“A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies.”

—  Ernesto Che Guevara

Message to the Tricontinental (1967)

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Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928–1967

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