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Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara

Che Guevara.. I am damn sure that you have heard this name but I am also quite sure that most of you, reading this article right now, don't know what he stands for. Most people don't know anything beyond this name, in spite of the often encounter with his legendary picture of above. For all those, here is a little piece of trivia to start with.  Ernesto  " Che "  Guevara  was an Argentine  Marxist   revolutionar y.  A major figure of the  Cuban Revolution , physician, author,  guerrilla  leader, diplomat, and military theorist. But the book I am going to tell you about is not about revolutionary Che. Its about a a 23 year old Ernesto Guevara, who along with his friend Granado, went on a long trip across Latin America. Before this trip, he empathized about the people around him, but this trip radicalized his thought process completely. In retrospection, this can be considered as a spark which turned in a wild fire that ...