More than half a century ago, on 9 October 1967, the rifle of the Argentine revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara fell silent in the Bolivian mountains. Yet the echo of his words has remained alive across the Global South, from the Andes to the refugee camps of Gaza.

Today, 58 years after his death, the question returns: What connected the Argentine doctor who fought in the Cuban jungles with the Palestinian people, who have resisted occupation for decades? Was the connection merely symbolic, or did Che leave a tangible mark on Palestinian revolutionary thought?

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna — later known simply as Che — was born in Argentina in 1928. He abandoned his medical studies in pursuit of what he called “healing the world from injustice.” His journey across Latin America transformed him into one of the key figures of the 1959 Cuban Revolution that overthrew the US-backed Batista regime.

But Guevara was not content with Cuba’s victory. He believed that true revolution knows no borders, declaring that “every true revolution is a war of liberation against colonialism.”

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