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The real Che Guevara

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Che has becomes a symbol of everything he detested, turned into a brand name. For the left he is a symbol of their cause. He was the main executioner of the Castroit regime, he did not hesitate in supporting the nuclear confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union without given a damn that such action sealed the annihilation of the Cuban people, a psychopathic thug. But still the left praise him, spreading outright lies in order to perpetuate his myth.
 
Che Guevera's Forgotten Victims
Che Guevara's Forgotten Victims

*The following is an abridged version of "The Forgotten Victims of Che Guevara, 2nd edition," by Maria C. Werlau (soon available in Amazon in English and Spanish).
By Maria C Werlau
October 7, 2017

Ernesto Guevara, better known as “Che,” is the ultimate poster boy of “revolutionary chic,” a quintessential icon of mass culture. Ironically, most devotees of the Che cult know little, if anything, about him –what he stood for, what he did, and the consequences of his violent quest. Yet, there is an irreconcilable dark truth behind the carefully-constructed myth of Che Guevara. A cursory look at the extensive bibliography on Che, including his own writings, or a glance at the list of his known victims makes that patently clear.

Guevara's face adorns t-shirts of many opponents of capital punishment, but the flesh and blood "Che" exhibited a deep contempt for the sanctity of human life. He knew from his communist self-education that terror would be a necessary component of revolutionary order. Besides, he had come prepared for the task of executioner; in the Sierra Maestra had been forged as a serial killer. Of the 25 executions by the Rebel Army during the fight against Batista that Cuba Archive has documented, at least 6 were by the hand of Che or ordered by him. Later, from day one of the new revolutionary government, January 1, 1959, he and the Castro brothers set out to take control in Cuba by sheer terror through mass killings.

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The death penalty was practically abolished in Cuba, as article 25 of the 1940 Constitution forbade its application except in cases of military treason. But the new Council of Revolutionary Ministers modified the constitution, ignoring the clauses on its amendment, and passed laws on January 10 and February 10 of 1959 that subordinated –and essentially abolished– the constitution, granting the death penalty a vestige of legality and allowed its retroactive application.
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At the beginning of 1959, Fidel Castro put Che in charge of La Cabaña prison. Che became prosecutor at La Cabaña fortress in Havana, where he took his task with determination presiding over hundreds of executions, in proceedings that his sympathetic biographer Jon Lee Anderson notes “were carried out without respect for due process.” He became what he preached, “a cold-blooded killing machine.”
 
he was one of Time magazines (you know Time, found by Henry Luce, that paragon of conservatism) as one its 100 most important people of the 2oth century.

Che was a physician who gave up his profession to fight tyranny. He allied with the soviet ideology because the soviets allied with HIM... the enemy of my enemy is my ally, as the saying goes. The U.S. was behind the overthrow of the democratically elected Arbenz in Guatemala in the interest of United Fruit who had substantial capital investments in Central America. If Guevara developed a loathing for capitalism, he had good cause.

He joined Castro only after the U.S. refused to assist Castro in putting in a legitimate government in Cuba. It was not in the U.S. interests to have a democratic government in Cuba... United Fruit was THERE too, of course. To say that he was brutal... all warriors are. Not all need be warriors though. it is the determination of what obliges war that qualifies the warrior:

Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

sounds right to me. Che eventually abandoned stalinist ideology for a more 'humanist' version of socialism. Not that it mattered. The CIA hired a traitor to the Cuban revolution to assassinate him.

and then things got all better! Cuba was free! free! free!

geo.

Speaking of the United Fruit Company, John Foster Dulles was the CEO and his brother who did legal work and sat on the board was the head of the CIA. The CIA was responsible for the Bay Of Pigs Invasion and the overthrow in Guatemala. Connect the dots.
 
Speaking of the United Fruit Company, John Foster Dulles was the CEO and his brother who did legal work and sat on the board was the head of the CIA. The CIA was responsible for the Bay Of Pigs Invasion and the overthrow in Guatemala. Connect the dots.

So what?
 
he was one of Time magazines (you know Time, found by Henry Luce, that paragon of conservatism) as one its 100 most important people of the 2oth century.

Che was a physician who gave up his profession to fight tyranny. He allied with the soviet ideology because the soviets allied with HIM... the enemy of my enemy is my ally, as the saying goes. The U.S. was behind the overthrow of the democratically elected Arbenz in Guatemala in the interest of United Fruit who had substantial capital investments in Central America. If Guevara developed a loathing for capitalism, he had good cause.

He joined Castro only after the U.S. refused to assist Castro in putting in a legitimate government in Cuba. It was not in the U.S. interests to have a democratic government in Cuba... United Fruit was THERE too, of course. To say that he was brutal... all warriors are. Not all need be warriors though. it is the determination of what obliges war that qualifies the warrior:

Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

sounds right to me. Che eventually abandoned stalinist ideology for a more 'humanist' version of socialism. Not that it mattered. The CIA hired a traitor to the Cuban revolution to assassinate him.

and then things got all better! Cuba was free! free! free!

geo.

