Per Rep. Diane Watson (D-CA say “after Che threw out the wealthy in Cuba he and a few buds went out looking amongst the people for a man to run the country. They found Attorney Fidel Castro.”

Wikipedia has this to say about Che Guevara, the insurgent from Argentina. “Later, while living in Mexico city, he met Raul and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement, and invaded Cuba aboard the Granma with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.^[7] Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second in command, and played a pivotal role in the successful two year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.^[8]

Following the Cuban Revolution, Guevara performed a number of key roles in the new government. These included reviewing the appeals and firing squads for those convicted as war criminals during the revolutionary tribunals,^[9] instituting agrarian reform as minister of industries, serving as both national bank president and instructional director for Cuba’s armed forces, and traversing the globe as a diplomat on behalf of Cuban socialism. Such positions allowed him to play a central role in training the militia forces who repelled the Bay of Pigs Invasion^[10]Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles which precipitated the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and bringing to Cuba the .^[11] Additionally, he was a prolific writer and diarist, composing a seminal manual on guerrilla warfare, along with a best-selling memoir about his youthful motorcycle journey across South America. Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to incite revolutions first unsuccessfully in Congo-KinshasaBolivia, where he was captured by CIA-assisted Bolivian forces and executed.^[12] and later END WIKI

When our leaders teach false history, what can our students learn?