Che Guevara's World

Che Guevara was a Marxist revolutionary humanist, who believed in defeating Imperalism through world revolution. He wished for the world to be a better place, for mankind to leave the greed of money, capitalism and facism and turn its attention to important things focusing on moral values, education, the eradication of money, poverty, hunger and disease. His plans and campaigns failed however due to misfortunes. This time line will explore that what if Che Guevara's revolution in Cuba was a start of mass revolutions throughout the third world and would lead the entire earth into the next global war....

Revolution in Bolivia (1967-1969)
In 1967 Che Guevara travelled to Bolivia in hopes of starting a revolution there which would then futher spark a continental uprising. The Communist Party of Bolivia helped organise a force of 500 dedicated guerrillas aswell as Fidel Castro sending 200 Cuban soldiers to aid Che's campaign although the party was hesitant at first it eventually agreed to support the armed struggle. Intense fighting was ensued between the US trained Bolivian rangers and the revolutionary guerrillas. Ten months of fighting in the jungles and mountains resulted in the Bolivian army retreated with massive casualities. Che immediately went into the offensive with the help of peasants who now joinning the revolution helped to ignite a full blown revolt in the country. Town after town, village after village began to fall to the revolutionaries until in May 1968 La Paz fell to the rebels who were 20, 000 strong storming the city, arresting the president Che installed Raul Rulz Gonzalez the head of the communist party as president and the "Democratic Republic of Bolivia" was established.

Communism spreads
Splinter and models of Che's resistance movements began to spring up in Mexico, Panama, Argentina, and others particularly in South America. Exactly what he had hoped began to begin and now this put him in a serious situation with the CIA. He was No1 on the CIA list, and was wanted by the Internation criminal court, this didnt scare him one bit but strengthed him. Guevara wanted to now build a strong unification of the revolutionary countries in stuggle, which meant that Bolivian troops would enter Palestine, and Palestinian communists would enter Boliva each helping with eachothers revolutions.

Education, Welfare and Healthcare
As soon as the oppressed countries were liberated Che knew the importance of them being able not only to read and write but to have basic human needs and rights which the Latino and Black population so clearly lacked. He began to initiate the literacy campaign and to fufill the peoples basic needs, exactly the way he did in Cuba, He helped build schools, hospitals, workshops, shops, roads, free healthcare, and welfare. Che intiated a 5 year plan which would gurantee that the revolutionary countries would gain all these values and luxuries within the next 5 years. Predicting that with good effort South America could become well advanced like the rest of the modern world, like Europe and North America.

Fighting in Palestine (1970 - 1972)
The spark the Che needed in Latin America despite the hard won victory in Bolivia did not take place, therefore Che decided to take the revolution into one of the worlds hottest war zones, the Middle East. "The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine" was formed in 1969, as soon as Che was done in Bolivia, he smuggled himself to the main base of the DFLP in Palestine, offering his help and knowledge of Guerrilla warfare. For him Palestine was yet another nation under the occupation of American imperialism simply under the guise of the Jewish state of Israel, murdering and launching genocide against the free Palestinian people. He once again disguised himself as he had done in Bolivia, but instead of shaving part of his head let it grow, and did not die his hair black, he came under the name "Sayyid Al Mansour" a Morrocan economist. Che did not favour some of the DFLPs extreme terror tactics such as hijacking and civilian targeting, but he did see the justification of it and benefits. Che flew with 3000 Cubans and 180 Bolvians into Palestine, with their intense knowledge of guerilla warfare they proved to be highly sucessful against Israeli Defence Forces. Che started off by using his regular tactics of ambushing convoys supply lines and communication. Tel Aviv, Bethlehem and Gaza were the center points of Che's attacks, seizing tanks, weaponary and building became vital, meanwhile popular support became fierce from among the Palestinian Marxist community. With 3 months 545 IDF soldiers had been killed and several hundered wounded. With mass casualties the IDF began a heavy crackdown on DFLP bases, command posts and everything they could kill, in order to disrupt their operations, Israel however still had no idea that the Palestinian revolutionaries were being aided and lead by Che Guevara, and had no idea how the DFLP were getting so sucessive with each operation.The IDF failed miserabley in their crackdown as they didnt have input into where their bases were or who their leaders were. In September 1971 Che led a large force of DFLP fighters into the Gaza strip and assaulted IDF positions and bases sucessfully killing hundereds of soldiers, while their own were fewer then 45, it forced the IDF to retreated from large parts of the strip and this gave a huge victory to the rebels who quickly established the "Peoples Democratic Revolutionary Republic of Palestine", the first free Palestianian state since 1948. Situations in other countries was forcing Che to leave Palestine, but he made sure Bolivian and Cuban revolutonaries would continue to come in order assist the Palestinian comrades.

