In ten pages this paper compares the charismatic leadership characteristics of Che Guevara with Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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Today, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is revered throughout much of Latin America as a champion of the Latin American cause. He struggled ceaselessly against capitalism and imperialism, not because of
any originating difficulties with either concept, but because of the results of the abject poverty in which people were forced to live. Che Guevara seemed to feel the injustices
thrust upon the oppressed as much as they did, and he settled on Marxism as a means to ease their suffering (Bowie, 1993).
Guevaras political ideology may have been misplaced, but his passions for the people of the region were not. The people responded to this on-their-level approach to them, resulting in
Guevara being an appropriate example of the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of the charismatic leader. Passion about a Cause
Whether people agreed or disagreed with Guevara, none doubted his commitment to his various causes. All but one of those causes could be further reduced
to the focus of the single irreducible one: the people of the region. The recollections of a Jesuit priest visiting Guatemala City
in 1963 illustrates the conditions against which Guevara dedicated his struggle. Brennan (1998) was in Guatemala City for the purpose of improving his Spanish before returning to the Honduras
site of his weekly radio address. He went for walks between tutoring sessions, and it was during one of those walks that he stumbled across a shanty town in
the heart of the city. The shanty town was located in a "vast ravine in the central city containing hundreds of shacks. This