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Oct 3, 2013 - ... book revolves around the hunt for the iconic Argentine revolutionary, Ernesto “CheGuevara in the Bolivian highlands in 1967. Specifically, this work focuses on the role that the U.S. military (and intelligence operatives) played in aiding the Bolivian government and security forces in tracking down Che.
 
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Oct 3, 2013 - ... book revolves around the hunt for the iconic Argentine revolutionary, Ernesto “CheGuevara in the Bolivian highlands in 1967. Specifically, this work focuses on the role that the U.S. military (and intelligence operatives) played in aiding the Bolivian government and security forces in tracking down Che.

From your own link.

Although Maurer and Weiss researched exhaustively, it must be stressed that this should not be regarded as a standard academic book. As previously mentioned, it reads more like a spy-action novel.
 
Yes, and . . . ? Che was hunted down and killed in Bolivia.

Yes that is common knowledge. What does that have to with what Geo and I said. I was pointing out that your link was a book that is not really factual in it's content.
 
Yes that is common knowledge. What does that have to with what Geo and I said. I was pointing out that your link was a book that is not really factual in it's content.

Except your claim proved nothing of the sort.....

Merely that the book wasn't as dry and slow paced as a traditional academic source. Considering that it's a book about hunting down a terrorist, that's unsurprising.
 
Who said it wasn't factual?

The author gets his sources from US Intelligence agencies, the US military, US policymakers along with Bolivian policy makers. Nothing from the rebels. It's going to be very biased. In fact Che doesn't even come into the book till the very end and his appearance is brief. The book is based on him yet he is nowhere throughout the book.
The sporadic discussions of Che’s life throughout the book add to his omnipresence, and the iconic guerrilla only makes a grand entrance briefly towards the end of the book, when he’s captured.

One thing I've learned over the years is there is the American version of history and the real version of history.
 
The author gets his sources from US Intelligence agencies, the US military, US policymakers along with Bolivian policy makers. Nothing from the rebels. It's going to be very biased. In fact Che doesn't even come into the book till the very end and his appearance is brief. The book is based on him yet he is nowhere throughout the book.


One thing I've learned over the years is there is the American version of history and the real version of history.

Che was hunted down and killed as the book describes.
 
Che was hunted down and killed as the book describes.
Cuba was a nation of 6.5 million in 1959. Within three months in power Castro and Che had shamed the Nazi prewar incarceration and murder rate. Cuban journalist Luis Ortega who knew Che as early as 1954 writes in his book "Yo Soy El Che!" that Guevara sent 1,897 men to the firing squad. In his book "Che Guevara: A Biography," Daniel James writes that Che himself admitted to ordering “several thousand” executions during the first few years of the Castroit regime. This was a very good reason to hunted him down and killed him.
 
Che, the cold-blooded murderer who executed thousands without trial, and claimed that judicial evidence was an “unnecessary bourgeois detail”, signed death warrants for hundreds of men. By the way his office in La Cabaña had a window which allows him to watch the executions. What a despicable character he was.
 
In April 1967, speaking from experience, he summed up his homicidal idea of justice in his “Message to the Tricontinental”: “hatred is an element of struggle; relentless hatred of the enemy that impels us over and beyond the natural limitations of man and transforms us into effective, violent, selective, and cold killing machines. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy.” This use of hatred to encourage the dehumanization of one’s enemy is but another manifestation of the doctrine found throughout the centuries to justify mass murder and torture.
 
‘It’s over’: How I captured Che Guevara
https://www.ft.com/content/63632118-a891-11e7-ab55-27219df83c97

Fifty years on, Gary Prado Salmón recalls the guerrilla leader’s final hours in Bolivia

OCTOBER 6, 2017 Clare Hargreaves

On October 8 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was captured in Bolivia. A key player in the 1959 Cuban revolution, Guevara had travelled to the country in the hope of turning it into one of the “many Vietnams” he had called for in his 1966 “Message to the Tricontinental”. Accounts of the events surrounding Guevara’s death have varied, and some details remain contested. “On October 8 my soldiers were controlling the route out of the Yuro ravine, an area that was covered with thick underbrush, rocks and trees. At around one o’clock they shouted that they had two prisoners. I ran 20 metres uphill to see them and asked one of the captives to identify himself. ‘Che Guevara,’ he said. The other was ‘Willy’ [Simeón Cuba Sarabia, another guerrilla].

