text: who is che gavara?   che was an argentine-born physician, marxist revolutionary, politician, and leader of cuban and internationalist guerrillas. as a young man studying medicine, guevara traveled "rough" throughout latin america, bringing him into direct contact with the poverty in which many people lived. through these experiences he became convinced that only revolution could remedy the region's economic inequality, leading him to study marxism and become involved in guatemala's social revolution under president jacobo arbenz guzmán. after his death, guevara became an icon of socialist revolutionary movements worldwide. an alberto korda photo of guevara (right) has received wide distribution and modification. the maryland institute of art called this picture "the most famous photograph in the world and a symbol of the 20th century."[1