'Cool' Icon Che Guevara Was a Murderous Thug, Author Says

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200707/NAT20070730a.html ^ | July 30, 2007 | Michael Chapman

[Mount Athos]

Che Guevara, who aided Fidel Castro in his rise to power in Cuba in the late 1950s and early 1960s, is today an icon of liberal culture worldwide. His picture and image adorn countless products, from posters to t-shirts to CD cases to bikinis.

Robert Redford made a 2004 movie about Guevara, "The Motorcycle Diaries," which won media praise and an Academy Award. Two more Guevara movies are due for release in 2008.

Yet the liberal-left and Hollywood are perpetuating myths, if not outright lies, about Guevara, according to author Humberto Fontova in his book, "Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him."

Fontova discussed with Cybercast News Service his new book and what he describes as the real Guevara - the man who directly helped Castro put into place a communist regime responsible for at least 102,000 deaths and which has cycled 500,000 people through its gulag.

Cybercast News Service: Why did you write this book?

Humberto Fontova: Because of the blizzard, the avalanche, the non-stop flood of complete B.S. that has been issuing from Castro's Cuba and from Castro himself since February 1957, when he had his first interview with the New York Times. He has had the Western media eating out of the palm of his hand.

I'll tell you what I told Alan Colmes, from Fox's "Hannity & Colmes." He said, "How can you - all of a sudden - discover all these things about Che Guevara?" And I said, "No, Alan, these things were discovered in 1959. These things were recorded as they were happening. But it's just that they never made it into the mainstream media, not just in the United States but also worldwide."

Cybercast News Service: Who was reporting the facts about Che Guevara in 1959 and not the propaganda?

Humberto Fontova: Cuban-Americans primarily. It was recorded a lot in Spanish newspapers. A lot of the sources for my book were Spanish-language sources - there were books and periodicals published in places such as Mexico City and Madrid. When many Cubans got to America, they learned that no major publisher would touch an anti-Castro book. Some people started their own publishing companies, but the sad part is that most of this stuff was published only in Spanish. But these things have been known since 1959.

Cybercast News Service: Who were the people in America and in the Western world praising Che Guevara and Castro?

Author Humberto FontavaHumberto Fontova: At the same time that Che is the chief executioner for the Cuban revolution and hundreds of bodies are being piled up every week by firing squads, we have none other than Ed Sullivan referring to Fidel Castro as the George Washington of his country. Now, Ed Sullivan made amends later. He is one of the few who actually retracted his comment. But we had Harry Truman saying Castro was doing what was best for Cuba - quote "we ought to extend our sympathy and help him to do what is right for them." We had CBS's Edward R. Murrow. Look at the movie "Good Night and Good Luck" - oh, Ed Murrow snarled when he got in front of Joe McCarthy. He was the grand inquisitor when he got in front of a right-winger. Well, Murrow actually went to Havana to interview Castro, and he complimented his dog, "That's a cute puppy, little Fidelita!" In that interview, he got no further than some talk about Castro's son - who Castro never took care of and abandoned - and his "little puppy." That's the type of investigative journalism we've come to expect when investigating things in Cuba.

Cybercast News Service: Why are so many people in the U.S. media and in academia so enthralled with Che Guevara and apparently so willing to repeat myths and distort facts about him?

Humberto Fontova: The whole thing starts with the cachet, the coolness surrounding the Cuban revolution. At the time, the United States was the biggest fuddy-duddy, Leave-it-to-Beaver country in the world. Then, all of a sudden, you had these long-haired revolutionaries down in Cuba - they were the first hippies, the first beatniks. Look at Che Guevara in those years. Take off the beard and you've got Jim Morrison. Raul Castro used to carry his shoulder-length blond hair in a ponytail. Camilo Cienfuegos looked like another Jerry Garcia. There was that coolness cachet, plus all the misconceptions about what Cuba was like prior to these guys.

Cybercast News Service: So, there is a lot of ignorance about pre-Castro Cuba?

Humberto Fontova: Yes. In fact, in 1958, Cuba had a higher per capita income than half of Europe. It had double Japan's per capita income. Cuban laborers, the unionized labor - the Cuban labor force was more unionized than the U.S. labor force - had the eighth highest wages in the world. This was at a time when Cubans could get a U.S. visa for the asking. Any Cubans could leave their country, with all of their property, at any time. At that time, in the 1950s, there were fewer Cubans living in the United States than there were Americans living in Cuba. No country in the world can make that claim. Cuba had the 13th lowest infant mortality rate, not in the hemisphere but in the world. Cuba had more doctors and dentists per capita than Great Britain and the United States.

