Les enfants du paradis communiste (Che Guevara - in myth and reality)

Fausta's Blog ^ | 05/19/2007 | Fausta Wertz

[saveliberty]

The title refers to an old French movie but the post has to do with the current propaganda trend in central New Jersey, which implies that the viewer should take it all in, in an attitude of child-like innocence.

 

First we had the Princeton "Human Rights" Film Festival, now there's the Che show at the Mason Gross Galleries in New Brunswick (emphasis on gross), gloriously promoted in the local paper as,

 

    The continued power of Che Guevara as a symbol of hope and opposition across cultures is examined at Mason Gross Galleries.

 

I'll give you some data on the "symbol of hope and opposition": here's a list of 216 documented victims of Che Guevara in Cuba, 1957-1959 (pdf file). Here's another list compiled by Dr. Armando Lago for his book,

 

    EXECUTED BY CHE IN THE SIERRA MAESTRA MOUNTAINS

    ARUSTIDIO

    MANUEL CAPITAN

    JUAN CHANG

    EUTIMIO GUERRA

    DIONISIO LEBRIGIO

    JUAN LEBRIGIO

    EL NEGRO NAPOLES

    CHICHO OSORIO

    DOS "NO-IDENTIFICADOS'' EN EL 04/57

 

    EXECUTED BY CHE IN SANTA CLARA CITY

    RAMON ALBA

    JOSE BARROSO

    JOAQUIN CASILLAS

    FELIX CRUZ

    HECTOR MIRABAL

    J. MIRABAL

    FELIX MONTANO

    CORNELIO ROJAS

    ALEJANDRO GARCIA OLAYON

    ALEJANDRO ROJAS

    VILALLA

 

    EXECUTED BY CHE AT LA CABAï¿1⁄2A PRISON IN HAVANA

    VILAU ABREU

    HUMBERTO AGUIAR

    GERMAN AGUIRRE

    PELAYO ALAYON

    JOSE LUIS ALFARO

    PEDRO ALFARO

    MARIANO ALONSO

    JOSE ALVARO

    ANIELLA

    MARIO ARES POLO

    JOSE RAMON BACALLAO

    CEVERINO BARRIOS

    EUGENIO BECKER

    FRANCISCO BECKER

    RAMON BISCET

    ROBERTO CALZADILLA

    EUFEMIO CANO

    JUAN CAPOTE FIALLO

    ANTONIO CARRALERO

    GERTRUDIS CASTELLANOS

    JOSE CASTAï¿1⁄2O QUEVEDO

    RAUL CASTAï¿1⁄2O

    EUFEMIO CHALA

    JOSE CHAMACE

    JOSE CHAMIZO

    RAUL CLAUSELL

    ANGEL CLAUSELL

    DEMETRIO CLAUSELL

    JOSE CLAUSELL

    ELOY CONTRERAS

    ROBERTO CORBO

    EMILIO CRUZ

    JUAN FELIPE CRUZ

    ORESTES CRUZ

    HUMBERTO CUEVAS

    CUNY

    ANTONIO DE BECHE

    MATEO DELGADO

    ARMANDO DELGADO

    RAMON DESPAIGNE

    JOSE DIAZ CABEZAS

    ANTONIO DUARTE

    RAMON FERNANDEZ OJEDA

    RUDY FERNANDEZ

    FERRAN ALFONSO

    SALVADOR FERRERO

    VICTOR FIGUEREDO

    EDUARDO FORTE

    UGARDE GALAN

    RAFAEL GARCIA MUï¿1⁄2IZ

    ADALBERTO GARCIA

    ALBERTO GARCIA

    JACINTO GARCIA

    EVELIO GASPAR

    ARMADA GIL

    JOSE GONZALEZ MALAGON

    EVARISTO GONZALEZ

    EZEQUIEL GONZALEZ

    SECUNDINO GONZALEZ

    RICARDO GRAO

    BONIFACIO GRASSO

    RICARDO GRAU

    OSCAR GUERRA

    JULIAN HERNANDEZ

    FRANCISCO HERNANDEZ LEYVA (father of Pepe Hernandez)

