Che Guevara: Hero or Villain?

Che Guevara has been described as the most complete human of our age. He is the face that adorns the t-shirts of the world's youth, the symbolic leader of those who wish to rebel and the brains behind the 1959 liberation of Cuba from a corrupt military dictatorship. Practical and idealistic, secretive and outspoken, restless and complex, caring and brutal, self-serving and naïve-this is just the beginning of a large spectrum of contradictory traits possessed by this intriguing historic icon. As a result of this, one cannot classify Ernesto Guevara as either a hero or a villain as he clearly possesses traits of both. Because different people view him in different ways he is both a romantic idealist who wanted to create a better world for all and a power hungry murder with the belief that his ideas were superior to all others.…