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Che Guevara was born in Argentina. He studied to become a doctor at the University of Buenos Aires and participated in riots against Argentina's dictator, Juan Peron. In 1953, he joined leftist leader Jacobo Arbenz Guzman in Guatemala, but was forced to flee to Mexico after Arbenz was overthrown. There he met Fidel Castro and joined the 1956 rebel invasion of Cuba. Guevara became Castro's first lieutenant, eventually serving as president of Cuba's national bank and, later, as minister of industry. In 1965, he left Cuba to wage revolutionary warfare in the Congo. In 1966, he entered Bolivia under an assumed name, instigating a brief guerilla movement before he was captured and executed by the Bolivian government in 1967.
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