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."

[CJ Wolf]

[SunkenCiv]

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

[mollynme]

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?

[Ignatz]

NOT GUILTY!

[FreeKeys]

Anti-Che T-Shirts
 

CHE-MART
Commies
Bureaucrash.com
Murderer/Asesino
Protest Warrior
LiberaChe
NoChe
Che is Dead
CommieFashion
IgnorantRichKids

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[pettifogger]

All I can say is that Mr. Pettifogger reaps all kinds of benefits of his Mrs. perusing the Andy Garcia threads.

'Nuff said.

[Albion Wilde]

Mr. Pettifogger reaps all kinds of benefits of his Mrs. perusing the Andy Garcia threads.

LOL!!

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

[Albion Wilde]

"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...

[freekitty]

ROTFLOL

[DJ Taylor]

Yes, it's hard to tell who is who in the left these days.

Now, here's some photos from my memorabilia:

Che with his captors

Che's executioner, Sergeant Mario Teran

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

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

[latina4dubya]

Andy Garcia is also prolife...

[blackbart.223]

I guess he doesn't’t look revolutionary enough for a tee shirt here.