Che's a white boy with a tan!

Do not let Che's tan fool you, he is a white boy with a tan!

One little-known fact about Ernesto Guevara ("Che" was a childhood nickname) is that he was of Irish heritage.

He was born in Buenos Aires in 1928, the first child of Ernesto Guevara Lynch and Celia de la Serna.

Ernesto Guevara Lynch's mother, Ana Isabel Lynch, with whom Che's family lived for years and to whom Che grew especially close, was the daughter of immigrants who had sailed to Argentina from County Galway, Ireland, at around the time of the Irish Famine.

As a white-skinned Argentinean descended from local nobility on his mother's side, Che lived among the more privileged ranks of his country's class- and race-conscious society