Chasing Che

June 14 is Che Guevara’s birthday. He became an icon, but do you know how the popular revolutionary was captured and executed?

In late 1966, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara covertly went to Bolivia to incite a guerrilla war. Unfortunately, few understood the message he was trying to bring. The farmers didn’t seem to get what it meant to ‘bring down imperialism’, and the authorities painted him in Cold War terms, saying he had come to ‘establish a communist order’.

On his birthday why don’t you watch the documentary, Chasing Che? The film features the stories and impressions of people who met or had contact with Guevara during his Bolivian campaign. What were the final days of this enigmatic yet iconic figure?