Witness History: Archive 2012 - Che in Congo

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In 1965 the Latin-American revolutionary went to fight with rebels in the Congo.

Che Guevera and around 200 Cuban soldiers spent seven months in the jungle, waging guerrilla war against the US-backed Congolese army.

Guevara later described the diaries he kept about his time in Africa as "the history of a failure."

(Photo: Che Guevara shaving while crossing Lake Taganika in the Congo/ AFP/ AFP/Getty Images)

Published on Tuesday, 9th October 2012.

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