Guerrillero Heroico Guerrillero Heroico Guerrillero Heroico () is an iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara taken by Alberto Korda. It was captured on March 5, 1960, in Havana, Cuba, at a memorial service for victims of the "La Coubre" explosion. By the end of the 1960s, the image, in conjunction with Guevara's subsequent actions and eventual execution, helped solidify the charismatic and controversial leader as a cultural icon. Korda has said that at the moment he shot the picture, he was drawn to Guevara's facial expression, which showed "absolute implacability" as well as anger and pain. Years later, Korda would say
Rade Korda Rade Korda Rade Korda (), or Rade Kordić, was a Montenegrin Serb gendarmerie sergeant and Chetnik commander ("vojvoda", војвода) in the Bijelo Polje region (present-day Montenegro) in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II. After the Sandžak Muslim militia burned houses of Orthodox Christian villagers in Godiljeva during the July 1941 uprising in Montenegro, Korda became involved in a struggle with Muslims. He became an influential Chetnik commander in the region of Bijelo Polje and Sjenica, which opposed the Chetniks' anticommunist policy. Korda was nominally under the Chetnik command from Nova Varoš and Major Glišić until 1943 (when he came under