So people now say, "Fine, Humberto, if Cuba was such a rosy place, then why did they have a revolution? Why did so many Cubans back Fidel Castro?" The answer is simple: It was not billed as a revolution. It was billed as a political rebellion. In other words, what was going to be ousted was the quasi-dictatorial regime of [Fulgencio] Batista, which was really not dictatorial technically. It was corrupt and sporadically brutal because of its police. But, as I said, in those years, the 1950s, people used to flock into Cuba. Cuba took in more immigrants, as a percentage of population, before the Cuban revolution, than did the United States. People used to jump on rafts from say, neighboring Haiti and Jamaica to try to enter Cuba. They were as desperate to enter the place then as they are to exit it now.

Now, we know that 20 percent - out of a country that was previously inundated with immigrants - of the population has fled. And that's a small percentage of those who wanted to leave and want to leave. So the ignorance about Cuba before Castro adds a lot to the myth and mis-reporting about Cuba.

Cybercast News Service: When academics and Hollywood and establishment media promote untruths about Guevara and Cuba, is it ignorance, or that they're sympathetic towards Castro, or both?

Humberto Fontova: It's a combination and reflexive anti-Americanism. You have to remember that, well before Osama bin Laden, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were the emblems of anti-Americanism, the worldwide emblems. Basically, the Cuban revolution and everything associated with it - and Che Guevara is the primary symbol of that - is the handiest club to pick up and whack the U.S. on the head.

Cybercast News Service: What do you consider to be some of Guevara's greatest crimes or offenses that people today should know about?

Humberto Fontova: He was the chief executioner. He performed for the Cuban revolution what Heinrich Himmler performed for the Nazis. Everything Che Guevara did was directed by Fidel Castro. Early on, when they were in the mountains, Castro realized that Che seemed to relish executing little farm boys. There were executions carried out, carried out in the mountains, of so-called informers. I interviewed many people who witnessed those executions. There was no due process.

Che Guevara wrote a letter to his father in 1957 and to his abandoned wife. In the letter to her, he wrote, "I'm here in Cuba's hills, alive and thirsting for blood." Then, to his father, "I really like killing." The man was a clinical sadist, whereas Fidel Castro you could describe as a psychopath in that the murders did not affect him one way or the other. It was a means to an end - the consolidation of his one-man rule. Che has a famous quote, where he wrote, a revolutionary has to become "a cold killing machine." The thing was, Che Guevara was anything but cold. He was a warm killing machine. He relished the slaughter.

Cybercast News Service: Are there reliable estimates on the number of people killed by Guevara or killed as a result of his policies or orders?

Humberto Fontova: He was put in charge of the execution squads in early 1959. He stayed in charge of the prison where most of the executions took place in Havana. And in the months he was in charge there, about four months until July 1959, the estimates run from 500 to 1,182 men and boys sent to the firing squad without due process. But the system he set in place for the executions ... in that system of justice, according to "The Black Book of Communism" - the definitive source - by the mid-sixties, 14,000 men and boys had been executed in Cuba. That was the year, December 1964, when Che Guevara ... addressed the General Assembly, and he said: "Executions? Certainly we execute. And we will continue executing as long as it is necessary!" So, in other words, he still claimed the system. It was still his system at work.

Cybercast News Service: When you use the phrase "useful idiot," how do you define that?

Humberto Fontova: There's some question whether the phrase was termed by Stalin or by Lenin. But it's related to Lenin's famous comment that, when asked, "where will we get the rope to hang the capitalist class?" Lenin said, "they will sell it to us." It's related to that, to the people who went to the Soviet Union, who saw what they wanted to see, and helped spread communist lies throughout the West. They were "useful" to the Soviet propaganda machine. The Soviet Union no longer exists, but these people, to this day, are "useful" to the Castro regime because that is still the emblem. You go to Cuba today and Che Guevara's face is plastered everywhere. And that face is considered the emblem of the Castro regime and the Cuban revolution. So, those who help whitewash and spread that message are useful to this day to the Castro regime.

Cybercast News Service: Who are the leading "useful idiots" in the United States when it comes to Guevara and Castro?

