Andy Garcia is Fed Up With People Who Glorify Che Guevara

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[Number57]

Andy Garcia is urging fashion-conscious rebels to stop wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the image of Latino revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara because they remind Cubans of terrible times. The actor accepts that Guevara stands for rebellion and is seen as a hero to many, but he sees the revolutionary as a butcher who killed millions of his countrymen.

Argentine-born Guevara helped current Cuban leader Fidel Castro overthrow General Fulgencio Batista's government in a guerrilla revolution in the late 1950s.

Garcia, who left Cuba when he was five, says, "I'd be curious to go around and ask them how much they really know about Che. Some people wearing the T-shirt don't even know his name. They know he's some sort of revolutionary, and to wear his image is cool because you feel like a revolutionary. Someone told me the other day that they asked one of these people if they were aware of all the executions that Che was a part of in Cuba and the guy said, 'Well, I don't know if that's true, as if it had been made up to discredit him.' I wish you could say it was made up because that would mean that all those people didn't die under his thumb. That's the tragedy."

[Number57]

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[SAMS]

"Andy Garcia is urging fashion-conscious rebels to stop wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the image of Latino revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara"

Well, that's a nice start Andy. Now, how about showing some real cujones & take on those Hollywood jerks that keep running down to Cuba to meet with Fidal?

[Lunatic Fringe]

Uh oh... Andy is bucking the liberal ideology. No wonder his career went into the toilet.

[edpc]

His distant cousin, "Cho" Guevara.....

[hispanarepublicana]

I always knew there was a reason Andy Garcia made me think sinful thoughts.

[Number57]

Q: Have you ever thought about going back?

A: Every day I think about going back.

Q: You could. People go to Cuba all the time from Canada or Mexico. It has become this sexy tourist destination because it's taboo.

A: Well, Cuba has always been sexy. (Laughs) It's sexy even in the state of decay it's in. But to go there is illegal. I would never go back under those conditions. Emotionally, I've never wanted to go back while Castro was there. I'll wait until he's dead and buried.

[DJ Taylor]

If you gotta wear a "Che" T shirt, put this photo on it. (Communists look much better in this kind of pose.)

[Number57]

Thanks! *saved*

[BunnySlippers]

Sad. This guy is whistling in the wind.

[pettifogger]

I think there should be a picture rule on FR about Andy like there is for Ann Coulter.

Oooh - la - la! Love those swarthy men. Sorry, Mr. P.

(who is a gorgeous hunk of black Irish, don' cha know!)

[Katya]

I think I'll have to borrow your reason ;)



Now where are all those freepers who post pics????

[tophat9000]

Margret Cho it just Kim Il-Sung in drag

[Toskrin]

Here in Atlanta, someone actually named a restaurant "Che". I know it means "friend" in Spanish, but they must have been thinking of Guevara. It closed down.

[blackbart.223]

"Argentine-born Guevara helped current Cuban leader Fidel Castro overthrow General Fulgencio Batista's government in a guerrilla revolution in the late 1950s."

It's been posited that Castro tipped off The CIA and the Argentine government about Che's location so he could be knocked off. I guess Castro didn't want the competition.

As an aside,kids wearing Che tee shirts are not old enough to know about him anyway.

[P-40]

and to wear his image is cool

That pretty well sums things up.

[listenhillary]

Not Ann, but not bad either.

[hispanarepublicana]

[P.O.E.]

[Number57]

Where I can I get like ten of those?

[true_blue_texican]

Oh, I do like that photo!!! I see a T-shirt in my future!!!!!!