US intervention in Bolivia (1974)
The former President René Barrientos was executed by the Bolivian revolutionaries in 1970, he had been declared an enemy and traitor of the nation, not only him but most of the former members of goverment were also brutally executed. The US responded with full force claming that they were barbaric and unacceptable therefore the US began a 48 hour bombardment of Bolivia as punishment.The US airforce targeted Santa Cruz, La Paz and other major cities killing 40, 000 people, mostly civilians. The revolutionaries however managed to shoot down 11 US planes, Bolivia responded afterwards by destorying the US embassy, cutting all ties with America and nationalising all US held property in Bolivia aswell as declaring a state of war against the United States.

Vietnam (1972 - 1975)
Che heavily condemed the attack on Bolivia declaring it "an outragous and blatant act of war against the free nation of Bolivia". Although victorious in Bolivia Che still hadnt got that full blown revolutionary war he wanted in South America which would lead to third world uprisings. Che believed this was due to disunity and nationalism. He decided to try his luck in Asia travelling to Vietnam in 1972 seeing that the revolutionaries were well on their way to victory as American troops began to pull out. There were no more Vietcong since the Tet offensive however Che organised and formed guerrilla groups with NVA forces and the general reminants of the Vietcong, managing to kill over 201 American soldiers and 54 South Vietnamese troops by the end of the war.

Terrorist Movement (GRM)
After the American withdrawl Guevara continued to fight however he also worked on unifying Communist forces, he brought in volunteers from Cuba, Congo, Bolivia, Laos, China and North Korea, Palestine along with minor Soviet spetnaz. He called this large force "The Global Revolutionary Movement for the Freedom of Humanity" "GRM" for short it was to be a highly trained specialised guerrilla group which Che took the large force of over 600 men back to Bolivia after the North Vietnamese conquest of South Vietnam in 1975. However the CIA were already well aware of the creation of the terror movement.

Most Wanted
Ernesto Che Guevara was now the most wanted man on the CIA hit-list and had been condemed by the West as a terrorist and Communist. President Nixon had issued the order for his elimination in 1969 however due to the growing and worrying concern of the rise of Communism Che had to be stopped, but this proved to be extremely difficult the rise of Marxism in the Third World had allowed Che to live in manycountries in safe haven with the Communist movements who all welcomed him as a hero. Also Che's frequent alteration of his apperance was an extreme irritation for the CIA.

Bolivian-Paraguay War (1976)
Now back in Bolivia Che aged now 49, dispatched his GRM forces throughout the Latin American countries including Argentina, launching attacks against those countries oppressive armies. Suicide bombing was new trait which Che picked up in Palestine, This helped alot especially considering it had never been used in Latin America, it inflicted enormous casualties for the enemy and less for the GRM. However this caused the surrounding countries to become extremely hostile with the new Bolivian nation. Bolivia threatened to declare war if the surrounding countries were to attack it, Cuba, Soviet Union and other Communist countries pledged support for Bolivia on January 1976, 2 days later Paraguian troops were seen near the border Bolivian troops opened fire and chased them over the border, Paraguay declared war and the revolutionary Bolivian army invaded the North of the country. The US and Nato backed themselves behind Paraguay, sending supplies and even special forces into the country, as did the Soviet Union send small contigents and Fidel Castro sending in a strong Cuban force of 30, 000 men. Within weeks the Paraguian army had been destroyed and the capital Ascucion was taken, the US critized the rest of the Latin American countries for not participating directly rather only sending supplies to Paraguay for a baseless fear of Communist uprisings on their own soil. The United Nations declared Paraguay under illegal occupation by Bolivian occupation forces, the United States continued to fund the small anti-bolivian insurgency that operated in the harsh, uninhabital jungles.

Latin America's situation (1977)
Latin America did not 100 percent go to what Che was planning but he had sucessfully overthrown the military dicatorship Bolivia, which also had now liberated Paraguay from imperialism. His plans for starting up World War 3 in Latin America seemed what unfeesible, Che realised this was to do with the oppressed being too oppressed that they were unable to rise off their knees. Despite that however, small splinter-Guevarist guerrilla groups did form in Venuzela, Peru and even Argentina.

