During the 1950's, Ernesto Che Guevara, a medical student, and his friend Alberto Granado, a biochemist student, took a motorcycle trip through Argentina, Chile, Peru, Columbia and Venezuela. Ernesto's adventures throughout South America led to his observations of different socio-economic classes throughout different South American countries revealing misery, oppression, and injustice affecting the lower class people; caused by the upper class. Ernesto's profession as a doctor also led him to observe the lack of resources …showed first 75 words of 1745 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1745 total…were many instances throughout Ernesto's Motorcycle Diaries that showed his formation of a revolutionary thinker. The oppression and lack of government involvement led Che to become a revolutionary later in his life in order to make the lives of the lower class better. Seeing how the imperialists had ruined everything in his continent, created a strong hatred in his mind for the imperialists. It was Che's journey that initiated his formation into a famous revolutionary.