was invited to speak before the United Nations in New York — the largest city of his biggest enemy. Despite the obvious danger, Guevara accepted. Standing before the leaders of the world, he didn’t mince a single world.

He had created this role for himself. He, in a sense, had created his own identity. And then he lived by it. And in that sense was authentic. He actually was authentic." Wikimedia Commons Raul Castro, left, younger brother Fidel, has his arm around second-in-command, Ernesto “Che” Guevara in their Sierra de Cristal Mountain stronghold south of Havana, Cuba, during the Cuban revolution. June 1958.Following the conflict, Guevara fled to Mexico City where he married Hilda Gaeda, and, in 1955, met rebel leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, who were planning their own armed revolution to overthrow the government of Cuba’s dictator Fulgencio Batista. O’Hara tells of the multiple ‘interesting conversations with Che’ in the dining area of the Capri Hotel, where the crew of the 1959 film Our Man in Havana were staying. Claiming ‘Che would talk about Ireland and all the guerrilla warfare that had taken place there’, O’Hara was clearly in awe of the young charismatic Argentinean. She discovered that ‘he knew every battle in Ireland and all of its history’, which he learned, she insisted, from his grandmother ‘at her knee’. [13] While by and large a more serious examination of Guevara’s history, the reporting in Irish newspapers was still muddled and there were few if any mentions of the Irish heritage. One would assume that such a milestone invited those connections in Irish newspapers. Galway monument

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. His ideology promotes exporting revolution to any country whose leader is supported by the empire (United States) and has fallen out of favor with its citizens. Guevara talks about how constant guerrilla warfare taking place in non-urban areas can overcome leaders. He introduces three points that are representative of his ideology as a whole, namely that the people can win with proper organization against a nation's army; that the conditions that make a revolution possible can be put in place by the popular forces; and that the popular forces always have an advantage in a non urban setting. [2] Irish President, Michael D Higgins articulated a more understanding position, stating: ‘I think it is a very, very good discussion if people would discuss Latin America And his decision to take a small band of soldiers to help in Bolivia's uprising put an end to Guevara.In addition the unmarked collective grave, discovered in 1997, in which he was buried together with seven other fighters, is preserved, as well as other graves where other members of the group are buried, and identified by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team. Guevara was the eldest of five children in a middle-class family of Spanish-Irish descent and leftist leanings. Although suffering from asthma, he excelled as an athlete and a scholar, completing his medical studies in 1953. He spent many of his holidays traveling in Latin America, and his observations of the great poverty of the masses contributed to his eventual conclusion that the only solution lay in violent revolution. He came to look upon Latin America not as a collection of separate nations but as a cultural and economic entity, the liberation of which would require an intercontinental strategy. I will be on the side of the people,” he wrote in his diaries. “… I will take to the barricades and the trenches, screaming as one possessed, will stain my weapons with blood, and, mad with rage, will cut the throat of any vanquished foe I encounter." The school in which Che Guevara and some of his men were detained, questioned and murdered is located in the small hamlet of La Higuera, with 30 dwellings at altitude 2,160 meters. A well known monument to Guevara has been built, consisting of a large bust and a cross on a stone, next to the school where he died. The bust was placed in 1978 and the military governments of Bolivia during successive dictatorships tried repeatedly to destroy it; on each occasion it was rebuilt by unnamed people. Only five guerrillas managed to survive, and flee to Chile. These included Harry Villegas, a Cuban communist guerrilla who returned to Cuba and became a writer. Even decades after his death, the school children in Cuba begin each Friday morning by pledging: "Pioneers for communism, we will be like Che!"

The hospital Nuestro Señor de Malta (Our Lord of Malta) is preserved there, as well as its famous laundry where the bodies of Che Guevara and some of his men were shown to the public. This was the place where the famous photographs were taken by Freddy Alborta, a Bolivian photographer and documentary filmmaker. They show a dead Guevara with his eyes open, an image that evokes those of Jesus Christ. [4]The U.S. was no democracy, he said directly to the American government officials gathered in Uruguay on Aug. 8, 1961 at the Inter-American Economic and Social Council. The river Ñancahuazú flows into the great Río Grande, a few kilometers downstream from the place where the guerrilla camp had been set up. This was the scene of the"Ambush of Vado del Yeso", which resulted in the deaths of all the participants, including Tamara Bunke, apart from a guerrilla second column commanded by "Vilo" Acuña, a Cuban politician. After he arrived in Havana, he settled in at a hotel room above a bar. One afternoon, at the end of the day, [Ernest] Hemingway told him, ‘There’s something you should see,’ and to come by the house. When he arrived at Hemingway’s house he saw they were preparing for some sort of expedition….This group, including a few others, got in the car and drove for some time to the outside of town. While we only have O’Hara’s account of the meetings, it does offer us an interesting insight to a man who had now become one of the international faces of the Cuban revolution. Guevara’s brief visits to Ireland Guevara being interviewed in Ireland.