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Andy Garcia is Fed Up With People Who Glorify Che Guevara
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Posted on 04/25/2006 7:19:19 PM PDT by 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."


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1 posted on 04/25/2006 7:19:25 PM PDT by Number57
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"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?
2 posted on 04/25/2006 7:24:19 PM PDT by SAMS (Nobody loves a soldier until the enemy is at the gate; Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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To: Number57

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


3 posted on 04/25/2006 7:24:55 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (http://ntxsolutions.com)
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To: Number57
His distant cousin, "Cho" Guevara.....


4 posted on 04/25/2006 7:25:31 PM PDT by edpc
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To: Number57

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


5 posted on 04/25/2006 7:27:39 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana (Some people are living examples of why cousins shouldn't marry.)
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To: SAMS
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.

6 posted on 04/25/2006 7:29:13 PM PDT by Number57 ("Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.")
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To: Number57
If you gotta wear a "Che" T shirt, put this photo on it. (Communists look much better in this kind of pose.)


7 posted on 04/25/2006 7:31:02 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: DJ Taylor

Thanks! *saved*


8 posted on 04/25/2006 7:31:48 PM PDT by Number57 ("Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.")
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To: Number57

Sad. This guy is whistling in the wind.


9 posted on 04/25/2006 7:32:52 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
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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!)

10 posted on 04/25/2006 7:33:12 PM PDT by pettifogger
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To: hispanarepublicana

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



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


11 posted on 04/25/2006 7:33:53 PM PDT by Katya (Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
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To: edpc

Margret Cho it just Kim Il-Sung in drag


12 posted on 04/25/2006 7:34:07 PM PDT by tophat9000 (If it was illegal French Canadians would La Raza back them? Racist back there race over country)
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To: Number57

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.


13 posted on 04/25/2006 7:35:01 PM PDT by Toskrin (It didn't seem nostalgic when I was doing it)
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To: Number57
"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.

14 posted on 04/25/2006 7:35:55 PM PDT by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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and to wear his image is cool

That pretty well sums things up.
15 posted on 04/25/2006 7:36:43 PM PDT by P-40 (http://www.590klbj.com/forum/index.php?referrerid=1854)
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To: pettifogger
Not Ann, but not bad either.
16 posted on 04/25/2006 7:36:52 PM PDT by listenhillary (The original Contract with America - The U.S. Constitution)
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To: Katya

17 posted on 04/25/2006 7:37:23 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana (Some people are living examples of why cousins shouldn't marry.)
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To: Number57

18 posted on 04/25/2006 7:38:33 PM PDT by P.O.E.
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To: listenhillary

Where I can I get like ten of those?


19 posted on 04/25/2006 7:39:36 PM PDT by Number57 ("Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.")
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To: DJ Taylor

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


20 posted on 04/25/2006 7:40:10 PM PDT by true_blue_texican (grateful texan!)
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