Monument to "Che" in Venezuela destroyed

Noticiero Digital (Spanish Language) ^ | 10/18/2007

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This afternoon [10/18/2007] the editorial desk of Noticiero Digital contacted the news department of Mérida radio station Estudio 102.7 FM, who confirmed the information reported this morning.

They added that the recently inaugurated monument was destroyed by gunfire. The glass monument honoring Argentinian guerilla Ernesto Guevara was not well received by the area's communities, to whom [Che] represented a figure who was totally foreign to its history and values.

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[EggsAckley]

Very cool.

[XR7]

Awesome.

[domenad]

Haa haaaaaaaa! How’s that “new-man” thing working out for you, Chavez? Looks like you still have a few real men (or women) down there somewhere.

[Red Badger]

Atlas is starting to shrug in Venezuela..............

[domenad]

It occurred to me that they could really make it a monument to Che by propping it up and pretending it was never destroyed.

[XR7]

[theDentist]

Good shooting Venezuelans. Your next target wears a red shrt, a military cap, and has buck teeth...

[JZelle]

Now that would make a nice t-shirt!!

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"We don't want any monument to Che"

"Minister of Industry" (who destroyed Cuban industry)

"Ambassador" (who isolated Cuba from the world)

"Director of the Bank of Cuba" (who bankrupted the island)

"A cold blooded murderer"

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Via con Dios...

[TChris]

Bravo!

Che was a murderous Commie thug. They don't deserve any monuments.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Where’s the before picture?

[DogByte6RER]

"I did it!"

[FastCoyote]

“Very cool.”

Yes, very cool. I was just trying to explain to some younger friends the fine points of Che as an anarchist/communist/butcher. This will help in our next discussion, which will be how Hugo is about to drive Venezuela into abject poverty.

[Badeye]

Glad to see some exhibit sanity in South America these days.

And nice shooting as well.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Our friends have excellent taste in targets. May there be more to come.

[Ramius]

~Now~ it’s art.

[rod1]

Looks like the Venezuela resisters of totalitarian thugs use more than women’s panties (a reference to the Myramar opponents’ tactics) to express their opposition.

[Alright_on_the_LeftCoast]

Need to move these people to Portland Oregon, where the IDIOTS on City Council are changing the name of Interstate Avenue to, get this: Hugo Chavez Boulevard

Totally unbelievable...These city council members should be dragged outside, CURB STOMPED, tarred and feathered and shipped to Venezuela!!!

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I’m keeping that one!

[wideawake]

How satisfying that must have felt.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

http://www.mochinet.com/poets/service/index.cgi?ListTitles=Bar-Room%20Ballads&Poem=18

Same idea as “The Ballad of Lenin’s Tomb”

They tell you he’s a mummy -
don’t you make that bright mistake:
I tell you - he’s a dummy; aye, a fiction and a fake.
This eye beheld the bloody bomb that bashed him on the bean.
I heard the crash, I saw the flash,
yet . . . there he lies serene.
And by the roar that rocked the Tomb I ask:
how could that be?
But if you doubt that deed of doom, just go yourself and see.
You think I’m mad, or drunk, or both . . . Well,
I don’t care a damn:
I tell you this: their Lenin is a waxen, show-case SHAM.

Such was the yarn he handed me,
Down there in Casey’s Bar,
That Rooshun bug with the scrambled mug
From the land of the Commissar.
It may be true, I leave it you
To figger out how far.

[GeronL]

bump

[Frwy]

So sad. NOT. We should care about a monument to Che and the news on the damaged Viet Nam memorial has dried up? Disgraceful. We care to d___ much about things that just don't matter - things we couldn't and wouldn't do anything about and forget the important things.

Never, never, never apply this forgetfulness to 9-11.

[andy58-in-nh]

Portland Oregon, where the IDIOTS on City Council are changing the name of Interstate Avenue to, get this: Hugo Chavez Boulevard

You're kidding, right? OK, assuming that you're not kidding: aren't there any patriotic Americans left in Portland to oppose it?

[Clint N. Suhks]

Liberals go on suicide watch!

[mass55th]

I'm completely shattered.

;-)

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I image-Google all possible variations in Spanish and English and were not able to find a picture. Just an article when it went up. It was only recently installed.

[Ron in Acreage]

And Chavez as an encore would be a nice addition.

[Lucas McCain]

Get it right. They are changing the name to Cesar Chavez Blvd. Nothing to do with Hugo Chavez

[DogByte6RER]

The townspeople had an uprising and destroyed the Che monument because the People's Collective Store ran out of these fine socialist products...

[ovrtaxt]

Awesome. I wish I could get a t-shirt that does that...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

That’s obscene !

[ovrtaxt]

lol funny how Che makes everyone think of those stupid t shirts...

[MPJackal]

“aren’t there any patriotic Americans left in Portland to oppose it?”

There are a lot opposing it. But this is the peoples republic of Portland, the socialist don’t care what the people want. We are to stupid to know what is best for us. Hell, we can’t even pump our own gas, we HAVE to let Juan do it for us.

[libs_kma]

"Need to move these people to Portland Oregon, where the IDIOTS on City Council are changing the name of Interstate Avenue to, get this: Hugo Chavez Boulevard"

Isn't Portland just a northern suburb of San Francisco?

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[DogByte6RER]

That’s a great poster!

Ahem...could you help me a bit with the translation?

(I want to make it into a poster sign for a future Protest Warrior/FReeper crash)

[Alright_on_the_LeftCoast]

I double checked, you are correct...

My girlfriend lives in Portland, she had it wrong...although Cesar Chavez isn’t much better....

[JZelle]

He’s nothing more than a fashion statement for the clueless now.

[DogByte6RER]

Also, check out Contra Cafe’s Venezuela Freedom Blend coffee at:

http://www.contracafe.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=CC&Product_Code=CCVZFREEBLEND

[Cold Heart]

My first thought too. So would the picture in post #7.
Couple little sparkling dangles at the toes & finger.

[BallyBill]

I think it looks beautiful the way it is. My bet is that an errant meteorite hit it.

God hates Commies, too!

[JRochelle]

I found out today that my favorite professor admires Che G.
And according to him Cuba isn’t so bad.

My jaw is still on the floor.

And he loves Hillary.

[Bon mots]

The "anti-Che" did it!

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Venezuela:

Let’s end communism!

Let’s rescue our nation and our Venezuelan pride!

Defend what’s ours!

NO to the Cuban invasion!

Stop the red abuse!

[Landru]

Too bad it wasn't Chavez' *head*.

But not to worry, there's time.

...Hugo's time will come.

[N. Theknow]

Che now belongs to a splinter group with a poor reflection.

[windcliff]

Who has a broom?