Guevara

Beret-wearing revolutionary

Guevara is a Spanish surname, most famously associated with Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the Argentine revolutionary who became an icon of leftist movements worldwide.

His stylized portrait—beret, long hair, defiant gaze—appears on posters and T-shirts as a symbol of rebellion, sometimes worn by people with only vague notions of his politics.

She had a Guevara poster in her dorm room.

Che

Ernesto

Spanish masculine name

diaries · doctor · medicine · asthma · youth · travel · expedition · South America · Latin America · leprosy

iconic

beret

Flat wool cap

symbol · counterculture · rebellion · martyr · legend · stencil · graphic · pop art · Fitzpatrick · red star

Cuba

Havana

Cuba's largest city

Batista · Bay of Pigs · ministry · bank · industry · communism · socialism · embargo · Santa Clara · agrarian reform

guerrilla

insurgency

Armed uprising against authority

fighter · resistance · combatant · ambush · Bolivia · Congo · irregular · clandestine · jungle · mountains

surname

family

Related people together

lineage · Irish · Basque · Spanish · patronymic · clan · descent · bloodline · relatives · nomenclature

Categories
Opposites
political ideology

GuevaraPinochet

Chilean military autocrat

Milton Friedman · Ronald Reagan · Margaret Thatcher · Batista · Ayn Rand

revolutionary method

GuevaraGandhi

Indian independence leader

Martin Luther King Jr. · Mahatma Gandhi · Nelson Mandela · pacifist · nonviolent resistance

cultural symbolism

GuevaraUncle Sam

Government as a man

Ronald Reagan · corporate logo · Wall Street banker · Wall Street · square

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated PG