    ANTONIO HERNANDEZ

    GERARDO HERNANDEZ

    OLEGARIO HERNANDEZ

    SECUNDINO HERNANDEZ

    JESUS INSUA

    ENRIQUE IZQUIERDO

    OSMIN JORRIN

    SILVINO JUNCO

    ENRIQUE LAROSA

    IGNACIO LAAAPARRA

    JESUS LAZO

    ARIEL LIMA LAGO

    RAUL LOPEZ VIDAL

    ARMANDO MAS

    ENERLIO MATA

    ELPIDIO MEDEROS

    JOSE MEDINAS

    JOSE MESA

    FIDEL MESQUIA

    JUAN MILIAN

    FRANCISCO MIRABAL

    LUIS MIRABAL

    ERNESTO MORALES

    PEDRO MOREJON

    DR. CARLOS MUIï¿1⁄2O

    CESAR NECOLARDES ROJAS

    VICTOR NECOLARDES ROJAS

    JOSE NUï¿1⁄2EZ

    VITERBO O'RREILLY

    FELIX OVIEDO

    MANUEL PANEQUE

    PEDRO PEDROSO

    RAFAEL PEDROSO

    DIEGO PEREZ CUESTA

    JUAN PEREZ

    DIEGO PEREZ CRELA

    JOSE POZO

    EMILIO PUEBLA

    ALFREDO PUPO

    SECUNDINO RAMIREZ

    RAMON RAMOS

    PABLO RAVELO

    RUBEN REY

    MARIO RISQUELME

    FERNANDO RIVERA

    PABLO RIVERA

    MANUEL RODRIGUEZ

    MARCOS RODRIGUEZ

    NEMESIO RODRIGUEZ

    PABLO RODRIGUEZ

    RICARDO RODRIGUEZ

    JOSE SALDARA

    PEDRO SANTANA

    SERGIO SIERRA

    JUAN SILVA

    FAUSTO SILVA

    ELPIDIO SOLER

    JESUS SOSA BLANCO

    RENATO SOSA

    SERGIO SOSA

    PEDRO SOTO

    OSCAR SUAREZ

    RAFAEL TARRAGO

    TEODORO TELLEZ

    FRANCISCO TELLEZ

    JOSE TIN

    FRANCISCO TRAVIESO

    LEONARDO TRUJILLO

    TRUJILLO

    LUPE VALDES

    MARCELINO VALDES

    ANTONIO VALENTIN

    MANUEL VAZQUEZ

    VERDECIA

    DAMASO ZAYAS

 

Here's one instance of Che's modus operandi:

 

    A Cuban gentleman named Pierre San Martin was also among those jailed by the gallant Che. A few years ago he recalled the horrors in an El Nuevo Herald article.

 

    "Thirty-two of us were crammed into a cell," he recalls. "Sixteen of us would stand while the other sixteen tried to sleep on the cold filthy floor. We took shifts that way. Actually, we considered ourselves lucky. After all, we were alive. Dozens were led from the cells to the firing squad daily. The volleys kept us awake. We felt that any one of those minutes would be our last.

 

    "One morning the horrible sound of that rusty steel door swinging open startled us awake and Che's guards shoved a new prisoner into our cell. His face was bruised and smeared with blood. We could only gape. He was a boy, couldn't have been much older than 12, maybe 14.

 

    "'What did you do?' We asked horrified. 'I tried to defend my papa,' gasped the bloodied boy. 'I tried to keep these Communist sons of b**tches form murdering him! But they sent him to the firing squad.'"

 

    Soon Che's goons came back, the rusty steel door opened and they yanked the valiant boy out of the cell. "We all rushed to the cell's window that faced the execution pit," recalls Mr. San Martin. "We simply couldn't believe they'd murder him! Then we spotted him, strutting around the blood-drenched execution yard with his hands on his waist and barking orders ï¿1⁄2 the gallant Che Guevara.

