Less respect for the legal conventions was displayed by Castro's right hand man, Che Guevara, who edified the Inter-American Economic and Social council meeting in Montevideo by reading two secret American documents purloined from the United States embassy at Caracas, Venezuela.

But their support turned to opposition as the pro-Soviet Che Guevara wing of the movement began to dominate and as Castro turned against American interests.

He was also allegedly involved in a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro ; documents uncovered during congressional investigations into John F Kennedy's death bring to light a message outlining how he had plans to assassinate Castro, his brother Raúl Castro, and Che Guevara.

In 1963, shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1, 500 DI agents, including Che Guevara, were invited to the USSR for intensive training in intelligence operations.

* 1956 – The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.

* 1964 – Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.

Che Guevara visiting Gaza, 1959

In the 1960s the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara developed the foco () theory of revolution in his book Guerrilla Warfare, based on his experiences during the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and the 26th of July Movement in the Cuban Revolution.

* Che, Steven Soderbergh's two-part 2008 biopic about Che Guevara starring Benicio del Toro as Che.

* Che Guevara, Argentine-born revolutionary.

* 1953 – Ernesto " Che " Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.

Jean Paul Sartre ( middle ) and Simone de Beauvoir ( left ) meeting with Che Guevara ( right ) in Cuba, 1960

Sartre went to Cuba in the 1960s to meet Fidel Castro and spoke with Ernesto " Che " Guevara.

The Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara summed up his own appeal to Marxism by stating that Marx produced " a qualitative change in the history of social thought.

Argentine communist revolutionary Che Guevara ( left ) and Fidel Castro, leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008

In Cuba in 1959, forces led by Fidel Castro and Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista and established a communist regime there with ties to the Soviet Union.

Bolivia faced Marxist-Leninist revolution in the 1960s that included Che Guevara as a leader until being killed there by government forces.

Cuba's Ministry of the Interior with art portraying Che Guevara.

* Che Guevara

* The iconic image of Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara, being splattered with a cream pie ( January 1972 ).

* 1967 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.

* 1967 – A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto " Che " Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.

McLaren has also provided a comparative study concerning Paulo Freire and the Argentinian revolutionary icon Che Guevara.

* McLaren, Peter ( 2000 ) Che Guevara, Paulo Freire and the Pedagogy of Revolution, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.

* Cuban Revolution ( 1953 – 1959 ) – The 1959 overthrow of Fulgencio Batista by Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and other forces resulted in the creation of the first communist government in the western hemisphere.

* October 17 – The remains of Che Guevara are laid to rest with full military honours in a specially built mausoleum in the city of Santa Clara, Cuba, where he had won the decisive battle of the Cuban Revolution 39 years before.

Che Guevara, though initially praising the Soviet Union prior to, during and shortly after the Cuban Revolution, later came out in support of Maoism, and advocated the adoption of the ideology throughout Latin America.

Both Kember and Pierce continue to perform some Spacemen 3 songs live ( e. g. " Transparent Radiation ", " Revolution ", " Suicide ", " Set Me Free ", " Che " and " Let Me Down Gently " ; and " Walkin ' with Jesus ", " Amen " and " Lord Can You Hear Me?

Raised in an anarchist family that had left Spain before the Spanish Civil War, he became a key figure of the Cuban Revolution, along with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Juan Almeida Bosque, and Raúl Castro.

However protracted war should not be confused with the " foco " theory employed by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution of 1959.

On the whole, the original 1960s-era anti-revisionists tended to take a careful, selective approach to the Cuban Revolution and the way it soon aligned itself with Soviet ideas and practice, criticizing the latter action, while simultaneously acknowledging some aspects of Cuban self-described socialism as genuinely revolutionary — in particular the writing and thinking of Che Guevara.

* Che Guevara, Cuba, And The Algerian Revolution by Ahmed ben Bella, The Militant, Vol.

* Max Elbaum, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che ( Verso, 2002 ) ISBN 1-85984-617-3

During the 1960s, the PRT adopted the foquista strategy of insurgency associated with Che Guevara, who had fought alongside Fidel Castro during the Cuban Revolution.

The two American Trotskyists came to the conclusion to fully support the Cuban Revolution and the leadership of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.

For example, the famous Argentine revolutionary Ernesto " Che " Guevara earned his nickname from his frequent use of the expression, which to his Cuban comrades in the Cuban Revolution, was a curious feature of his idiolect.

Guevarism is a theory of communist revolution and a military strategy of guerrilla warfare associated with Marxist revolutionary Ernesto " Che " Guevara, one of the leading figures of the Cuban Revolution.

Tuxpan was also the port of departure for the yacht Granma that was used to transport Fidel Castro, his brother Raúl, Che Guevara and other fighters of the Cuban Revolution from Mexico to Cuba in 1956 for the purpose of overthrowing the regime of Fulgencio Batista.

* The Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a nationalistic revolution led by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara which overthrew former president Fulgencio Batista and instated a socialist regime later on in Cuba.

José Fructuoso Gómez, nicknamed Che Gómez directed a 1910 revolt in support of the Mexican Revolution, allied with Zapata and Villa.

Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che.

In the same year, Maestro also appeared in the Argentine film, La Niña Santa ( aka The Holy Girl ), directed by Lucrecia Martel, as well as the Focus Features film The Motorcycle Diaries, ( Golden Globe nominee 2005 Best Foreign Film ) based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution.

Revolution in the Air: 1960s Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che.

An early close confidant of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, he has remained a central figure in Cuba since the 1959 Revolution.

Huber Matos Benítez ( born November 26, 1918 ) was a Cuban revolutionary who assisted Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and members of the 26th of July Movement in successfully overthrowing the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista as part of the Cuban Revolution.