Born Ernesto Guevara on June 14th, 1928, he spent his life believing that his birth date was in fact a month later than that, due to his mother, Celia Lynch being three months pregnant when she married his father, also Ernesto. He was born an Argentine but was to assume Cuban citizenship and then to give it up.
             He suffered from asthma from a very young age, a trouble that plagued him throughout his whole life and troubled him in the humid climate of South America and in particular, Cuba.
             In 1947 he met Berta Gilda Infante, also known as Tita, a member of the Argentine Communist Youth. They read and discussed Marxist texts and views. This was the developing of his socialist ideas, of which he had previously been unaffected by.
             A year later and Ernesto continued his studies at university, passing three years of medicine examinations.
             After finishing his studies in 1953 Ernesto travelled through South America on motorbike, recording the events in "Motorcycle Diaries". He was staying in Guatemala during the time of the 1954 CIA coup against the democratically elected leftist president Salvador Arbenz, the man who was to "succeed" him after killing many civilians in the organised "liberation" of the country by the CIA, Operation Success. Ernesto became involved with underground rebel groups to resist the American imperialism and after the coup and subsequent takeover of power, transporting weapons to youths resisting the imperialist action. Ernesto was labelled as a dangerous communist and had to seek refuge in the Argentine embassy.
             In 1955 Ernesto travelled to Mexico City to find work as a doctor. Here he met Fidel Castro, who had recently been in prison in Cuba for organising an attack on a military barracks of the Batista regime. Fidel referred to Guevara: "he knew much about Marxism-Leninism, self-thought, very eager to learn
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