i agre …..Lefties who wear the t-shirt bearing his face, see themselves as carrying on the values of resistance to capitalist oppression and solidarity with the working class. In reality, the record shows Che was a totalitarian, mass murderer whose face does not belong on the T-shirts of college students who profess to love liberty.
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.Can Leftists Really Not Find A Better 'Icon' Than Che Guevara? (thefederalist.com)
BY: JOSEPH BOUCHARD AND GARION FRANKEL OCTOBER 09, 2023
Che Guevara was not a hero. He was evil. And no self-respecting freeman should wear a T-shirt with Che’s likeness plastered all over it.
Oct. 9 will mark 56 years since the death of Cuban guerrilla Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Apparently, it does not matter that he helped the Castros create an authoritarian regime that now supports the oppression of hundreds of millions of people around the world, because clueless college students at Syracuse University in New York still elevate Che as a representative of liberation and “free” thinking.
But this ignorant reverence is much more pervasive than a mural on display at a particular university — Che remains a popular and venerated figure despite his rightfully infamous reputation. College students all over the Americas (often from wealthy families) use his image to LARP as communist revolutionaries. They have worn their Che T-shirts proudly, fancying themselves the saviors of the poor and oppressed, despite the fact that most of these T-shirts are made in sweatshops in Central America.
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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.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.
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.”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.
Probably the greatest success story of US Special Forces was the tracking and extermination of this psychotic butcher along with their Bolivian army allies.Che became a pop culture icon, the patron saint of progressives who wear his picture. Among them, he became a symbol of countercultural rebellion against capitalism. But in an ironic twist of history, Che owes his posthumous pop culture success to old-fashioned property rights.
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.Probably the greatest success story of US Special Forces was the tracking and extermination of this psychotic butcher along with their Bolivian army allies.
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
His face is known all over the world. With his long thick hair and charismatic stare, Che Guevara is globally recognized as a symbol for revolution and rebellion. He was the young medical student who sought to free the world not only from disease but also from oppression, poverty, and corruption...stmuscholars.org
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.
Its been more than a decade since ive seen a Che shirt, just parodies.The Word (Jesus) became flesh and made his dwelling among us
The real Che Guevara: . . . thank you for this information .. I hope to learn more about Che Guevara and his Communistic / Socialistic murderous agenda . . . God help our youth .. so many brainwashed by the leftwing-media and government schools . . . turning him into an icconic hero ( a symbol of revolution ) I'm sure it won't be long .. they'll be follwing in his footsteps
Che became a pop culture icon, the patron saint of progressives who wear his picture. Among them, he became a symbol of countercultural rebellion against capitalism. But in an ironic twist of history, Che owes his posthumous pop culture success to old-fashioned property rights.
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.”María Werlau
"It has been the most successful marketing campaign of modern times because there is no country where the image of Che Guevara has not been seen. Even in Poland, a country that has suffered so much from communism, I have seen images of Che."
Álvaro Peñas — May 29, 2023
María Werlau is the co-founder and executive director of Cuba Archive, a non-profit think tank that defends human rights, and author of numerous books in English and Spanish on diverse topics related to Cuba. Her published works include Cuba’s intervention in Venezuela and The forgotten victims of Che Guevara. She has a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from the University of Georgetown and a master’s degree in international studies from the University of Chile.
Part 1
“Yes, we have shot, we shot and we will continue to shoot,” said Che at the United Nations. Is this the phrase that best portrays Che Guevara?
Yes, because he enjoyed killing. I have spoken to many people who knew him, including the parish priest of La Cabaña, the fortress that was the prison where Che was in charge of revolutionary justice. He liked it and told the priest so, a man who couldn’t stand it any longer and had to leave after six months and after accompanying 55 people to the wall. Che wrote about this and was very clear about it.
Part 2
He didn’t deceive anyone.
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.Not about this, but he did deceive when he went on television and said that he was not a communist, although I give him credit for being consistent and for having become a guerrilla for his ideals. The unusual thing is how propaganda has turned him into a myth. It was a deliberate campaign to cleanse the image of the Cuban revolution and turn both it and Che into romantic myths. To carry it out, Cuban intelligence enlisted the help of the KGB and its satellites. This is told by Ion Pacepa, former director of the Romanian Securitate, who recounts how they were asked for their help to turn Che into a martyr. I think it has been the most successful marketing campaign of modern times because there is no country where the image of Che Guevara has not been seen. Even in Poland, a country that has suffered so much from communism, I have seen images of Che. And that was the reason for writing this book, because there is a huge bibliography devoted to Che, but nothing about his victims.
Part 4
Could it be that this is due precisely to the weight of propaganda, to the power of the myth?
Che Guevara didn't believe in trials or due process of any kind, quote: “Judicial evidence is an archaic bourgeois detail. I don’t need proof to execute a man. I only need proof that it’s necessary to execute him. We execute from revolutionary conviction! To establish Socialism rivers of blood must flow!”The myth weighs heavily. I have met both of [the authors] and corresponded with Castañeda because of a photo of the golf club in Argentina where Che’s family used to go and where he would have learned to play while he was a caddy. The reality is that he was a member of the club like the rest of his family. I’ve also talked to Lee Anderson, who has also bought into the myth. And I suppose the advantage of preserving the Che myth also allows access to the archives in Cuba and sells more books. It’s still a question of capitalism and the reason why many young people wear a Che t-shirt, young people that Che would have sent to a concentration camp.
Part 5
An example of this lack of knowledge was the interview with the actor Benicio del Toro, who played Che. When the interviewer asked him about Che’s crimes, he didn’t know what to say.
Che toll to Duke Ortega, head of La Cabaña's tribunals: “What one need to know is if it is necessary to shoot him. Nothing more. You should always give the accused the possibility to do his discharge before executing him. And this means, understand me well, that the accused should always be executed, without mattering which has been his discharge. Make no mistake about this. Our mission doesn’t consist in giving procedural guarantees to anyone, but to make the revolution, and we must begin by the same procedural guarantees.” What a monster he was.”Terror as a revolutionary weapon is an element of Bolshevism.I went to the premiere of that film [Che (2008)] in New York, and the room was full of Latin American communists. The myth sells a lot, and so the issues that can tarnish it are ignored. Either they don’t talk about those killed or they say that they deserved it because they were Batista’s executioners. But it wasn’t like that: of all the cases investigated, none of them were Batista’s thugs. What the revolutionaries wanted was to spread terror and that was the plan of the Castro brothers and Che Guevara in Mexico—terror in order to be able to exercise control more easily. There is a case of a young man who had just joined the police, and Che says that he doesn’t care if he is innocent or not: “If he was wearing Batista’s blue uniform, he should be shot.” The truth is that the vast majority of the thugs who committed Batista’s murders managed to flee the country.
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