Today is the day when Che Guevara married the love of his life (and his second wife), the Cuban revolutionary fighter Aleida March 55 years ago.
It might not have been an easy marriage, considering Che's frequent journeys around Cuba and abroad, away from his wife, and their own free-spoken personalities, (and of course, his ex-wife, Hilda Gadea and his first child, Hildita in the background), still they had four children together and they looked happy when they were together.  

Sixty years ago, in June 1954, a CIA-orchestrated coup ousted the reformist Guatemalan government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. The coup installed a brutal right-wing regime and decades of bloody repression.

This event, so notorious in the annals of US imperialism, also Guevara. For it was in the Central American nation, where Guevara's Latin American road trip culminated, that the strands of his early thought Marxism, anti-imperialism, indigenismo were fused in a dramatic, galvanising moment.

It transformed the young, middle-class Argentine medical graduate with deeply-felt, if still unformed, leftist leanings into a fully-conscious socialist revolutionary who dedicated his life to liberating the Third World from capitalist domination.

Throughout his life, Guevara responded to the spectacle of mass poverty (which he had first encountered as a child in provincial Argentina) with a natural sense of sympathy for the oppressed. This ability to perceive and be troubled by such suffering was a significant achievement in itself; most of his fellow Latin American “creole” middle-classes lived (and live) an insular, self-referential existence, wilfully and utterly blind to disturbing social realities.

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2008-ban, Che Guevara születésének nyolcvanadik évfordulóján, számos dél-amerikai grafikus készített plakátot, tisztelgésül az argentín forradalmár előtt.
Ezeket a csodálatos munkákat tekinthetitek meg a [Homenaje a Ernesto Che Guevara] linkre kattintva. 

Utóirat a spanyolul nem tudóknak: az ochenta azt jelenti: nyolcvan.
 

In 2008, on the 80th anniversary of Che Guevara's birth, several South-American artists created posters, in homage to the Argentinian revolutionary.
You can check out these wonderful pieces of arts if you click on this link: [Homenaje a Ernesto Che Guevara].

P.S. for the non-Spanish speakers: "ochenta" means "eighty".
 

Köszönhetően a kedves Shams Ehabnak, négy újabb gyönyörű (és színes!) fénykép került az 1964-es havannai fotózásról készült albumba.

Nézzétek meg: [Album]

A könnyebb megtekintés kedvéért kattintsatok közvetlenül ide: [Legfrissebb feltöltések]
 

Thanks to the dear Shams Ehab, four beautiful (and colour!) photographs have been uploaded to the album of the photo shooting in Havana, 1964.

Check them out: [Album]

You can check them out easily here: [Latest uploads]
 

Here you can read a long interview with Martin Guevara, Che Guevara's nephew.
Martin is not really a supporter of the Cuban Revolution, (he can enter the country anytime but he is not allowed to live there anymore), but he is quite open-minded and not prejudiced - unlike Cuban exiles from Florida.
In this fresh interview (published on 27th May) Martin Guevara talks about Che, Fidel Castro and Cuba, among other things, frankly.

Teaser:

"I believe that he [Che] had the uncommon quality of always putting his own skin on the line for what he thought, of not lying even about this, when he said in the United Nations, “We have shot, we continue to shoot and we will shoot more,” in a very harsh declaration. Today in this world where hundreds of millions are dead because of avarice and violence, I’d like to hear at least similar words from those responsible: “We have caused hunger, we still cause hunger and we will continue to cause hunger in Africa to obtain diamonds;” or “We have bombed, we bomb and we will bomb further to reap the benefits for ourselves,” etc."

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