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|occupation = Revolutionary leader

|hobby = Writing up death lists, killing people

|goals = Establish Communist rule in Cuba (succeeded)<br>Spread Communism to other countries (partially successful)

|goals = Establish Communist rule in Cuba (succeeded)<br>Spread [[Communism]] to other countries (partially successful)

|type of villain = Anti-Villain

|motive =

}}{{Quote|We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.|Che Guevara}}'''Ernesto "Che" Guevara''' (June 14, 1928 - October 9, 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia within popular culture.

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{{Quote|We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.|Che Guevara}}

'''Ernesto "Che" Guevara''' (June 14, 1928 - October 9, 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia within popular culture.

As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed. His burgeoning desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Árbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow at the behest of the United Fruit Company solidified Guevara's political ideology. Later, while living in Mexico City, he met Raúl and [[Fidel Castro]], joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht, Granma, with the intention of overthrowing Cuban dictator [[Fulgencio Batista]]. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second-in-command, and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.

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This impeccably high-brow scholarly study found that Castro and Guevara’s firing squads murdered between 15 and 17 thousand Cubans, the equivalent, given the U.S. population, of almost one million executions.

But enough about Cubans. Let’s come home for a second. Fortunately for Time magazine (headquartered in Manhattan) on Nov. 17, 1962 as the clock clicked down on a terror plot that would have possibly incinerated and entombed more people than [[Al-Qaeda]] [[September 11 attacks|~~attack on~~ 9/11]], a man they vilify ([[J. Edgar Hoover]]) thwarted their “hero and icon” (Che Guevara).

But enough about Cubans. Let’s come home for a second. Fortunately for Time magazine (headquartered in Manhattan) on Nov. 17, 1962 as the clock clicked down on a terror plot that would have possibly incinerated and entombed more people than [[Al-Qaeda]] [[September 11 attacks|attack on 9/11]], a man they vilify ([[J. Edgar Hoover]]) thwarted their “hero and icon” (Che Guevara).

Che Guevara headed Cuba’s “Foreign Liberation (i.e. terrorism) Dept.” at the time and his agents had targeted Macy’s, Gimbel’s, Bloomingdales, and Manhattan’s Grand Central Station with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. The holocaust was set for detonation the following week, on the day after Thanksgiving. Macy’s serves 50,000 shoppers on that one day. More details here.

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 |occupation = Revolutionary leader
 |hobby = Writing up death lists, killing people
-|goals = Establish Communist rule in Cuba (succeeded)<br>Spread Communism to other countries (partially successful)
+|goals = Establish Communist rule in Cuba (succeeded)<br>Spread [[Communism]] to other countries (partially successful)
 |type of villain = Anti-Villain
 |motive =
-}}{{Quote|We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.|Che Guevara}}'''Ernesto "Che" Guevara''' (June 14, 1928 - October 9, 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia within popular culture.
+}}
+{{Quote|We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.|Che Guevara}}
+'''Ernesto "Che" Guevara''' (June 14, 1928 - October 9, 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia within popular culture.
 As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed. His burgeoning desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Árbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow at the behest of the United Fruit Company solidified Guevara's political ideology. Later, while living in Mexico City, he met Raúl and [[Fidel Castro]], joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht, Granma, with the intention of overthrowing Cuban dictator [[Fulgencio Batista]]. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second-in-command, and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.
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 This impeccably high-brow scholarly study found that Castro and Guevara’s firing squads murdered between 15 and 17 thousand Cubans, the equivalent, given the U.S. population, of almost one million executions.
-But enough about Cubans. Let’s come home for a second. Fortunately for Time magazine (headquartered in Manhattan) on Nov. 17, 1962  as the clock clicked down on a terror plot that would have possibly incinerated and entombed more people than [[Al-Qaeda]] [[September 11 attacks|attack on 9/11]], a man they vilify ([[J. Edgar Hoover]]) thwarted their “hero and icon” (Che Guevara).
+But enough about Cubans. Let’s come home for a second. Fortunately for Time magazine (headquartered in Manhattan) on Nov. 17, 1962  as the clock clicked down on a terror plot that would have possibly incinerated and entombed more people than [[Al-Qaeda]] [[September 11 attacks|attack&nbsp;on 9/11]], a man they vilify ([[J. Edgar Hoover]]) thwarted their “hero and icon” (Che Guevara).
 Che Guevara headed Cuba’s “Foreign Liberation (i.e. terrorism) Dept.” at the time and his agents had targeted Macy’s, Gimbel’s, Bloomingdales, and Manhattan’s Grand Central Station with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. The holocaust was set for detonation the following week, on the day after Thanksgiving. Macy’s serves 50,000 shoppers on that one day. More details here.