Che in Congo
In 1965 the Latin-American revolutionary went to fight with rebels in the Congo.
Che Guevera and around 200 Cuban soldiers spent 7 months waging guerrilla war against US-backed Congolese troops.
In 1965 the Latin-American revolutionary went to fight with rebels in the Congo.
Che Guevera and around 200 Cuban soldiers spent seven months in the jungle, waging guerrilla war against the US-backed Congolese army.
Guevara later described the diaries he kept about his time in Africa as "the history of a failure."
(Photo: Che Guevara shaving while crossing Lake Taganika in the Congo/ AFP/ AFP/Getty Images)
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