A Comparison Of Che Guevara And Fidel Castro

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Che Guevara and Fidel Castro both played an important role in the History of Cuba during the end of the 20th century. The question is “Should they be seen as heroes or villains?” The answers would vary from a person to another. To found my opinion, I looked closer at the whole Cuban revolution as well as Fidel Castro’s political career.
Che Guevara was originally a doctor and he studied in a good university since he was born in a rich family. He started to think about communism in the 1940’s after a trip in South America. He thought that the government of all the countries was neglecting the poor. Communism was for him the best economic system as everything is distributed evenly to everybody. He wanted to unite the countries and to get rid of foreign influence.
Fidel Castro was a Cuban revolutionary who rejected the democracy. At that point, General Fulgencio Batista was leading the country using the democratic economic system. After an unsuccessful attempt of rising against the government, Fidel Castro was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was released under an amnesty and fle...

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