Ernesto Che Guevara: What Turned Him into a Legend Was His Gruesome Death

Until he became a part of global cultural heritage

Maria Milojković, MA

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Lessons from History

10 min readDec 21, 2021

Popularized cropped version of Guerrillero Heroico — Ernesto Che Guevara — Popularized cropped version of Guerrillero Heroico — Che Guevara | Image by Wikimedia Commons, altered by the author

Why feel sorry for the guy who killed dozens of people anyway?

Maybe because he truly believed in a better and more just world? After all, Ernesto Che Guevara was against poverty, suffering, and accumulation of fortune. Also, he…

Ernesto Che Guevara: What Turned Him into a Legend Was His Gruesome Death

Until he became a part of global cultural heritage

Written by Maria Milojković, MA