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 Đurišić appointed Radenko Tmušić as Korda's assistant after Korda asked him for a professional military officer. Korda was one of the Chetnik commanders who participated in Đurišić's reprisals against Sandžak Muslims (many of whom were innocent), originally intended as revenge against the Sandžak Muslim militia. A group commanded by Vojislav Lukačević began with an attack on 5 January 1943. When the Chetniks began the offensive, Italian forces tried to reach Korda with a plea to stop the attacks but were driven off. A unit commanded by Korda burned 15 houses and killed 15 people that day, and Miraš Savić's unit