Che’s birthplace to display statue
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Ernesto “Che” Guevara has returned to Buenos Aires, his defiant expression immortalized in a bronze statue.
Guevara left the capital in 1953 to travel the continent and join the Cuban Revolution, becoming a political icon.
Now, after a tour of Buenos Aires, a 3-ton, 13-foot bronze replica of his image will tower over a plaza in the town of Rosario, his birthplace, topped with his famed starred beret.
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