Humberto Fontova: I guess Robert Redford would have to take first place because of the movie, "The Motorcycle Diaries" - a movie, by the way, that had to be screened for Fidel Castro and Aleida Guevara, Che's widow, in Havana before the Cuban regime gave Robert Redford permission and benediction to release it in the U.S. You can imagine in this country if a U.S. director needed the permission of Nancy Regan to release that HBO movie, "The Reagans." You can imagine the howls of protest from the Hollywood crowd. But for some reason it's considered perfectly proper for a Hollywood director, who fancies himself a champion of artistic freedom, to require the permission of a Stalinist regime in order to release a movie - because that Stalinist regime helped him make it, helped propagate the myth.

It's getting worse now because, coming up there will be two movies about Che Guevara. Steven Soderbergh, an Oscar winner, will be directing Benicio Del Toro as Che Guevara. One movie will be called "Guerilla," although there was no guerilla war in Cuba. The other will be called "The Argentine." They basically pick up where "The Motorcycle Diaries" left off and take Che Guevara through the Cuban revolution, then to Africa, and then to his demise in Bolivia.

We have a clue as to what these movies will be like in that Benicio Del Toro made a comment a few months ago because he's studying up on his character. He said, "Che was just one of those guys who walked the walk and talked the talk. There's just something cool about people like that. The more I get to know Che, the more I respect him."

More interestingly, the screenplay is based on Che Guevara's official diaries. These diaries were published in Havana and edited by Fidel Castro. The propaganda ministry of a Stalinist regime is essentially issuing the screenplay for a Hollywood movie. You can't make this stuff up.

Cybercast News Service: Did Robert Redford's movie rely on similar Castro-regime-approved materials?

Humberto Fontova: Yes, Che Guevara's diaries. Those are the same diaries that he kept as a young man when he was traveling in South America. They were published in Havana. It's very interesting because Robert Redford chose to omit many fascinating items. For instance, in those diaries - the original ones - Che Guevara has a passage where he says, "crazy with fury, I will murder any enemy that falls into my hands. My nostrils dilate while savoring the sweet odor of blood and gunpowder." Naturally, for some reason, that was left out of Redford's heart-warming movie.

All you have to do is take Che Guevara's writing and put it alongside that of [Seung-hui] Cho, the Virginia Tech killer, and you can't tell the difference. Cho comes across as healthy compared to Che Guevara. Yet I haven't seen too many Cho t-shirts around, while there are lots of Che t-shirts.

Cybercast News Service: So, Robert Redford is a "useful idiot"?

Humberto Fontova: Yes, because "The Motorcycle Diaries" movie has probably done as much as anything else to boost the Che Guevara cachet.

Cybercast News Service: And you think Guevara has become so idolized because of people like Redford?

Humberto Fontova: Yes, ignorance and reflexive anti-Americanism. That sums it up. Che is known as a cool symbol. You can be anti-American and be Osama bin Laden, but that's not as cool. Put al-Zarqawi or Osama bin Laden on a poster, and they don't look cool, whereas Che Guevara looks like Jim Morrison. It's a good-looking, cool symbol for reflexive anti-Americanism.

Cybercast News Service: So these people really are useful idiots?

Humberto Fontova: Yes, but with the ignorance. I talk to young people and kids. The high school and college kids look at the image and probably think Che's a drummer for the Smashing Pumpkins. Slightly older ones, the Gen-Xers, think it's probably Bob Marley on the t-shirt. And many in my generation think of him as Jim Morrison of The Doors.

Cybercast News Service: You talk about some of these folks at Newsweek and Jon Lee Anderson and Richard Goodwin-can you explain how they've spread propaganda about Che Guevara?

Humberto Fontova: Anderson is the worst. His book, "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life" is more than 800 pages and considered by, again, all the major reviewers as the definitive book on Che. It's interesting because Anderson wrote it while living in Cuba, with the full cooperation of the Castro regime. The propaganda ministers of a totalitarian regime feed information to this guy; he puts it in his book; and then it's broadcast all over the world as an "authoritative" source. It boggles the mind.

Cybercast News Service: It would be like someone sitting in the office of Joseph Goebbels and taking dictation?

Humberto Fontova: As I say in the book, it's like, let us say that Hitler died, one of the assassination attempts against him succeeded, and then a so-called historian were to go to write Hitler's biography and were to use Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goering, and Martin Bormann as his sources. Would any sane person take that book seriously? But when it comes to the Cuban revolution, people don't look past that. There's something about the Cuban revolution that blinds people to reason.

Cybercast News Service: Is that intellectual blindness because liberals, in general, tend to look at issues based on emotion instead of reason - that, for instance, the communists "meant well" and wanted to help people and therefore they were good guys?

