What was Che Guevara’s family background in Argentina?

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Che Guevara was born into a middle-class Argentine family of Spanish-Irish descent. He was the eldest of five children and was raised in a household with leftist leanings. Despite suffering from asthma, he was an excellent scholar and athlete who went on to complete his medical studies in 1953.12