While the expeditionaries tried to rest a little, they listened to some detonations. They were being attacked, so they had to run away, but this was the beginning of the battle. However, the Cuban people believed that Fidel was death, but they were mistaken, he wasn't. Unfortunately, only 15 men (out of the 82 that arrived to Cuba) survuved.
The rebels began the fighting, and soon the guerrilla got to grow. While Che fought, he decided to help the natives to study and to shoot.
This rebellion lasted for three years (1956-1959), and finally, on January the 1st, the rebels won. Everything in Cuba would change. All the people would have a house and a job, and the children would study.
Because the war had ended, Fidel asked Che to work in Cuba, and to organise the economy. After all the changes, the rich people decided to go back to Miami.
In 1959, Che became a Cuban citizen, and in 1960, one of Che's dreams became true: know the socialist countries. He negotiates and signs commercial treatments with the Soviet Union, China, Hungary, Checoslovaquia, Bulgaria, Korea and the German Democratic Republic.
On January, 1961, the United States breaks any tie with Cuba and Fidel declared that Cuba would become a socialist country.
During the revolution, Ernesto met a girl named Aleida March, so he got divorced from Hilda and married Aleida, with whom he had 4 more children.
On 1965, Che decided to go to Africa to organise another revolution in the Congo, but he failed. Anyway, to do this, he had to make a letter where he quit to his relationships with any Cuban affair, because the war in the Congo was against the Soviets, and that would affect Cuba.
Later, he decided to go to Bolivia, to organise another revolution (that also failed), in order to make other of his dreams become true: to build lots of Vietnams. He tried to organise a guerrilla, but unfortunately he got caught, and finally, he was murdered on October 9th, 1967.
His corpse, and those of other guerrilla fighters, had been lost for 30 years, because the people who killed them didn't tell any body where the bodies had been buried, but on July, 1997, some archaeologists had the fortune to find them, and now, the remains of the bodies are buried in Cuba.
Many people compare Che's death body with many paintings that show Christ's death body. Here we can see why:
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