Humberto Fontova: Leftists are always judged on their intent, on their motives, rather than their results. But the intent and motives of the Cuban revolutionaries were not noble; they were Stalinists from the get-go. Che Guevara would sign his correspondence, before he even went to Cuba, as "Stalin II." The Cuban revolution did not veer off course. It was always led by Stalinists. Declassified Soviet documents now show that there were KGB agents in 1958 involved. Raul Castro, for instance, had KGB contacts from the mid-1950s. So, their intent was not noble. They were Stalinists from the get-go.

Cybercast News Service: And there were KGB or GRU agents training Guevara and others?

Humberto Fontova: Yes, the GRU was training the firing squads. In early 1959, when Che Guevara took over probably the most luxurious house in Cuba, that is where most of the meetings were held with Soviet agents. And, early on, these agents were Spanish communists who had fled the Spanish Civil War for the Soviet Union. They were the ones the Soviets sent to Cuba to train and hob-knob with their Cuban counterparts. They met in Che's house to plot the Stalinization of Cuba.

[Old Sarge]

And the sad thing is, they’re going to win.

[Dudoight]

From my research on Che several years ago, I knew he was a murderous savage with brains and an ego.

[exposing_the_left]

MSNBC Hardball with Chris Mathews [transcript]:

TAYLOR(spokesman for freerepublic.com): We have kids that wear Che Guevara shirts here in the United States.

MATTHEWS: Yes, but they're kind of cute at this point, aren't they? They're not about somebody out to get us now. I think there's a difference. I mean, that's kind of camp almost, isn't it?...is Che Guevara the symbol of hate in the United States anymore?

TAYLOR: Yes.

MATTHEWS: I don't think so. I mean, a lot of our kids wear them. I see kids wearing them all the time, even my kids wear them. It's like a Robert Marley T-shirt at this point.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11943459/

[ozzymandus]

Che was bad?? Duh?

The local librarian (a clueless leftist moron, of course) went out of her way to recommend the video “The Motorcycle Diaries”. She also refuses to order Ann Coulter’s books, while proudly displaying any anti-American dreck she can find.

[oakcon]

Speaking truth to idiots with no historical knowledge.
Have fun with that windmill.

[ken21]

i never understood why supposedly intelligent americans fall for communism.

many of my friends in college were mesmerized by cuba and che.

these students were always from well-to-do families.

[exposing_the_left]

i never understood why supposedly intelligent americans fall for communism.

TWO DEMOCRAT HOUSE COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN TIED TO COMMUNIST ORGANIZATIONS!

John Conyers chairs the House Judiciary Committee and Charlie Rangel, House Ways and Means!

On Oct 5, 2006, Democrat Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers Jr, *gave a speech* to the World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime organization.
http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3114&Itemid=243

Or, if the long url above breaks up:
http://tinyurl.com/ygx9w6

Before that he PUBLICLY ENDORSED THE MOVEMENT! See "Endorsers of the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Include...". (Conyers' endorsement appears immediately after Ward Churchill's)
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2

Or, if the long url above breaks up:
http://tinyurl.com/ef6z6

FACT! World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is a MAOIST- revolutionary movement initiated and controlled by the Revolutionary Communist Party!
(scroll down the list that appears to find the World Can't Wait organization --rwor.org is the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party) :
http://rwor.org/a/rwlink/links.htm

From David Horowitz's
FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

Profile: World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime (WCW)

*Revolutionary communist movement that stages protests against the Bush administration

*Organizes college and high-school students

*Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7213

From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party, parent org behind World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime, the same organization that democrat Chair of the House Judiciary Committee endorsed, then gave a SPEECH to!

The RCP "Mission Statement": "Create Public Opinion, Seize Power! We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning. And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle. ":
http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm

Here's the Revolutionary Communist Party (see link below) boasting of a FULL PAGE 'World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime' ad of theirs which actually appeared in the New York Slimes.
(either "rwor.org" or "revcom.us" takes you to the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party). The NY Times allowed a 2nd full-page RCP/WCW ad to be run several months later! In fact, they are, or have very recently, ran another large ad.
http://www.rwor.org/a/028/who-hated-bush-ad.htm

From the World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime "Youth and Students" page:

"The Students Are Stirring | Print | E-mail Good interview by Ron Jacobs interviewing a SDS organizer in North Carolina who is organizing for the March 20th walkouts.

