The real Che Guevara

Slingshot Bob · Apr 24, 2018

Sandokan said:
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.

It is trendy, edgy and kewl for naïve millennials.

Sandokan · May 10, 2018

Slingshot Bob said:
It is trendy, edgy and kewl for naïve millennials.

I couldn’t say it better myself.

Sandokan · May 10, 2018

‘Che Guevara Was a Sweet Husband and Daddy' (According to Britain’s The Guardian)
https://townhall.com/columnists/hum...y-according-to-britains-the-guardian-n2428156

Humberto Fontova |
Posted: Dec 30, 2017

“I’m the eldest of Che’s four children with my mother. Papi was known around the world as the Argentine revolutionary, a guerrilla leader and major figure of the Cuban revolution, but we were just a normal family. I never felt special as his daughter. Where I did feel special was as the child of a couple who loved each other dearly.” (Aleida Guevara in The Guardian.)

Awww….You can almost hear Hollywood sniffling en masse.

Can you imagine a “respectable” newspaper giving Heinrich Himmler’s daughter a platform to sniffle over her darling papa’s domestic habits? Well, despite the half century of pinko hogwash, the only actual success in Che Guevara’s miserable life came as mass-executioner of the unarmed and helpless, much like Himmler’s.
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Leftists do love to show the cute, cuddly side of mass murdering. They loves to create their own narrative and that means having some very peculiar and despicable heroes like Che Guevara.

SDET · May 10, 2018

Sandokan said:
Leftists do love to show the cute, cuddly side of mass murdering. They loves to create their own narrative and that means having some very peculiar and despicable heroes like Che Guevara.

There's essentially nothing else to see in Santa Clara except the Ernesto Guevara memorial. I refuse to use the term "Che"; it's Red propaganda using the term "Che" which means friend or buddy. Other than wanting to see a generic Cuban city, why is there an abundance of tourist Bed and Breakfasts in Santa Clara? I just don't get it.

Sandokan · Jun 1, 2018

Of course many blood-thirsty, murdering thugs are loved and admired by their children. Aleida Guevara would never acept that her father was a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate no matter what the evidence is. Che even confessed his love of killing and torturing his victims.

Sandokan · Jun 30, 2018

Progressives’ idolization of Che is a reflection of what they would do to those that don’t conform to their point of view. The worship of Che by the radical left speaks volumes of their true agenda. Che is dead, R.I.P (rest in pain).

SDET · Jun 30, 2018

Sandokan said:
Progressives’ idolization of Che is a reflection of what they would do to those that don’t conform to their point of view. The worship of Che by the radical left speaks volumes of their true agenda. Che is dead, R.I.P (rest in pain).

Yup. Cuba is one big "safe space" with the CDR making sure no one get "offended".

Sandokan · Jul 10, 2018

SDET said:
Yup. Cuba is one big "safe space" with the CDR making sure no one get "offended".

Fidel Castro's regime has many similarities to that of Hitler. Castro’s CDRs (Committees for the Defense of the Revolution), was copied from Hitler’s blockwarts (block wardens). According to Castro it is “a collective system of revolutionary vigilance”, which controls the neighborhood blocks, reporting on them regularly, checking up on the behavior of their residents. What an Orwellian regime.

Sandokan · Jul 16, 2018

‘Che’ Guevara, The Faded Myth
‘Che’ Guevara, The Faded Myth – Translating Cuba

January 14, 2018 14ymedio, Yoani Sanchez

It does not matter if his face continues to be reproduced on countless T-shirts, flags or ashtrays all over the planet, because the more it becomes known what kind of person he really was, the more his myth fades. (14ymedio)

14ymedio, Yoani Sanchez, Havana, 14 January 2018 — Almost four decades ago, when I was learning the alphabet, I had to say my first political slogan, the same one repeated every morning by thousands of Cuban schoolchildren: “Pioneers for communism, we will be like Che.” The only thing that has changed is that, today, the figure of the guerrilla is sharply contested in many parts of the world, but not in Cuba.
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Lefties have been celebrating Che Guevara as a model of a revolutionary for over five decades. Several movies, musicals, plays, many books and articles show him as an icon, a hero and freedom fighter against capitalism, creating a romantic image that motivate young people around the world.

A movie, a few books and articles depict him as he really was, a despicable human being. He left a lot of testimony on his writings, diaries, speeches and letters of his cruelties and sadistic behavior. His lack of ethics, morality and racism becomes evident in his writings. Due to the fact that the truth about him is becoming increasingly known, his myth is fading.

Sandokan · Jul 31, 2018

According to Ciro Bustos, Che’s right-hand man in the guerilla struggle in Argentina and Bolivia, in his book “Che Wants to See You”, Guevara was a “synthesis of pathological sadism and fundamentalist extremism.” The French writer Regis Debray, author of "Revolution in the revolution", wrote about the Che that: "He was adept of the totalitarianism up to the last body hair.” Che impulsive cruel behavior inflicted physical and psychological pain on others to assert his power. He literally interpreted the Marxism doctrine and engaged in arm struggle to enforce it.

