Ernesto Che Guevara. Justice has never been better served.

That book is hard to get. Minimal availability. Going for $30 on used book websites. One guy says the book is mostly fantasy.

Small world. My father in law was killed at the firing squad by orders of Che Guevara. And by an islamic terrorist attack in Panama, a cousin was killed in 1994.

Thanks for all replies.

I've got "Congo Mercenary" in paperback, but not here so I don't have the publishing info. It has quite a lot on the lake battles with Che. Hoare was very impressed with the CIA/Cuban "air force". After using Dakotas etc for so long, the first C-130 he saw land blew him away!

Fantasy? I doubt it. I read it closer to the time I was an active duty specops officer, and I belived it all. I mean, it's historical record: he recruited officers and soldiers, trained them, got vehicles and moved his troops in columns and rescued the missionaries and aid workers all across Congo and killed countless terrorist "simbas".

The mainstream media never liked to bring it up though, because the CIA and mercenaries were VERY effective, while the UN and European govts were mainly impotent dolts.

Very comparable to the experience of the South African mercenary company "Executive Outcomes" in Sierra Leone in the mid 1990s: the globalists HATE it when private mercenary outfits are so effective. The UN and the RSA had EO thrown out of SL, and SL slipped back into horror. IOW, the UN prefers globalist (non) "control" and resultant horror to private military success, in the Congo in 65 or SL in 95.

That distaste is reflected in the elite media's treatment. The "fantasy" comment you spoke of very likely came from a leftist Che worshipper who could not believe that a bunch of mercs whipped Che's commie butt out of Africa.

Si, tambien, y mas grande:

As he had done during the Cuban revolution, El Che carried a US M2 carbine during his efforts in Bolivia. It had been hit by rifle fire when the US trained and led Bolivian Rangers opened up on him, and the *professional guerrillo* had lost the magazine to the spare handgun he carried....

But the real secret in the victory of the American 8th Special Forces Group and those who ran Guevera into the ground has never fully been told. I wonder if it's true, as has been said, that Guevera had turned to the Bolivian coca to help cope with his asthma and altitude sickness and was a wasted and wrecked cocaine addict when he was killed. He looks it.

I tried to flag Luis "Gonzo" Gonzales. Did he get banned?

To pull it all together:

Castro, the Carribean, and Terrorism

The Web of Terror

-All Terror, All the Time-- FR's links to NBC Warfare, Terror, and More...--

Unresolved Questions- the Panama canal, good, bad, or a waiting disaster?--thread II

(C)old War Ghost- Cubans in Angola