Top 10 Latin American Historical Figures

The Top Ten
1 Simon Bolivar
2 Jose de San Martin
3 Jose Mujica
4 Emiliano Zapata
5 Pancho Villa
6 Ernesto Che Guevara Ernesto "Che" Guevara, commonly known as El Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist.

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7 Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet-diplomat and politician Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973), he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
8 Benito Juarez
9 Chico Mendes
10 Eva Perón María Eva Duarte de Perón was the second wife of Argentine President Juan Perón and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is usually referred to as Eva Perón, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita.
The Contenders
11 Fidel Castro Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, known as Fidel Castro (August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016), was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Politically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he... read more
12 Pedro Albizu Campos
13 Eduardo Galeano
14 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist... read more
15 Salvador Allende
16 Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo de Rivera (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954), born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her self-portraits.
17 Juana Ines de la Cruz
18 Jose Marti
19 Eloy Alfaro
20 Jose Gervasio Artigas
21 Juan Perón
22 Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
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