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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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To: Number57

181 posted on 02/28/2008 8:13:43 AM PST by CJ Wolf (The Ron Paul - Let Freedom Ping list - freepmail me to be on it.)
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To: Berosus

As you once pointed out to me, Evian spelled backwards is naive. :’)


182 posted on 02/28/2008 8:48:01 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/___________________Profile updated Tuesday, February 19, 2008)
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To: CaliGirlGodHelpMe; Glenmerle

I was trying to figure out why people were pinging me to this thread but then I realized that I had actually posted to it 2 years ago! LOL! Who revived this?


183 posted on 02/28/2008 10:21:11 AM PST by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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To: listenhillary

NOT GUILTY!


184 posted on 02/28/2008 10:36:57 AM PST by Ignatz (I am so jealous of these female teacher sex scandals. I didn't even get to bang the erasers!)
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To: Number57
Anti-Che T-Shirts
 
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185 posted on 02/28/2008 1:57:20 PM PST by FreeKeys ("Once Hillary is elected she will create a new form of secret police."- Dick Morris (her ex-employee)
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To: freekitty; Albion Wilde; Glenmerle
All I can say is that Mr. Pettifogger reaps all kinds of benefits of his Mrs. perusing the Andy Garcia threads.

'Nuff said.

186 posted on 02/28/2008 6:01:11 PM PST by pettifogger
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To: pettifogger
Mr. Pettifogger reaps all kinds of benefits of his Mrs. perusing the Andy Garcia threads.


LOL!!

(You mean there are more Andy Garcia threads??!!??)

187 posted on 02/28/2008 6:20:05 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("I have some news. Al-Qaida is in Iraq. It's called 'al-Qaida in Iraq.' " —John McCain)
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To: Glenmerle
"I think there should be a picture rule on FR about Andy like there is for Ann Coulter." Seconded! (Though it's best if they're photos from about ten years ago.)

Motion on the "Andy Garcia" rule carried.

As to the "ten years old or more" rider, I'm starting to think the same can be said about Coulter pix. Most of them that you see here usually are...

188 posted on 02/28/2008 6:27:50 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("I have some news. Al-Qaida is in Iraq. It's called 'al-Qaida in Iraq.' " —John McCain)
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To: pettifogger

ROTFLOL


189 posted on 02/29/2008 3:22:31 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Pining_4_TX; T. Buzzard Trueblood; blackbart.223
Yes, it's hard to tell who is who in the left these days.

Now, here's some photos from my memorabilia:

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Che with his captors

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Che's executioner, Sergeant Mario Teran

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Che with his band of communist insurgents near Vallegrande, Bolivia (I'll bet you can't pick Che out of the group.)

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Che's passport. Now you can pick Che out of the above group

190 posted on 03/01/2008 8:41:52 AM PST 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: hispanarepublicana

Andy Garcia is also prolife...


191 posted on 03/01/2008 8:49:36 AM PST by latina4dubya
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To: DJ Taylor
I guess he doesn't’t look revolutionary enough for a tee shirt here.
192 posted on 03/02/2008 6:30:14 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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