Sandokan · Aug 13, 2018

Ernest Hemingway, a resident in Havana at that time, invited George Plimpton, editor of the Paris Review, to witness the shooting of prisoners at La Cabaña prison, where Che was in charge, condemned without due process. Because of it, Plimpton later refused to publish Guevara's memoir, The Motorcycle Diaries. Che was Fidel Castro’s chief executioner, a mass-murderer, a sadistic madman living out fantasies under the veil of ideology that was romanticized by the idea and grandeur of violent uprising and revolution and didn't care about humane ethics or values.

Sandokan · Sep 4, 2018

“The Killing Machine: Che Guevara, from Communist Firebrand to Capitalist Brand,” by Alvaro Vargas Llosa. According to Vargas Llosa “Che Guevara, who did so much (or was it so little?) to destroy capitalism, is now a quintessential capitalist brand.” All types of merchandise bearing Che face or name are marketed by big corporations and small businesses.

In death, Che is a capitalist icon. He is to t-shirts what that kitten hanging from a clothes line was to motivational posters. Those who buy a Che shirt what are you endorsing? Capitalism, one of the things Che was fighting against. By plastering his face on every piece of merchandise imaginable you have completely gone against his communist beliefs. Wearing Che T-shirts is a tacit acknowledgement of capitalism's triumph over socialism.

Sandokan · Oct 4, 2018

In early 1959, in consultation with agents from the Soviet Secret Police, Guevara, along with other top Cuban government officials, created a state security apparatus known as G-2. Guevara himself became the head of G-6, another agency in charge of ideological indoctrination of the military.

Guevara strongly supported Law 647, which specified that, “The Minister of Labor can take control of any union, dismiss officials and appoint others” when he deems it necessary.” So much for the dominant role of the “working class” under the Castroit tyrannical regime.

Sandokan · Oct 22, 2018

Thanks to Che's own writings, speeches, actions and testimonial of his friends and family, it is well know how dishonest many in the left are about him. His worshipers aren’t rebels or peace activists, they are tools promoting the harmful legacy of collectivism of communism and the widespread destruction it has brought all over the world.

Sandokan · Nov 10, 2018

Those who idolize him often ignore his many faults, such as his racism. Che, in his Congo Diary, described Kabila as a lazy, hard-drinking, womanizing, opportunist and his ragtag forces as superstitious, incapable of military discipline and too proud to listen to instructions.

Sandokan · Dec 5, 2018

Che Guevara, who did so much to destroy capitalism, is now a quintessential capitalist brand. His image decorate baseball caps, bandannas, tank tops, shirts, jeans, baby clothes, backpacks, wallets, watches, mugs, key chains, lighters, etc., and of course t-shirts with the photograph taken by Alberto Korda. Che Guevara, from Communist Firebrand to Capitalist Brand.

Sandokan · Dec 19, 2018

Guevara, in reality, belongs to that species of human vermin who attach themselves to a charismatic villain — in Che’s case, Fidel Castro; in Heinrich Himmler’s case, Adolf Hitler; in Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s case, Osama bin Laden — and enact their murderous agendas until the countervailing forces of history end their pathetic existences. - Mark Goldblatt, Revenge of Che, National Review on line.

What can been more ineffectual than the guy who wears a Che T-shirt and doesn’t know anything about him.

Sandokan · Jan 13, 2019

The Truth About Che Guevara
The Truth About Che Guevara | World Affairs Journal

Michael J. Totten
7 February 2014

Che Guevara has the most effective public relations department on earth. The Argentine guerrilla and modern Cuba’s co-founding father has been fashioned into a hipster icon, a counter-cultural hero, an anti-establishment rebel, and a champion of the poor. As James Callaghan once put it, “A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”

The truth about Che now has its boots on. He helped free Cubans from the repressive Batista regime, only to enslave them in a totalitarian police state worst than the last. He was Fidel Castro’s chief executioner, a mass-murderer who in theory could have commanded any number of Latin American death squads, from Peru’s Shining Pathon the political left to Guatemala’s White Hand on the right.

“Just as Jacobin Paris had Louis Antoine de Saint-Just,” wrote French historian Pascal Fontaine, “revolutionary Havana had Che Guevara, a Latin American version of Nechaev, the nineteenth century nihilist terrorist who inspired Dostoevsky’s The Devils. As Guevara wrote to a friend in 1957, ‘My ideological training means that I am one of those people who believe that the solution to the world’s problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.’…He was a great admirer of the Cultural Revolution [in China]. According to Regis Debray, ‘It was he and not Fidel who in 1960 invented Cuba’s first corrective work camp,’ or what the Americans would call a slave labor camp and the Russians called the gulag.”
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“So yeah, everyone 'loves' him. It’s required by law. Woe to those who disobey State Security.” Curzio Malaparte in his legendary work The Skin, gave this definition of a totalitarian State: “It’s a State in which everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.”

