Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara or el Che, was an Argentine doctor, Marxist revolutionary, politician, and Cuban guerrilla leader. Guevara was a member of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement that seized power in Cuba in 1959. 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 the Congo-Kinshasa (later named the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and then in Bolivia, where he was captured in a CIA-organized military operation. After his capture in the Yuro ravine, CIA agent Felix Rodríguez claims that he interrogated Guevara and transmitted the order to the Bolivian soldiers that he was to be killed. Guevara died at the hands of the Bolivian Army in La Higuera near Vallegrande on October 9, 1967.








