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“I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you’re only going to kill a man.” This was the last words of Ernesto “CHE” Guevara, formally Fidel Castro’s right-hand man, as he sat wounded and surrounded in a forested ravine in Bolivia.  Guevara (the man) was born in Argentina and brought up in a middle class family, where social concerns were usual topics of debate and interest.  But shortly after medical school, it only took one motorcycle trip through South America, arriving at the mysterious mountain ruins of Peru’s Machu Picchu, to activate Guevara’s inner “rogue” nature.  This emotional “trigger” eventually found a brotherly counterpart in Cuba’s Fidel Castro, while together in a jail cell, a unique friendship formed between them. With their individual activist past morphing quickly into a revolutionary future, what became of these two people who met in the middle? This subject focuses on one of the most interesting lives of a revolutionary genius who, through will-power and the X-Factor of stardom, rose to unthinkable heights on the world’s political stage. But in the end, Cuba inherited decades of poverty and dictatorship with Fidel Castro, and “CHE” (the star), burnt out by frustration and exhaustion, saw little success in the social challenge of helping people help themselves.