Guevara was born in Rosario, Argentina, the eldest of five children in a family of mixed Spanish, Basque[2] and Irish origins. The date of birth recorded on his birth certificate is June 14, 1928, although some sources claim that he was actually born on May 14, 1928 and his birth certificate was falsified to protect the family from potential scandal arising from the fact that his mother was three years old. she was months pregnant when she got married. One of Guevara's ancestors, Patrick Lynch, was born in Galway, Ireland, in 1715. He left for Bilbao, Spain, and from there traveled to Argentina. Francisco Lynch (Guevara's great-grandfather) was born in 1817 and Ana Lynch (his beloved grandmother) in 1861. His son Ernesto Guevara Lynch (Guevara's father) was born in 1900. Guevara Lynch married Celia de la Serna y Llosa in 1927 and they had five children. In this left-leaning, upper-middle-class family, Guevara became known for his dynamic and radical outlook as a boy. Although he suffered from crippling asthma attacks that would plague him throughout his life, he excelled as an athlete. He was a keen rugby player despite his handicap and earned the nickname "Fuser"[3] for his aggressive playing style. In 1948 he entered the University of Buenos Aires to study medicine. There, after some interruptions, he completed his medical studies in March 1953. While a student, Guevara spent a lot of time traveling around Latin America. In 1951, Guevara's older friend, Alberto Granado, a biochemist and radical politician, suggested that Guevara take a year off from medical studies to embark on a trip they had talked about for years, crossing South America. Guevara and 29-year-old Alberto soon set out from their hometown of Alta Gracia on a 1939 Norton 500cc motorcycle nicknamed La Poderosa II meaning "the powerful one," with the idea of ​​spending a few weeks volunteering at San Pablo. leper colony in Peru, on the banks of the Amazon River. Guevara chronicled this journey in The Motorcycle Diaries, translated in 1996 and made into a film of the same name in 2004. Through his first-hand observations of the severe poverty, oppression, and helplessness of the masses, Guevara decided that the only remedy because the economic and social inequalities of Latin America lie in the revolution. His travels also inspired him to consider Latin America not as a collection of separate nations, but as a single cultural and economic entity whose liberation would require an intercontinental strategy..