The real Che Guevara

What’s more ineffectual than the guy who wears a Che T-shirt and doesn’t know anything about him? The quotes below will help the clueless guys wearing Che-T-shirt to get a little more acquainted with him.

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There is a saying in Argentina: “Tengo una remera del Che, y no sé por qué,” which roughly translates to “I have a Che T-shirt, and I don’t know why.”

The saying reflects a justified cynicism among Argentineans that one of their favorite sons, Marxist revolutionary-for-hire Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, has been misappropriated by capitalist-minded opportunists and trend-seeking college kids the world over. Che’s iconic image, with his disheveled rock star hair falling out from a starred black beret, has been used illicitly to sell hundreds of products to the rebellious-minded, with T-shirts and posters probably topping the list.- Ross Bonarde, 5 Things You Didn't Know: Che Guevara, AskMen.com, August 22, 2008

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A company that sponsors tours to Cuba touts La Cabaña Fortress prison as the place where “Che helped consolidate the victory of the revolution.” Historians estimate Che "consolidated" the lives of as many as 2,000 people.

Once in power, Che Guevara was appointed head of La Cabaña, where he ran one of the century’s more modest -- if no less shameful -- kangaroo courts. He did his part to purge Cuba of Batista loyalists by playing judge, jury and executioner in a manner reminiscent of Stalin’s Great Terror of the 1930s. It was here he earned the name The Butcher of La Cabaña..- Ross Bonarde, 5 Things You Didn't Know: Che Guevara, AskMen.com, August 22, 2008

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In an appearance on TV, February 1959, Che said that “at La Cabaña all executions are carried out under my express orders.” There he presided over hundreds of executions in summary trials

For those who oppose the death penalty, the quote below will fit as a glove.

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The same group that wanted California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to stop the execution of multiple murderer Tookie Williams because of opposition to capital punishment have no problem walking around in Che T-shirts, despite the fact that on a routine basis Guevara carried out summary executions for Castro, assassinating hundreds of innocent people. - By IGS, FrontPage Magazine, IGS | Monday, July 30, 2007

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Thousands came to Che Guevara's Cuban mausoleum in July to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the revolutionary’s death—but they were paying respects at the wrong resting place. A French journalist claims that Fidel Castro’s government never actually found the Argentine’s body—as was triumphantly announced 10 years ago—and instead buried an unknown body under Guevara’s name, the New Republic reports.

Several inconsistencies prove that the body relocated to Cuba on the 30th anniversary of Che’s death isn't his. Guevara was buried alone, naked and with amputated hands; the exhumed body was discovered in a mass grave, wearing a jacket and with hands intact. The journalist berated Castro over the fabrication, asserting his power is “built on the abolition of historical truth.” - By Jonas Oransky, newser, Oct 31, 2007, RIP Che, but Not in His Tomb in Cuba

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. Gustavo Villoldo secretly buried the body of Che Guevara. He snipped a lock of Che's hair and wrote down the geographical coordinates before dropping the bodies into a common grave. No DNA testing was done of the body buried in Cuba. The discovery of Che's remains was a propaganda stunt by Castro to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Che's death.
Archivo adjunto 4618Gustavo (right) stands over the lifeless body of Che Guevara

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There is a saying in Argentina: “Tengo una remera del Che, y no sé por qué,” which roughly translates to “I have a Che T-shirt, and I don’t know why.”

The saying reflects a justified cynicism among Argentineans that one of their favorite sons, Marxist revolutionary-for-hire Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, has been misappropriated by capitalist-minded opportunists and trend-seeking college kids the world over. Che’s iconic image, with his disheveled rock star hair falling out from a starred black beret, has been used illicitly to sell hundreds of products to the rebellious-minded, with T-shirts and posters probably topping the list. - 5 Things You Didn't Know About Che Guevara, By Ross Bonander Entertainment Correspondent

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If you buy a Che shirt what are you endorsing? Capitalism. One of the many things Che was fighting against. By plastering his face on every piece of merchandise imaginable you have completely gone against his socialist beliefs.

