“My Marxism has taken root and become purified. I believe in armed struggle as the only solution for those peoples who fight to free themselves, and I am consistent with my beliefs.”

—  Ernesto Che Guevara

Last Letter to his Parents (1965)

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Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928–1967

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