If I understand correctly the reluctantance of the Bolivian peasants to join Che was Che was taxing the peasants to feed his revolutionarys. They were already oppressed and Che comes along demanding supplies and wants to recruit their children as combatants.
There are two sides to Che Guevara. Was he a freedom fighter against American imperialism and political subversion or was he a cold blooded terrorist? Fulgencio Batista was a US supported dictator with Mafia ties and the CIA paid no attention. Of course this and other US supported dictators angered people such as Guevara and Castro. It’s important to understand the POV of the poor in Latin America. There’s a tradition going back to Bolivar’s liberation of much of South America from Spanish control. The mistakes made by the USA were trying to control the political outcome of other countries, mistakes that are still made today. Che and his violence were in part products of what the USA was doing.
It’s interesting how revolutionary thought and struggle in some parts of the world, like Europe, Britain and the US, are lauded as righteous while such actions to end colonialism in the southern hemisphere are condemned as bloodthirsty and murderous.
Don't know if Guevara wanted to destroy the US but historical facts do tell us that the CIA had been helping dictators to overthrow democratically elected governments at the time.
Che Guevara was a murderer. One of his quotes pertains directly to today's leftists, "If you don't agree with me, you can't be my friend and are my enemy."
A friend is a Cuban exPat. Worked for decades against Castro. Also worked for the US government. We could not walk down 8th street in Little Havana, Miami with out him being recognized, stopped and thanked for his service to the Cuban exPat community in Miami, multiple times. Every time in restaurants he was known and approached by well wishers and exPat veterans. He was on site when Che was executed. One story is that Castro ratted out Che. Same as Castro did in the airplane bombing that killed Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán removing anyone deemed as popular as Castro himself and therefore a threat.
I'm from VEDADO, Havana, Cuba and when I was a little boy he used to walk around my neighborhood with his wife's beaters and an big Ole gun by his side and smoking cigars to do some voluntary work on a shipyard close to my house
Also he was not poor growing, born into rich family , also a trained medical doctor
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