My question is: During his travels, which experiences directed Guevara to adopt his communist ideology?
The first time Guevara hinted at having an interest in leaving the medical field and entering politics was when he met Hugo Pesce. Pesce was a doctor working in the San Pablo leper colony in the Amazon. When Alberto and Guevara saw the poor living conditions there, he started to think about changing his career path to political activism in order to help indigenous communities and other underrepresented groups. Guevara further exhibited wanting to help indigenous communities when he visited the Inca temples in Lima. During his visit, he became more aware of the European attempts to erase Latin American history and culture. While travelling through Latin America, Guevara spent a lot of time with people of the working class. He listened to the issues that plagued the working class communities he worked in. Having experienced extremely poor conditions, Guevara began to develop a philosophy that there is an eternal struggle between the oppressors and the oppressed. He saw indigenous people and minorities working to death in the copper mine of Chile while American businessmen profited. Guevara developed a strong support for the proletariat and was excited by the idea of a violent overthrow of the oppressors. It was his experiences with the struggles of the underrepresented working class communities of Latin America that directed Guevara to develop his communist ideology.
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