The Second Russian Civil War (1978)
Che like many Marxists believed the the Soviet Union had "forgotten Marx" and were only serving their own interests, although they had a liability of being an example due to being the first nation to rise in the name of freedom. He got into contact with hardline Communists from the Soviet Union around late 1977, and decided that it was time to once again revolutionise the decaying USSR. He travelled to the USSR in Febuary 1978 at the age of 51, with Global Revolutionary Movement comrades meeting up with militant Ultranationalist Russian Marxists deep inside the Soviet Republic of Georgia. The leader of the Ultranationalists was a former Soviet General named "Reznov Dragovich" he had served in World War 2 as a private and later became a General in 1960, he had become displeased with the Soviet goverment, his father had fought in the original revolution bringing about the Bolshevik regime. He lured Soviet troops and Spetnaz commandos from the Red army managing to convince them that the Soviet goverment had become corrupt and weak, similary to what Che believed that the USSR was becoming more democratic, more Western friendly.

Unlike Bolivia or Palestine, fighting urupted almost immediately against the Kremlin. In North Ossentisa, Che's small guerrilla force joint with Reznov's squad of Spetnaz brigades sucessfully engaged in a small skirmish with police forces, pushing them back killing 56 officers, also taking a few towns too. This victory in Georgia signeled to the locals a rebellion was at hand causing hundereds of Georgians to sign up, however Che was regretful especially when he knew these people would be fighting for indepence, however the real objectives remained a secret from them. In March the Soviet army retailated by sending in the 9th army into Georgia hoping to smash the guerrillas. For 3 months heavy fighting occured and by May both sides had suffered immense casualties, the Soviet army declared a unreasonable victory over the state. To insure the Kremlin that the armed struggle was not over Che although not favouring it agreed with Dragovich to launch guerrilla attacks inside the Soviet Union itself, hitting police stations and even acts of terrorism such as destroying tube stations, and airports killing hundreds of people. The Soviet Union had to declare martial law, however to make matters even worse the on July 5th 1978 terrorists seized the Chernobly nuclear powerplant threatining to detonate if the Polituburo and the Premier step down and let the people take control. Before the Kremlin could organise a force to deal with the crisis other hardliners of the Communist party began a coup swiftly seizing Leningrad and surrounding Moscow, while Che and Dragovich's forces aimed the nuke at Moscow now, 24 hours later the hardliners sent into the 3rd army and stormed the city, meeting little resistance. Dragovich and Che entered the city, Guevera finally revealing himself after all these years. Che was appointed as chairmen of the party and a general in the army, now that the Ultranationalists were in power revolution could begin. For the US and the rest of the world everything had happened to quickly and now they were seriously threatened they were on the brink of World War 3.

The New Russia
The first thing Ernesto Guevara did was to restablish Soviet-Sino relations he personally went to Bejing to meet the Chinese premier, and also began joint trainning sessions with Soviet and Chinese soldiers, which eventually led to both countries soldiers having bases in eachothers countries. Che re-implemented Stalinsation along with non-inteference and exploitation of countries, and most of all creating anti-Western, anti-American sentiment within Russia. Relations with Cuba and the USSR were futher strengthed although Fidel originally opposed the civil war in Russia.

Afghanistan (1979)
The newly created "Peoples Democratic Republic of Afghanistan" depended solely on the support of the former Russian goverment who planning to send the 40th army in to secure the country from an Islamist uprising, however with the swift revolution in the USSR this was put completely off. Che Guevara did not support sending in the Red Army at all especially since the people of the country did not support the Communist goverment which also was a backed goverment by the former regime. With no help coming from the new Kremlin the Communist Afghan goverment fell within only 2 years of holding on its own and were completely crushed by the Mujahideen (Islamic holy warriors) who inturn established an Islamic State in 1982.

Escalation
The Year was now 1982 and for 2 decades Che Guevara had sucessfully overthrown US backed-Imperialist goverments, spreaded Communism and united anti-Western regimes. But the tension had now truely built up, the CIA had several attempts to kill him all had failed now military action might just start. The Ultranationist Soviets had amassed the Red army along the Eastern bloc, this inturned led to Nato pilling up there military forces on the West German front.

