Ernesto Che Guevara born June 14th 1928, commonly known as el Che or simply Che, 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 in popular culture. Che Guevara was a Marxist revolutionary humanist, who believed in defeating Imperialism through world revolution. He wished for the world to be a better place, for mankind to leave the greed of money, capitalism and fascism and turn its attention to important things focusing on moral values, education, the eradication of money, poverty, hunger and disease. His plans and campaigns failed, however, due to misfortunes. This time line will explore that what if Che Guevaras revolution in Cuba was a start of mass revolutions throughout the third world and would lead the entire earth into the next global war. Revolution in Bolivia (1967-1969) In 1967 Che Guevara traveled to Bolivia in hopes of starting a revolution there which would then further spark a continental uprising. The Communist Party of Bolivia helped organise a force of 500 dedicated guerrillas as well as Fidel Castro sending 200 Cuban soldiers to aid Ches campaign. Although the party was hesitant at first it eventually agreed to support the armed struggle. Intense fighting was ensued between the US trained Bolivian rangers and the revolutionary guerrillas. Ten months of fighting in the jungles and mountains resulted in the Bolivian army retreated with massive casualties. Che immediately went into the offensive with the help of peasants who now joining the revolution helped to ignite a full blown revolt in the country. Town after town, village after village began to fall to the revolutionaries until in May 1968 La Paz fell to the rebels who were 20,000 strong storming the city, arresting the president Che installed Raul Ruiz Gonzalez the head of the Communist Party as president and the Democratic Republic of Bolivia was established. Splinter and models of Ches resistance movements began to spring up in Mexico, Panama, Argentina, and others particularly in South America. Exactly what he had hoped began to begin and now this put him in a serious situation with the CIA. He was No. 1 on the CIA list, and was wanted by the International criminal court, this didnt scare him one bit but strengthened him. Guevara wanted to now build a strong unification of the revolutionary countries in struggle. As soon as the oppressed countries were liberated Che knew the importance of them being able not only to read and write but to have basic human needs and rights which the Latino and Black population so clearly lacked. He began to initiate the literacy campaign and to fulfill the peoples basic needs, exactly the way he did in Cuba, He helped build schools, hospitals, workshops, shops, roads, free healthcare, and welfare. Che initiated a five year plan which would guarantee that the revolutionary countries would gain all these values and luxuries within the next five years. Predicting that with good effort South America could become well advanced like the rest of the modern world, like Europe and North America. Fighting in Palestine (1970 - 1972) The spark Che needed in Latin America despite the hard won victory in Bolivia did not take place, therefore Che decided to take the revolution into one of the worlds hottest war zones, the Middle East. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine was formed in 1969, as soon as Che was done in Bolivia, he smuggled himself to the main base of the DFLP in Palestine, offering his help and knowledge of guerrilla warfare. For him Palestine was yet another nation under the occupation of American imperialism simply under the guise of the Jewish state of Israel, murdering and launching genocide against the free Palestinian people. He once again disguised himself as he had done in Bolivia, but instead of shaving part of his head let it grow, and did not die his hair black, he came under the name Sayyid Al Mansour a Moroccan economist. Che did not favour some of the DFLPs extreme terror tactics such as hijacking and civilian targeting, but he did see the justification of it and benefits. Che flew with 3000 Cubans and 180 Bolivians into Palestine, with their intense knowledge of guerrilla warfare they proved to be highly successful against Israeli Defence Forces. Che started off by using his regular tactics of ambushing convoys supply lines and communication. Tel Aviv, Bethlehem and Gaza were the center points of Ches attacks, seizing tanks, weaponry and building became vital, meanwhile popular support became fierce from among the Palestinian Marxist community. With three months 545 IDF soldiers had been killed and several hundred wounded. With mass casualties the IDF began a heavy crackdown on DFLP bases, command posts and everything they could kill, in order to disrupt their operations Israel, however, still had no idea that the Palestinian revolutionaries were being aided and led by Che Guevara, and had no idea how the DFLP were getting so successful with each operation. The IDF failed miserably in their crackdown as they didnt have input into where their bases were or who their leaders were. A squad of DFLP fighters celebrating in Gaza, 1970 1971 Che led a large force of DFLP fighters into the Gaza strip and assaulted IDF positions and bases successfully killing hundreds of soldiers, while their own were fewer then 45, it forced the IDF to retreated from large parts of the strip and this gave a huge victory to the rebels who quickly established the Peoples Democratic Revolutionary Republic of Palestine, the first free Palestinian state since 1948. Situations in other countries was forcing Che to leave Palestine, but he made sure Bolivian and Cuban revolutionaries would continue to come in order assist the Palestinian comrades. Wow!
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