COMMUNISM:CHE GUEVERRA IS NUMBER ONE SOLDIER

COMMUNISM:CHE GUEVERRA IS NUMBER ONE SOLDIER

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU..

If the history of modern guerrilla tactic s in military warfare is told and the names of Che Gueverra is not mentioned  then it is obvious that the scholars involved in the study have not done enough Justice to the topic.

Che Gueverra was a medical doctor by university educational training but it was in the art and fields of military revolution that he found a very great joy.

His was a life that found great ecstasy in working and walking towards tragedy but in the end even before he bid this realm goodbye ,he found immortality.

Che as he is called so often was only 23 years old when he began his endless journeys around The Americas in an attempt to free the people from very oppressive national government ..

He left Argentina to see the world of his dreams and he went to such places as Guatemala,Mexico,Cuba,Bolivia where he was killed ,Peru,Colombia,Congo,Tanzania amongst several others.

Guevara speaks of his passion for humanity:"The night ,folding in at contact with his words over took me  again, enveloping me within it"

"But despite his words,i now know and i knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halve i would be with the people"

The first meetings in Guatemala with the Cuban revolutionaries though he did not yet but it helped to launch Che to a new path of searching ,investigations and adventure..

Gueverra continues :"one political event is meeting Fidel Castro ,the Cuban Revolutionary ,an intelligent Young man  who is very sure of himself  and extra ordinarily bold ,i think we like each other"

In a tribute a year after his passage  by his good friend,Mr Tita Infante ,the latter had good  and kind words as tributes to the departed

Infante speaks:"His brave body on a miserable canvas mat ,his beautiful head with the areaola of the  guerilla 's beard and mane ,his face that of Christ without the rictus of pain "

"Earth and wood ,spring water ,wild vitality,Ernesto has died but he had already been born eternal like he always  lived joyously following the path to tragedy but death ended his journey and opened the doors to the life he had so desired "

"The memory of Ernesto ,his life,his struggles ,will always live on in the hearts of the people of this world "

Che Gueverra  was one of those men who was one of destiny's rare gifts to humanity ,one of TIME Magaine's icons of the century was born and bred in Argentina in 1928"

As a young Argentine medical student he travelled extensively throughout Latin America ,finding himself in Guatemala in 1954 when a United States backed coup over turned the popular Arbenz regime.

He fled to Mexico  where  he met with the group of Cuban revolutionaries in exile who nicknamed him "Che"

After fighting alongside  Fidel Castro in the 2 years guerilla war  in Cuba ,he became a leader of the Revolutionary Government in 1959 but always made clear to his colleagues that his ultimate aim was to return to the Latin American revolutionary mine fields..

He had led a guerrilla mission to Bolivia in 1967 where he was captured by hostile soldiers and killed the following day.