A Campus Antiwar Movement Begins to Make Its Mark

[an article] By Ron Jacobs"
http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=3961&Itemid=5 or,

http://tinyurl.com/3yek4w

SDS = Students for a Democratic Society, a so-called "anti-war" (actually Maoist-revolutionary) organization which formed during the Vietnam era. They later split off into several other groups, one of which was the communist-revolutionary TERRORIST group The Weathermen.

Democrat Underground bloggers ("DUmmies") APPLAUD commie Conyers for signing the Revolutionary Communist Party call to "Drive Out the Bush Regime"

Read their outrageous comments here!

"Statement from [Democrat] Jim McDermott, U.S. Congressman from Washington To participants in the World Can't Wait actions today":
(rwor.org is the website of the REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST PARTY, and World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is their Maoist "anti-war" front group)
http://rwor.org/a/024/more-voices-from-november-2.htm

Again, from the RCP website, rwor.org:

"Tearing Up the U.S. Paper Tiger in Korea: How 300,000 Chinese Troops Snuck into Korea and Kicked the Ass of the U.S. Armed Forces" RW #1059, June 18, 2000:
http://rwor.org/a/v22/1052-059/1059/korea.htm

And here's some more evidence I dug-up on the commies in the demonRat party!

Is that DEMOCRAT House Ways and Means Chairman, Charlie Rangel, speaking at the podium of a Workers World Party / Troops Out Now rally???

But first, from the website of the Workers World Party, workers.org:

"On July 9 (1994), Workers World Party Chairperson Sam Marcy sent the following statement to Comrade Kim Jong Il, the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea and the State Funeral Committee of President Kim Il Sung.":

"Dear Comrade Kim Jong Il...

Workers World Party values our close, comradely relations with the Workers Party of Korea very highly. We are proud to have known Kim Il Sung as a great leader and a comrade in the international communist movement. ...

With comradely solidarity, Sam Marcy Chairperson, Workers World Party":

http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/sam94/1994html/s940721.htm

...this next item is also from the website of the Workers World Party, workers.org:

PHOTO!...Democrat representative and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee (also Korean war vet), Charlie Rangel, speaking at the podium of a PRO-NORTH KOREA Workers World Party / Troops Out Now rally in Harlem, New York, on March 19th, 2005, the 2nd anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. Also observe the photo to the immediate left of Rangel's. It is of commie and terrorist attorneys, Lynn Steward and Attorney General under LBJ, Ramsey Clark. Clark chairs the International Action Center (IAC) and served as counsel for Saddam Hussein at his war crimes trial:

See photos at this link:
http://www.workers.org/march19/index2.html

Here are a few not-so "anti-war" statements from the Workers World Party front, Troops Out Now. (clarifications within brackets were inserted by myself, a link to the original source is included at the end of the statements-LC) :

TROOPS OUT NOW: "It is time for the antiwar movement to acknowledge the absolute and unconditional right of the Iraqi people to resist the occupation of their country without passing judgment on their methods of resistance.[i.e., it's ok to saw the heads off of captured and bound hostages while they beg hopelessly for their lives, or to car bomb tens of freedom-seeking Iraqis at a time while they line up to join the police force or cast votes in the country's first ever free election. Even dragging school teachers out of a classroom and shooting them before the terrified eyes of their little students is cool with us. (this actually happened btw)-LC]...

their statement continues...

"Even the founding charter of the United Nations clearly affirms the right of an occupied people to resist by force of arms."

"We need to demand the immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. occupation troops from Iraq."[what good little communist doesn't want a Russian-backed Iran to gain control of Iraq?-LC]

"We must support politically, morally and organizationally members of the U.S. armed services who are resisting the war, moreover, we must encourage this resistance." "There must no longer be any hesitation on the part of our movement regarding our support of the struggle of the Palestinian people to free themselves from occupation.[in other words, blowing up innocent civilians at restaurants and shopping malls is just fine with us-LC] As a movement we have made a huge step forward in this regard. There must be no turning back."

"We must work to facilitate the widest unity between all of the forces that are seriously organizing against the war and occupation."

All of the above statements, minus my 'clarifications', can be found at this Troops Out Now web page:
http://www.troopsoutnow.org/statements/outnow.html

Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General under democrat prez LBJ seated with terrorist attorney Lynn Steward at a 2005 Workers World Party/Troops Out Now demonstration, the same in which current House Ways and Means Committee chairman, demonRat Charlie Rangel, spoke! Neither Hannity or O'Reilly has ever confronted Rangel with this.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Che Guevara, according to some accounts, was betrayed to the Bolivians by Castro. This involved an agreement between the Soviets and the U.S. over spheres of influence in South America and Eastern Europe. Guevara’s Bolivian adventure was a total disaster from day one and Castro believed Guevara had deviated away from the Fidelista line and was a rival.

