Che is a Spanish interjection used commonly in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, some parts of Brazil, Bolivia, and also in Valencia, Spain (equivalent to the Valencian xe, or Ebro-delta Catalan xa: the Valencia CF soccer team is known as "Els Xes" or "the Xe team".). It is an exclamation, often used to get attention or express surprise, and so it corresponds in some ways to exclamations such as "hey!", "eh!" and "wow!". It is also used in a vocative sense as though it meant "friend", and thus corresponds in some ways to expressions such as "mate", "pal", "man", or "dude" that can be found in the speech of various English speakers. Like these words, it may be used both before or after a phrase: "Man, this is some good beer", or, "Let's go get a beer, man." ("Xe, está buena la cerveza." or "Vamos a buscar unas cervezas, xe.") ******************* The word has also spread to southern parts of Portuguese-speaking Brazil (usually written as "Tchê"). *********** In other Latin American countries, the term Che is used to refer to someone from Argentina. For example, Ernesto "Che" Guevara earned his nickname from his frequent use of this expression, which, particularly to his Cuban comrades, was a curious feature of his idiolect. Guevara is popularly known simply as el Che in Latin American countries. This sort of appellation based on utterance is common when persons from different cultures interact. ***************Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che or just Che was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, medical doctor Diploma, political figure, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. As a young man studying medicine, Guevara travelled roughrough throughout South America, bringing him into direct contact with the impoverished conditions in which many people lived. His experiences and observations during these trips led him to the conclusion that the region's socio-economic inequalities could only be remedied by revolution, prompting him to intensify his study of Marxism and travel to Guatemala to learn about the reforms being implemented there by President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán.***************** While in Mexico in 1956, Guevara joined Fidel Castro's revolutionary 26th of July Movement, which seized power in Cuba in 1959. After serving in various important posts in the new government and writing a number of articles and books on the theory and practice of guerrilla warfare, Guevara left Cuba in 1965 with the intention of fomenting revolutions first in Congo-Kinshasa, and then in Bolivia, where he was captured in a military operation supported by the CIA and the U.S. Army Special Forces.Guevara was summarily executed by the Bolivian Army in the town of La Higuera near Vallegrande on October 9, 1967.**************** After his death, Guevara became an icon of socialist revolutionary movements and a key figure of modern pop culture worldwide. His image has been used on t-shirts, protest banners, etc. An Alberto Korda photo of him has received wide distribution and modification. The Maryland Institute College of Art called this picture "the most famous photograph in the world and a symbol of the 20th century." **********************************The Cuban photographer who snapped a famous picture of Che Guevara has won copyright protection for the image from a British court as part of a financial settlement with companies that had used it in an ad for Smirnoff vodka, his lawyers said Friday. ***************************** Taken in 1960, the photo of Guevara -- with long curly hair, a tilted beret and a dark, intense gaze -- became a revolutionary icon. One of the world's most widely reproduced images, it appeared on countless T-shirts and posters. **************************** Throughout the years, photographer Alberto Diaz Gutierrez, who goes by the professional name Alberto Korda, never made any money from the use of his famous picture. His motives in bringing the lawsuit were not financial, he said. "As a supporter of the ideals for which Che Guevara died, I am not averse to its reproduction by those who wish to propagate his memory and the cause of social justice throughout the world," he said. "But I am categorically against the exploitation of Che's image for the promotion of products such as alcohol, or for any purpose that denigrates the reputation of Che."