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Exile of Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Argentina · Politics / 26th of July Movement. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1954–1959Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1954

Ernesto "Che" GuevaraSeptember 1954

Mexico City · Politics / 26th of July Movement

Guevara arrives in Mexico City in early September 1954, and renews his friendship with ¥ico Lopez and the other Cuban exiles whom he had met in Guatemala

1959

Ernesto "Che" Guevara1 January 1959

Politics / 26th of July Movement

Batista, upon learning that his generals - especially General Cantillo, had visited Castro at the inactive sugar mill, Central Oriente - were negotiating a separate peace with the rebel leader, fled to the Dominican Republic

Names involved

Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Provenance

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