Che Guevara Movie

In the movie “Che,” to begin with Che Guevara himself was firstly interviewed by Lisa Howard who asks him if reform throughout Latin America might not blunt the “message of the Cuban Revolution.” The first part of the movie focuses on the Cuban revolution. To discuss the main reason why he did what he did, we have to look at his experience in Guatemala. In 1954, he witnessed the socialist government of president Jacobo Abenz overthrown by an American backed military coup. It was the real aggression of the State Department of the US which angered him the most because the Guatemala people had not reached the same degree of maturity and intelligence that the Cuban people had. From that day he wanted to become a revolutionary doctor however to be revolutionary at all, there had to be a revolution. He wanted the whole population of Guatemala to mobilize and learn how to use arms and fight together.   He had a meeting with Fidel Castro to discuss plans to sign on as a member of the July 26th Movement which was lead by Castro himself. It was a revolutionary organization that, in 1959, overthrew the Fulgencio Batista government in Cuba. Guevara intended to join this movement in order to bring across his idea of communism and to fight against the capitalist and imperialist idea that Batista moved on. During the film, it returns to 1964 for Guevara’s address before the United Nations General Assembly, where he makes a speech against American imperialism and defends the executions his regime has committed. He claimed that the war was “a battle to the death.” He wanted to make sure that he was able to get his point across to everyone that Cuba was one of the main agricultural producers sugar cane and cattle in pastures which at the same time, served as reserve areas for the sugar plantation owners. This raised the issue of unemployment in Cuba which became a constant feature of life in rural areas resulting in the migration of agricultural workers to the cities. However, their...