It was June 1928, Argentina. A young couple decides to get married. Then, his first son, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, known as Che, was born. Much has been written about his extraordinary life, his constant struggle for social justice, his incalculable value, his responsibility, his love for the family and his skills as a guerrilla.
In the book Memories of Missions, the author, his father Ernesto Guevara Lynch, tells about the first years of his family's life in the area of Misiones, between Brazil and Paraguanay and limited by the Paraná and Uruguay rivers. There, he managed a plantation of mat grass.
Ernestico was born in the city of Rosario de Santa Fe and lived in Misiones for about two years. It was impossible for the child to remember this place. In the first story of the book, his father confesses that it was customary to tell his children and friends about what they had seen and felt in those distant places. He stresses that Ernestico, being the eldest of his children, embraced more passionately, the terrible drama of the exploitation of man by the man present there. These conversations, combined with the political vocation of his father, initially influenced Che's thinking and civic formation.
Unquestionably, in the 50s of the twentieth century his personality reaches the necessary maturity. The famous motorcycle tour that he made with his loyal friend Alberto Granado through Latin American countries, meant a direct contact with the less favored social sectors. In his writings on the trip he referred: The character who wrote these notes died when he returned to Argentina. For Guevara, it was the beginning of the definition of his ideals regarding Latin American social inequalities and their possible solutions.
These events of his life later made him face the coup d'état against the government of Jacobo Árbenz, in Guatemala, in 1954. The following year he met Fidel in Mexico and in 1956 he joined the expedition of the Granma yacht to start in Cuba the fight for the final victory. That pacifist and emancipatory impulse took him to the Congo and finally to Bolivia, where he was assassinated in 1967.
90 years after the birth of this incomparable man, Che, his example remains in Cuba, his adoptive homeland, and in the world, because he became universal. A man of ideas, studies and action. One of the essential men who are present, not physically but in thought and action.