The movie that Hollywood should make is a comedy about this clown committing every error possible in his Quixotic attempt to bring revolution to Bolivia.

[Frank_Discussion]

Humberto Fontova, the mild-manned alter ego of

****Captain Obvious!!****

[kitkat]

BUMP

[kcvl]

Ernesto “Che” Guevara dreamed of creating the “New Man” at any cost. During the Cuban missile crisis, he was in favor of a nuclear war because he believed that a better world could be built from the ashes, regardless of the cost in millions of lives. By adhering to his anti-American feelings and pro-Soviet stance, he achieved a role in history that stands for one failure after another, both in Cuba, as well as in all the other countries where he went to promote and disseminate Castro’s Revolution.

Ernesto “Che” Guevara had all the characteristics of a ruthless dictator and opponent of freedom. He believed that the end justifies the means, and he fanatically adhered to this gospel. This “idealized icon” is the one who, as a modern day Grand Inquisitor, eliminated many of his foes with a single pistol shot to the back of their heads. And he is also the same one who authored these enhancing words printed in the identity booklets of young Cuban soldiers sent to fight in Angola: “Blind hate against the enemy creates a forceful impulse that cracks the boundaries of natural human limitations, transforming the soldier in an effective, selective and cold killing machine. A people without hate cannot triumph against the adversary.”

THE REAL CHE GUEVARA

“Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any enemy that falls in my hands! My nostrils dilate

while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for

the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!”

“Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his

natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine. This is

what our soldiers must become … “ Che Guevara

180 DOCUMENTED VICTIMS OF CHÉ GUEVARA IN CUBA: 1957 TO 1959

From: Armando M. Lago, Ph.D., Cuba. The Human Cost of Social Revolutions, unedited

Manuscript pending publication. Information provided by the TRUTH RECOVERY ARCHIVE ON CUBA

an undertaking of the FREE SOCIETY PROJECT, INC.

The exact number of Che’s Cuban victims has not been verified, but include people he personally

executed and those put to death under his orders. Che’s biographers consistently report that he sent

thousands to the firing squad. Over 4,000 deaths are documented to have taken place in Cuba, mostly

firing squad execution, in the first three years after Fidel Castro’s takeover (1959-1962). Che Guevara

was one of the regime’s chief executioners during this period and is said to have acknowledged ordering

“several thousand” executions. All took place without affording the victims fair trials and due process of law.

http://tinyurl.com/yuhop5

[kcvl]

How the media lies for Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, part II

Gerard Jackson
BrookesNews.Com
Monday 20 June 2005

Mr. San Martin who was a reluctant guest in early days of Castro’s Gulag. Recounted that on one occasion Guevara’s thugs dragged a 14-year-old boy out his cell and into the prison court yard where the heroic Guevara was waiting for him. He bellowed at the boy to kneel in front of him.

Showing vastly more courage than most journalists are capable of, the lad eye-balled Guevara and shouted in his face: “If you’re going to kill me you’ll have to do it while I’m standing! Men die standing!” Guevara then put his pistol to the boy’s head and blew out his brains.

http://tinyurl.com/ywlo5j

Not satisfied with simply murdering these people, he had their relatives dragged in front of the mangled corpses just to make sure they got the right revolutionary message. And this is the sadistic butcher that Robert Redford worships. Well, that’s Hollywood for you.

[Brad from Tennessee]

In an interview of Humberto Fontova the author says reading Guevara’s published writings took a lot of effort. He gives a quote from one of Che’s political essays:

“The past makes itself felt not only in the individual consciousness – in which the residue of an education systematically oriented toward isolating the individual still weighs heavily – but also through the very character of this transition period in which commodity relations still persist, although this is still a subjective aspiration, not yet systematized.”

Gibberish.

[Ron in Acreage]

btt

[I still care]

This guy was on Hannity a few weeks ago. Colmes said to him, if this was what Che was really like, why are we just hearing about it now?

The author said, we’ve been telling you since the 60’s Alan. The MSM just wasn’t listening.

[PhilDragoo]

Felix Rodriguez (Maximo Gomez) caught up with Ernesto Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967.

Commandante Commie, meet Commander Karma--now, die.

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[fieldmarshaldj]

*BUMP*

Evil has a face.