The Mexican Revolution (1983)
For some time now Communism and revolution was building up in Mexico, and this is what Che and his ring-wing followers needed in order to spark the final ignition to World War 3. Mexico was perfect it had the rich history of standing upto the United States and had a rising Communist party which was looking more to armed struggle then Democratic elections. This was to be Che's finally stand which he hoped would bring an end to the United States as a global superpower and to replace the Latin American countries under Marxism. However many of the Soviets hoped to bring down the US with a general strike, a full scale invasion in Western Europe and the Eastern seaboard of the United States. Guevara with no more then 600 men travelled to rural Mexico, joinning up with the Mexican Communist fighters, Che's force was made up of mostly Cuban and Bolivian guerrillas along with few Spetnaz contigents he was forced to take with him, making the KGB happy. The Mexicans were honoured that Che had chosen Mexico for his next revolution, deeply honouring him, serving him and offering their alliegances. Che was in his mid-fifties however he was still fighting strong, rebels swiftly defeated most of the govermental forces within 3-4 months in the rural areas in a vicious guerrilla campaign. They started to take key cities..Oaxaca, Palenque and San cristobal, and were so close to Mexico City, this highly alerted the US who now sent forces into the country, this is what Che had hoped for now for the first time his forces would be fighting the US army directly. But US forces in Mexico would greatly anger the general population who would mosty inturn join and side with the rebels, especially in the South. But that was a risk America took and United States army offically intervened in Mexico on July 1983 when Rebel forces laid siege to the capital, through the use of airplanes and tanks they sucessfully pushed the guerrillas away from the Mexico city, and attacked the rebel held cities. Despite his traditional way of fighting in the mountains and jungles Che did not want to leave everything they had gained and so had no choice but look into urban warfare. During these periods of the war the rebels were able inflict massive casualties upon the US army who didnt expect to be fighting so many large numbers and facing guerrillas in the open. The Americans now faced peasant revolts in the North, when they seized Monterrey killing 450 occupation troops and then marching on Sallito futhering killing 170 troops. While the lost Northern cities were recaptured within hours the American army brutally crushed the peasants who had revolted killing upto 40, 000 of them, this is finally what Che needed in order to win the hearts of the average Mexicans. The guerrillas finally went back onto the offensive in August when massive support from the villages and towns poured in, with a strong force of almost 50, 000 the largest force Che had ever commanded he marched on Mexico City laying seige to it for almost twelve days straight. Both sides sustained enormous casualties, by the end of it the Americans had 3000 dead while the guerrillas had suffered the lost of 20, 000 regardless however the Americans retreated from the city. Giving the guerrillas a massive victory over the US it showed especially for Che's ethics that even the strongest superpower could be defeated with popular support. Defeat in Mexico was not an option for the United States allowing its neighbour to into the plague of Communism even if this meant sending fresh troops and deploying a fresh assault, with the help of Nato if it had to. The revolutionaries set up the new goverment in Mexico city, the "Socialist Republic of Mexico" its forces continued to push the American army north. The Americans suffered heavy casualties upto the point that 4 of their contigents were being destroyed at the same time, they assumed that the Mexicans were going to be easily defeated due to lack of arms and moral however fresh reinforcements were ever coming. Bolivian, Cuban, Russian and even Vietnamese troops were arriving on Mexican soil in order to help the Guerrillas. Now that half of Mexico was under Communist control, Nato offically intervened sending in bombers hitting all camps, bases, trucks, supply convoys and even Mexico City, this however truely was a very big mistake because the Ultranationlists were waiting for the moment to take the war to Europe.

Russo-European War
Since the Ultrantionalists seized power in 1978 extreme tension lay on the border of East and West Germany, military build ups on both sides of the border alarmed much of the world. Although it was not Guevara's plan for Russia to get involved the leaders especially Premier Reznov Dragovich took the moment to launch World War 3. He statement was made by the politburo that there was an American plot to bring down the Berlin wall and evidence to this was a small explosion near premisis over the West side of the wall. Though almost completely baseless, many Russians believed this idea including top generals who were now willing to invade West Germany. The Red Army's advance into Western Europe proved swift, destroying the US 6th Armoured Division in Berlin and demolising the Berlin Wall within 48 hours into the invasion, uniting Berlin. The direct act of war was unbelievable, the entire Russian army had begun sweeping through Western Europe, Nato air superiorty were able to neutrilze ground forces of the Red Army, however the large divisions were still able to get through, which now caused Nato forces to fight on the ground.