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Posted on 10/08/2007 7:43:34 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
LEFTIST leaders and sympathisers marked the 40th anniversary of the death of revolutionary icon Ernesto Che Guevara today in Cuba, where he is buried, and Bolivia, where he was killed in 1967.
Cuba's Acting President, Raul Castro, led the main event under a giant bronze statue of the guerrilla fighter in the town of Santa Clara, some 300 kilometres (186 miles) east of Havana.
Convalescing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, 81, was absent, but a homage he penned was read in public. The Argentine-born doctor-turned-guerrilla was "a flower torn up prematurely by the stem. I bow my head to pay tribute - with respect and gratitude - to the exceptional warrior," Castro wrote.
Guevara's Argentine widow Aleida March, 71, attended the event, along with his four children Aleida, Camilo, Celia and Ernesto. Guevara had a daughter with his first wife, a Peruvian revolutionary, both of whom are dead.
Loudspeakers also blared an October 3, 1965 recording of Castro reading a farewell letter that Guevara wrote as he prepared to join the guerrilla war in the Congo.
Guevara's youngest son, Ernesto, honoured his father by roaring by on a bright red motorcycle along with 37 members of Cuba's Harley-Davidson motorcycle club.
The drive-by memorialised Guevara's ride across Latin America in the early 1950s on his Norton 250, immortalised in the book - recently turned into a movie - The Motorcycle Diaries.
Guevara fought a key battle in Santa Clara in 1958 during the Cuban revolution. In 1997 Castro buried Guevara's remains in this town after his bones were discovered in Vallegrande, Bolivia, where soldiers executed him after he was captured in 1967 as he tried to spread Marxist revolution to South America
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A guy wrote a book on Che said that Castro sent him to Bolivia to get killed.
can someone explain to me why the lefties like this guy?
Because he killed good, innocent people. That’s always a plus in their book.
can someone explain to me why the lefties like this guy?
because he is dead and they are not...yet.
Wikepedia:
“He (Guevara)was appointed commander of the La Cabana Fortress prison . . .he oversaw the trial and execution of many people, among whom were former Batista regime officials and members of the “Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities” (a unit of the secret police known by its Spanish acronym BRAC). Jose Vilasuso, an attorney who worked under Guevara at La Cabana preparing indictments, said that these were lawless proceedings where ‘the facts were judged without any consideration to general juridical principles’ and the findings were pre-determined by Guevara.[29][30] It is estimated that between 156 and 550 people were executed on Guevara’s extra-judicial orders during this time.[31]
He’s a beneficiary of the “Died Young” syndrome.
If he was a 70 year old aging Commie no one would care.
Ahhhhhhh, cause they’re LEFTIES ???
His mystique. “I would rather die on feet than live on my knees.” He is a symbol to those who believe that murder, torture and imprisonment are justified in a moral cause.
Of course, like any Communist or fascist (usually the same), they justify all forms of bad behavior because ... they know what is best for us!
Beware of Hillary. She would be Che (or She?) is she could get away it.
Beware of Hillary. She would be Che (or She?) is she could get away it.
Agree, agree, agree.
LOL!!!
Oh. I forgot about him.
YOU WIN! LOL
Who the hell can afford a Harley in a country where a f****** doctor makes $20 a month?
The coddled "revolutionary" elite, that's who. The bloodsuckers who live the Gucci life while lecturing to the starving masses about the virtues of socialism. What are these parasites going to do, where will they go, when the Castros are finally dead and gone?
The Cuban CIA agent who ran the operation that captured Guevara received the information on Guevara’s whereabouts from the Bolivian Communist Party, who received the information from Havana. This is in Humberto Fontova’s excellent book on Che Guevara.
The bloodsuckers who live the Gucci life while lecturing to the starving masses about the virtues of socialism.
Why did you have to bring up Al Gore?
A total leftist fraud in every conceivable way.
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