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Nov 29, 2021 · Guevara was a descendent of Galway native, Patrick Lynch, born in 1715, and who in the aftermath of land confiscations in Ireland was said to have made his way to Buenos Aires in 1749 via Bilbao. Guevara’s Irish roots are these days arguably well-known and his Irish heritage is now an accepted fact. However, it has not always been the case.
Jul 4, 2012 · Ernesto Che Guevara’s grandmother was Ana Isabel Lynch, and his father, Ernesto Guevara Lynch, told an interviewer in 1969: “The first thing to note is that in my son’s veins flowed the ...
Ernesto " Che " Guevara (Latin American Spanish: [ˈtʃe ɣeˈβaɾa]; [ 3 ] 14 June 1928 [ 1 ] – 9 October 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 ...
Sep 29, 2017 · Che was born into a well-to-do family in Buenos Aires in 1928, the eldest child of Celia de la Serna and Ernesto Guevara Lynch. When Che’s family ran into financial difficulty and lost most of ...
Jul 17, 1997 · Goodbye to All That. 1. When, shortly after the triumph of the Castro revolution, Ernesto Guevara took over the direction of the Cuban National Bank, it became his duty to sign the newly minted ten- and twenty-peso notes. This he did with a contemptuous flourish, scrawling the bold nom de guerre “Che” on both denominations.
Oct 9, 2017 · Ciarán D'Arcy. Mon Oct 09 2017 - 11:41. The father of Che Guevara embraced his Gaelic heritage, especially the rebellious nature of the Irish and their fondness for partying, according to the ...
Dec 4, 2017 · 6. Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (New York: Grove Press, 1997), p. 3. One of his biographers, Jon Lee Anderson, reports that Che's mother once revealed that he was actually born a month before, on 14 May, but that she had “reset” the clock to cover up the fact that he had been conceived out of wedlock.
