Guevara's claim to fame was the role he played alongside Fidel and Raul Castro in installing a totalitarian communist regime in Cuba then attempting to spread this model using violent means in Africa and Latin America, to spread his toxic philosophy of political action that others seek to emulate. He embraced hatred and dehumanization of the other as the means to carry out what he called necessary actions.
A few years ago we stayed at a casa particulaire in Trinidad de Cuba hosted by a woman who would put her hand over her heart when she said, "Che!". But she was a black woman old enough to remember how it was for black women before the revolution.
Che’s racism becomes evident in these comments in his travel diary: “The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese. The contempt and poverty unites them in the daily struggle, but the different way of dealing with life separates them completely; the black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.”
Probably the greatest success story of US Special Forces was the tracking and extermination of this psychotic butcher along with their Bolivian army allies.
What can you expect from a communist like Che Guevara. He was a murdered that had no personal courage. Justice eventually caught up to Che Guevara, but not before he murdered hundreds of innocent Cubans.
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So, the people he helped to free in Cuba don’t live in poverty? That’s pure BS. Aside from the elite communists running the country every one else lives in poverty. That’s what communism is good for. Except for the few everyone else lives like a dog hoping for a scrap and are brainwashed into believing they’re toiling for a better future.The statement about Guevara and courage is idiotic. Guevara can be very criticized as a murderer, but there's a point to understanding him more as well. He was radicalized when he travelled South America and saw great poverty, and when he was working in a hospital in Guatemala in 1954 when the US overthrew the government.
Che Guevara: Road to Radical – StMU Research Scholars
Its been more than a decade since ive seen a Che shirt, just parodies.
Che Guevara enjoyed killing. Here is Che recounting the execution of Eutimio Guerra: “I fired a 32 caliber bullet into the right hemisphere of his brain which came out through his left temple. He moaned for a few moments, then died.”
Can his reputation survive the publication of his own words? In December 1953, he wrote to his aunt from San José, Costa Rica, “I have sworn before a picture of our old, much lamented comrade Stalin that I will not rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.” Another letter to the same aunt was signed with the words "Stalin II. More important was the fact that when Guevara visited the USSR in his capacity as one of the most important leaders of the victorious Cuban revolution in November of 1960, he insisted on depositing a floral tribute at Stalin's tomb. It is important to remember that this was more than four years after Khrushchev's revelations of Stalin's crimes.