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A company that sponsors tours to Cuba touts La Cabaña Fortress prison as the place where “Che helped consolidate the victory of the revolution.” Historians estimate Che "consolidated" the lives of as many as 2,000 people. - 5 Things You Didn't Know About Che Guevara, By Ross Bonander Entertainment Correspondent

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Guevara’s elevation as symbol of goodness, due to the self-indulgence and frivolity of pampered Western pseudo revolutionaries, speaks clearly of their lack of critical objective analysis

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Once in power, Che Guevara was appointed head of La Cabaña, where he ran one of the century’s more modest -- if no less shameful -- kangaroo courts. He did his part to purge Cuba of Batista loyalists by playing judge, jury and executioner in a manner reminiscent of Stalin’s Great Terror of the 1930s. It was here he earned the name The Butcher of La Cabaña. - 5 Things You Didn't Know About Che Guevara, By Ross Bonander Entertainment Correspondent

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The butcher of la Cabaña; he lives by the sword, he die by the sword. I wonder what rational will be used to excuse the non wavering support for another monster. Che only lived long enough to slay a few thousand, but his followers still are at it.

This quote put to rest the argument that Che was a Trotskyists

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The anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists had their press closed down and many militants were thrown in prison. Che was directly implicated in this. This was followed in 1962 with the banning of the Trotskyists and the imprisonment of their militants. Che said: "You cannot be for the revolution and be against the Cuban Communist Party". He repeated the old lies against the Trotskyists that they were agents of imperialism and provocateurs.-Steven, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, 1928-1967, September 25th, 2006

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From 1961 Guevara openly supported the repression of other revolutionary tendencies, including the Trotskyists who criticized Stalinism from the left. As he said:

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You cannot be for the revolution and be against the Cuban Communist Party. The Revolution and the Communist Party march together. - Che Guevara and the Cuban Trotskyists. Link: Permanent Revolution - Che Guevara and the Cuban Trotskyists

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Che was the main link, indeed the architect, of the increasingly closer relation between Cuba and the Soviet Union. The nuclear missile deal which almost resulted in a nuclear war in 1962 was engineered at the Cuban end by Che. When the Russians backed down in the face of US threats, Che was furious and said that if he had been in charge of the missiles, he would have fired them off! - Steven, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, 1928-1967, September 25th, 2006

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Che didn’t back up from a nuclear confrontation, he didn’t care that such confrontation will cause the total destruction of the island and its inhabitants.

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By 1963, Che had realised that Russian Stalinism was a shambles after a visit to Russia where he saw the conditions of the majority of the people, this after "Soviet-style planning" in the Cuban economy had been pushed through by him.

Instead of coming to some libertarian critique of Stalinism, he embraced Chinese Stalinism. He denounced the Soviet Union's policy of peaceful co-existence, which acknowledged that Latin America was the USA's backyard, and gave little or no support to any movement against American control. Fidel was now obsessed with saving the Cuban economy, himself arguing for appeasement. Against this Che talked about spreading armed struggle through Latin America, if necessary using nuclear war to help this come about!

Che may look like the archetypal romantic revolutionary. In reality he was a tool of the Stalinist power blocs and a partisan of nuclear war. His attitudes and actions reveal him to be no friend of the working masses, whether they be workers or peasants. - Steven, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, 1928-1967, September 25th, 2006

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During an international conference in February 1965 in Algiers, Che broke with the Soviet Union, accusing it of embracing capitalism because of the adoption of the "law of value." By that time he has already assumed the Maoist ideology

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A ROMANTIC hero to legions of fans the world over, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the poster boy of Marxist revolution, has come under assault as a cold-hearted monster four decades after his death in the Bolivian jungle.

A revisionist biography has highlighted Guevara’s involvement in countless executions of “traitors” and counter-revolutionary “worms”, offering a fresh glimpse of the dark side of the celebrated guerrilla fighter who helped Fidel Castro to seize power in Cuba. - Matthew Campbell, Behind Che Guevara’s mask, the cold executioner. The Sunday Times, September 16, 2007

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A number of years after his dead, the real truth about Che has become crystal clear. He was a cold blooded killer machine.

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They turned a blind eye to anything that did not fit in with their idealised image of Guevara. A prolific diarist, Guevara nevertheless wrote vividly of his role as an executioner. In one passage he described the execution of Eutimio Guerra, a peasant and army guide.

“I fired a .32calibre bullet into the right hemisphere of his brain which came out through his left temple,” was Guevara’s clinical description of the killing. “He moaned for a few moments, then died.”

This was the first of many “traitors” to be subjected to what Guevara called “acts of justice”. - Matthew Campbell, Behind Che Guevara’s mask, the cold executioner. The Sunday Times, September 16, 2007

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Machover, a Cuban exiled in France since 1963, blames the hero worship on French intellectuals who flocked to Havana in the 1960s and fell under the charm of the only “comandante” who could speak their language.

