Ideology

Throughout the documentary, it is very obvious that Che has distinct values that he is willing to die to defend; however, I really don't think I have any ideals that I believe in nearly as strongly as Che. Just like much of the rest of society, I value honesty, integrity, and several other basic ideals, but I am definitely not willing to go to the same lengths as Che to enforce them. Even though I believe that these values are important, I do not believe that my values should be forced upon others, which was what Che intended to do by liberating Cuba with Castro.

El Che Reaction #1

From the documentary yesterday, it jumped out at me how renowned Che was in Cuba. I knew that he was a national hero for helping Fidel rise to power; however, I was not aware that the people glorified him at such a high level. I also was not aware that he was born into an upper class family in Argentina. It was shocking to me how he chose to lead a completely different life that what he was born into or what was expected from him. The amount of exposure that Che had to political activism and revolutions over the course of the few years after he got graduated from medical school was also very surprising and obviously helped him to determine and dictate how he wanted to live his life.