There were confusing rumors about three or four possible ‘Che Guevaras’ being in the region at that time, so it was essential to check his identity. I asked Che to show me his right hand because, according to the information I had, he had a scar on the back of it. The scar was indeed there. He didn’t look much like the photographs. He presented a pitiful figure, dirty, smelly and run-down. He’d been on the run for months. His hair was long, messy and matted, and his beard bushy. Over his uniform he was wearing a blue jacket with no buttons. His black beret was filthy. He had no shoes, just scraps of animal skins on his feet. He was wearing odd socks, one blue, one red. He looked like those homeless people you see begging in the cities pushing a supermarket trolley. I noticed that he was carefully carrying an aluminium pan with six eggs in it — it showed he’d had contact with the locals.

Che had been wounded in his right calf when trying to escape capture by running down the ravine. I had placed a machine gun to cover the area, plus a 60mm mortar to support it. My soldiers had opened fire on Che, hit him in the calf, made a hole in his beret and broken the M2 carbine he was carrying.
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Capitan Gary Prado, commander of the battalion that capture Che Guevara, in his book “La Guerrilla Inmolada”, says that when Che was surrounded by the patrol, he came out from the brush and said ‘Do not shoot! I am Che’, dropped his gun and surrendered. Prado remembers that Che was depressed, completely demoralized. He was seeing the end. Che was slightly wounded in the lower calf, and walked helped by my soldiers. I confiscated everything he had in his pockets and rucksack, including some money and his diaries. Che was totally resigned and offered no resistance. As we walked, Che said to me: ‘I’m more use to you alive than dead.’ Che was clearly worried about what was going to happen to him. I told him that a military court would judge him as they did with Régis Debray and Ciro Bustos in Santa Cruz.
 
Jon Lee Anderson wrote about Che Guevara capture in his biography ‘Che Guevara a revolutionary Life’, p.733: “When they were a few feet away, a short, sturdy highland Indian named Sergeant Bernardino Huanca, broke through the brush and pointed his gun at them. He claimed later that Che told him: ‘Do not shoot! I am Che Guevara and worth more to you alive than dead’.”
 
Marcos Bravo, prominent leader of the July 26 Movement, fought against the dictatorship of Batista during the decade of the 50 and was jailed under this regime. Later on he opposed the communist regime and was jailed again by Fidel Castro. Bravo's work is the result of several years of research, scrutiny and reflections. In his book “La otra cara del Che. Ernesto Guevara, un sepulcro blanqueado” (The other face of Che. Ernesto Guevara, a whited sepulchre), he wrote: “The wound in the leg was a slight scratch that it did not prevent him from walking. At the moment of surrender he said ‘Don’t shoot, I’m Che Guevara’.”
 
Dariel Alarcon (Benigno), joint Guevara in the Sierra Maestra and accompanied him in Congo and Bolivia, who indeed fought to his last bullet in Bolivia, escaped back to Cuba, defected and lived exile in France until his death, said that Che always stressed, “Never surrender, never!” He drilled it into us almost every day of the guerrilla campaign. “Save your last bullet for yourself.”

Che didn’t fight until the last bullet, as he demanded from his subordinates, who fulfilled the order and gave their lives in pursuit of an impossible and foreign illusion. What a despicable man he was.
 
Che failed miserable in the Congo and Bolivia, after being marginalized by Fidel Castro. Before, during and after the Castroit regime grab power in Cuba, he customarily violated the doctors Hippocratic Oath torturing and executing prisoners. He send homosexual to a force labor camp, failed as an economist at the head of the National Bank, as Minister of Industry presiding over the failure of industrialization and as a diplomat and politician in his relations with the Chinese, Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. An Argentinean, son of a well to do family and a favorite of his mother, start out a revolution in the Bolivia countryside, he and his men got lost, suffer starvation and at the end were track down by the Bolivian army, made prisoner and executed. For a guy that practically failed at everything, it is hard to understand how this loser became an icon of popular culture and youth rebellion.
 
Che failed miserable in the Congo and Bolivia, after being marginalized by Fidel Castro. Before, during and after the Castroit regime grab power in Cuba, he customarily violated the doctors Hippocratic Oath torturing and executing prisoners. He send homosexual to a force labor camp, failed as an economist at the head of the National Bank, as Minister of Industry presiding over the failure of industrialization and as a diplomat and politician in his relations with the Chinese, Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. An Argentinean, son of a well to do family and a favorite of his mother, start out a revolution in the Bolivia countryside, he and his men got lost, suffer starvation and at the end were track down by the Bolivian army, made prisoner and executed. For a guy that practically failed at everything, it is hard to understand how this loser became an icon of popular culture and youth rebellion.

He is a hero of Antifa, go figure they throw feces and assault journalist.
 
In death, Che is a capitalist icon. He is to t-shirts what that kitten hanging from a clothes line was to motivational posters. I always ask a person wearing a Che T shirt, if they are embarrassed, since he was really a Murdering Sociopath. You should see the blank stares I get. Yep noting like the three S's treatment, Shoot, Shovel, and shut up.

If you're going to wear a T-shirt with someone's image on it, it seems like you should know more about the real person whose image you're sporting and therefore sponsoring, like say Che Guevara.
 
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