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“He would climb on top of a wall . . . and lie on his back smoking a Havana cigar while watching the executions,” the author quotes Dariel Alarcon Ramirez, one of Guevara’s former comrades in arms, as saying.

It was intended as a gesture of moral support for the men in the firing squad, says Machover. “For these men who had never seen Che before, it was something really important. It gave them courage.” - Matthew Campbell, Behind Che Guevara’s mask, the cold executioner. The Sunday Times, September 16, 2007

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What Che saw, the Cuban people are reaping: human misery, a legacy of murders concealed under clouds of cigar smoke.

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In a six-month period, Guevara implemented Castro’s orders with zeal, putting 180 prisoners in front of the firing squad after summary trials, according to Machover. Jose Vilasuso, an exiled lawyer, recalled Guevara instructing his “court” in the prison: “Don’t drag out the process. This is a revolution. Don’t use bourgeois legal methods, the proof is secondary. We must act through conviction. We’re dealing with a bunch of criminals and assassins.” - Matthew Campbell, Behind Che Guevara’s mask, the cold executioner. The Sunday Times, September 16, 2007

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This paints a very different picture of the “revolutionary” poster icon

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On Friday November 21st, while strolling through Central Park's Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Commentary Magazine's online editor Abe Greenwald noticed a statue and did a double take. "Is that...Che Guevara?"

Most New Yorkers seem unaware that but for the grace of God thousands of them would have been Che's victims too.

"If the missiles had remained (in Cuba),We would have used them against the very heart of the U.S., including New York City. The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims."- Ernesto 'Che" Guevara, November 1962. - Humberto Fontova, New York Honors Che Guevara with a Statue, American Thinker, November 25, 2008

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Che’s statue is a disgrace and should be removed. This Communist killer deserves no public recognition other than to be used as a remainder of the degree of human degradation.

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Imagine a monument to Hideki Tojo at the Arizona memorial in Pearl Harbor. Imagine one to Luftwaffe Chief, Herman Goering in London's Hyde Park. Heck, imagine one to Osama bin Laden in New York.

"The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind!" raved Ernesto "Che" Guevara in 1961. "Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination. We will bring the war to the imperialist enemies' very home, to his places of work and recreation. The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we'll destroy him! We must keep our hatred against them [the U.S.] alive and fan it to paroxysms!"- Ernesto 'Che" Guevara, November 1962. - Humberto Fontova, New York Honors Che Guevara with a Statue, American Thinker, November 25, 2008

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Che’s vicious and murderous act against innocent people gets a statue in Central Park. Who will get the next statue, Adolph Hitler?

Che, the son of a wealthy family, with his twisted ideology brought a lot of suffering to the Cuban people. This Doctor in Medicine use to writes this note “give him aspirin” as a command to execute the prisoners. In Bolivia he received a dose of his own medicine, they gave him aspirin.

He used to invite his guests to witness the execution, that’s how despicable he was. To have his statue in New York’s Central Park, is an insult to the people of New York.

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Stalin statue removed in Georgian home town
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/06/25/us-georgia-stalin-idUSTRE65O0XF20100625

Authorities removed a towering statue of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin from the central square of his native city in the dead of the night on Friday, carting away the monument to Georgia's most famous native.

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Stalin was a totalitarian dictator that killed millions of Russians under his rule. If Georgia authorities can remove Stalin statue, New York Mayor can remove Che statue too. It is Incredible that Mayor Bloomberg would even allow this to happen. There should be a petition of some sort banning this statue from Central Park

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On Nov. 17, 1962, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI discovered that Che Guevara's bombast had substance. They infiltrated and cracked a plot by Cuban agents that targeted Macy's, Gimbel's, Bloomingdale's and Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. The holocaust was set to go off the following week, on the day after Thanksgiving. Che Guevara was the head of Cuba's "Foreign Liberation Department" at the time.

A little perspective: for their March 2004 Madrid subway blasts, all 10 of them, that killed and maimed almost 2000 people, AL-Qaida used a grand total of 100 kilos of TNT. Castro and Che's agents planned to set off five times that explosive power in the three biggest department stores on earth, all packed to suffocation and pulsing with holiday cheer on the year's biggest shopping day. Thousands of New Yorkers, including women and children, actually -- given the date and targets -- probably mostly women and children, were to be incinerated and entombed. - Humberto Fontova, New York Honors Che Guevara with a Statue, American Thinker, November 25, 2008

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Certainly Che and Castro succeeded in bringing “change” to Cuba.