Ernesto Che Guevarawas the legendary Latin American guerrilla fighter who joined the Cuban revolutionary movement that toppled the Batista dictatorship. He played a leading role in the early years of the Cuban revolution and made an extraordinary and original contribution to Marxist theory. He died at the hands of CIA assassins in Bolivia in 1967. Maria del Carmen Ariet Garcíais the world’s leading researcher on the life and works of Che Guevara. She is the coordinator of the Che Guevara Studies Center (Havana) that is headed by Che’s widow, Aleida March. María del Carmen led the investigation that ultimately succeeded in finding Che Guevara’s remains in Bolivia… in 1997, 30 years after his assassination.