 

    "Here Che was, finally in his element. In battle he was a sad joke, a bumbler of epic proportions [for details see "Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant"], but up against disarmed and bloodied boys he was a snarling tiger.

 

    "'Kneel Down!' Che barked at the boy.

 

    "'ASSASSINS!' We screamed from our window. 'MURDERERS!! HOW CAN YOU MURDER A LITTLE BOY!'

 

    "'I said, KNEEL DOWN!' Che barked again.

 

    "The boy stared Che resolutely in the face. 'If you're going to kill me,' he yelled. 'you'll have to do it while I'm standing! MEN die standing!'

 

    "COWARDS! MURDERERS! Sons of B**TCHES!" The men yelled desperately from their cells. "LEAVE HIM ALONE!" HOW CAN ...?!"

 

    "And then we saw Che unholstering his pistol. It didn't seem possible. But Che raised his pistol, put the barrel to the back of the boy's neck and blasted. The shot almost decapitated the young boy.

    "We erupted. We were enraged, hysterical, banging on the bars.'MURDERERS! ASSASSINS!' His murder finished, Che finally looked up at us, pointed his pistol, and BLAM-BLAM-BLAM! emptied his clip in our direction. Several of us were wounded by his shots."

 

    To a man (and boy) Che's murder victims went down in a blaze of defiance and glory. So let's recall Che's own plea when the wheels of justice finally turned and he was cornered in Bolivia. "Don't Shoot!" he whimpered. "I'm Che! I'm worth more to you alive than dead!"

 

Don't expect to find any of that at the Mason Gross Galleries in New Brunswick.

 

This is what happens to artists in present-day Cuba.

 

[saveliberty]

Read Fausta's links-- I couldn't link the pdf file

[saveliberty]

I thought that Fausta posted a good read here.

[sono]

Che proved to be such a liability that even Castro exiled him to his ultimate fate in Bolivia.

[saveliberty]

Amazing that he’s thought of as a hero

[sono]

To be honest, some regard Al Capone and Adolf Hitler as heroes.

[Bahbah]

He enjoyed killing.

And he enjoyed watching killing.

[slow5poh]

I am very tired of the popularity of che. Especially among people my age (25) and college students. My sisters boyfriend is also (25) and he likes che and declares himself a socialist. I think alot of people just wear his shirt because they are mis informed about the freedom fighter he was. I guess they were never educated about his violent nature and all of the people he butchered. It makes me sick to see stupid college kids wearing his shirt.

[Bahbah]

It makes me sick to see stupid college kids wearing his shirt.

It should. It they actually know about him and like what they know, they're psychopaths. If they don't, they are ignorant.

[saveliberty]

Yes he did

[saveliberty]

More along these lines from Gateway Pundit

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/05/mass-blogger-campaign-denounces-spain.html

[FOXFANVOX]

Hi, Save. You are supposed to be out eating French cuisine and drinking French wines. Go, girl, go!

[And perhaps some chocolate, I should add.]

BTW: under the new immigration bill you may not be able to reenter the US unless you promise to vote Democratic. [I believe Teddy the K. added that in the small print!]

[darkangel82]

I’m 24, and the stupidity of many people our age always baffles me.

[saveliberty]

LOL

Too late. I arrived in the late afternoon and customs forgot to make me take Governor Deval’s mandatory oath of loyalty.

Early day and long day today. We are taking the kids to the airport to see them off and then I have to get back to studying. L’examen is on Wednesday.

Cheers,

sl

[FOXFANVOX]

Welcome home, Save. And good luck on the exam.

[*remember "d" and/or "all of the above" are usually good choices!]

8)

[saveliberty]

LOL

Thanks, FOX!

[slow5poh]

Yes i know. Well the only news and info they get are from the MSM and the liberal school system, so unless they are befriended by a conserative, how are they supposed to know i guess.