Motorcycle Diaries

"The Motorcycle Diaries", is the story of Ernesto "Che" Guevara and Albert Granado's journey around South America.  The movie is based of the hand written journal of Ernesto.  Their journey started out as a quest to meet woman and bask in the beautiful landscape of South America.  They fought tooth and nail trying to get to Venezuela and they tribulations allowed them to experience life in a new way. They did not imagine that the people they met and the place they went would have such a profound impact on their lives from then on.
Throughout the movie Ernesto was impacted by the people he met.  They were not just a part of the scenery they were people suffering from oppression.  The government was run by a single dictator who controlled all aspect of society by basing his political ideal on populism.   It was during the Peron era that these two men went on their journey.  Peron decided tourism would be the best way to save Argentina large amount of debt and it soon became one of the the largest industries and because of this Ernesto wanted to avoid the major cities and be one with the people in the outskirts or "Pubelos".  Ernesto was not interested in the political Peron politics but rather the chose to read literature by Marx and others nationalist writers like him.  He wanted to be with people of all social status'.  He would later fight for the rights of the "forgotten" indian people of the Andes and saw them as the fuel for the greater population.
On a journey to Boliva Ernesto witnessed unjust agrarian reforms against mining workers.  It was a very similar scene to Ernesto because of the oppression he has seen by Peron.  Although Bolivia was known for being a very tolerate to all social status there was a hierarchy in both politics and the military.  Just like in Argentina, Bolivia was a single product economy.  This inequality in product exportation drove the mining industry to focus on the bottom line and not the workers.  The owners did not see a threat in the workers they believed the workers did not want the economy to collapse.  Unions were brought into the mining industry to tighten the grip on the working class.  Ernesto and other Bolivian revolutionaries knew that the indigenous barrier needed to be broken to unite the classes for a revolution.  Although the Bolivian revolution was not a success it allowed for other Latin American revolutions to learn from their mistakes and flourish.
Both Zulawski and Elena questioned how a man of low social status studying to be a doctor could become one of Latin America's most famous and feared revolutionaries.  Class was very important during this time there was racists injustice for those of the pheasant class who the majority happened to be indigenous.  Zulawski and Elena thought that Ernetso had a arrogant aura about him but  "The Motorcycle Diaries" did not portray that side.  In the film he was kinda and attentive to all people with in society.  He was generous, compassionate, and touched by all the people he met.  It was clear that that his passion for people could easily light a fire within a whole population to follow him and fight for his cause.  He did not just talk he listened and gave back to the people he met who were primarily "forgotten" people.  He showed compassion to people who had lost all hope and intern gave them hope.  This hope instilled by such a large portion of  the population could easily spark a revolution against the forces oppressing them.  To get what the people wanted and deserved reform was not enough.