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People wearing Che Tee shirts while staring into their Galaxy S8. :shock:
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.”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.
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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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.
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.
[h=3]Hunting Che: How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the ...[/h]https://warstudiespublications.wordpress.com/.../hunting-che-how-a-u-s-special-forces...
Oct 3, 2013 - ... book revolves around the hunt for the iconic Argentine revolutionary, Ernesto “Che”Guevara 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.
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.
From your own link.
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.
Who said it wasn't factual?
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.
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.
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 was hunted down and killed as the book describes.
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.‘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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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.