Sandokan · Jan 29, 2019

“Today La Cabaña is a tourist attraction. You can see the skyline of restored Old Havana across the harbor. The fort itself is well-preserved and aesthetically pleasing. Yet it lies by omission just like the museum at Che’s memorial.” Che was known as the "butcher of la Cabaña", the fortress at the entrance of the Port of Havana where he was in charge of the executions.

In an appearance on TV, February 1959, Che said that “at La Cabaña all executions are carried out under my express orders.” There he presided over hundreds of executions in summary trials.

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La Cabaña Castle, Photo by Juan Carlos Ferro Duque, 2012.

Sandokan · Feb 13, 2019

Guy Sorman, a French philosopher and economist, has revealed the real Che Guevara, not “the fictional puppet that has replaced reality”, that the world's leftists keep celebrating and selling as the ultimate champion of a people's revolution.

For the useful tools out there that repeats the same thing over and over like a trained Cacatua; the image of Che is a Communist propaganda tool used to lure you in, just as drugs. Pointing other's mistakes doesn't make you better. He was a freaking arrogant foreigner who went to other people's countries to meddle in their business and kill them.

Sandokan · Feb 28, 2019

Michael J. Totten wrote:

Today La Cabaña is a tourist attraction. You can see the skyline of restored Old Havana across the harbor. The fort itself is well-preserved and aesthetically pleasing. Yet it lies by omission just like the museum at Che’s memorial.

I saw and heard no mention there about the thousands of people the regime killed even though so many were killed on one of its walls. I couldn’t even figure out which wall. It’s unmarked. The blood and gore are long gone.

Traditionally the progressives have hail despots as folk heroes, without having to live under their rule. In reality very few that have lived under Che’s influence in Cuba would have any doubt of his evil character. The evil of thousands of killings by fire squads during the reign of terror under Che Guevara cannot be justify by comparing it to the evils of the previous administration. Che was a cool killing machine whose history speaks for itself.

Sandokan · Mar 17, 2019

Michael J. Totten wrote:

One day—perhaps not soon, but someday—that is going to change. The myth of the kind and benevolent and compassionate Che will eventually slide into oblivion because a democratic government in Havana will not lie, by either omission or commission, about the man who co-founded Cuba’s final dictatorship. When that day arrives, tourists who visit will finally learn something real.

Che in his own words, recounting the execution of Eutimio Guerra for passing information to the enemy: “I ended the problem giving him a shot with a 32 (caliber) pistol in the right side of the brain, with exit orifice in the right temporal. He gasped for a little while and was dead. Upon proceeding to remove his belongings I couldn’t get off the watch tied by a chain to his belt, and then he told me in a steady voice farther away than fear: “Yank it off, boy, what does it matter…. I did so and his possessions were now mine.” - Jon Lee Anderson, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life. The world is better without him around, and would have been much better if he had been taken out sooner.

Masterhawk · Apr 2, 2019

If Che Guevara was one of the kind of communists who believed in establishing a socialist state in the hopes that it will gradually turn into communism, we can pretty much discredit him right off the bat.

The truth of the matter is that several countries tried this approach and not a single one achieved communism. In addition to this, their economic growth was inferior to their capitalist counterparts. And that's not even mentioning the fact that they end up curbing freedom of expression.

Sandokan · Apr 7, 2019

Fifty years on Che Guevara was a violent, misguided revolutionary
Fifty years on: Che Guevara was a violent, misguided re...

By Ivo Vegter – 10 October 2017

Fifty years after his death, young hipsters and old socialists still lionize Che Guevara, who was killed on the orders of the Bolivian government on 9 October 1967. But the romantic image of the immortal revolutionary papers over nasty cracks in his legacy.

Yesterday, Kate Janse van Rensburg remembered “Che Guevara through the lens”. The article is styled as a coolly detached opinion about the significance of iconic images in documenting history; the image in this case, of course, being Alberto Korda’s famous photograph of Guevara that adorns graffiti walls, protest posters and commercial merchandise to this day.

Janse van Rensburg says this image exists, for the most part, “…empty of Guevara’s revolutionary character and indifferent to the historical context in which it was born. Guevara was a communist and anti-imperialist, a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary.”

In that, she is entirely correct, except that she neglects to add an important adjective: Guevara was a violent communist revolutionary. He considered the capitalist class to be brutally oppressive of the poor people of the world, and believed that it could only be overthrown by armed revolt.
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Guevara should be judge by the outcome of his actions. He became what he preached, “a cold-blooded killing machine.” Daniel James writes that Che himself admitted to ordering “several thousand” executions during the first few years of the Castroit regime. He executed thousands without trial, and claimed that judicial evidence was an “unnecessary bourgeois detail”, signed death warrants for hundreds of men. He also said, “To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.” This psychopath true legacy is one of terror and murder.

Sandokan · Apr 24, 2019

Che 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. In a 1961 speech Che denounced the very “spirit of rebellion” as “reprehensible.”, “Youth should learn to think and act as a mass”, and he vowed, “to make individualism disappear from Cuba! It is criminal to think in terms of individuals!”

The youth in the island nowadays show their “spirit of rebellion” by growing long hair, listening to Rock & Roll and questioning the regime mandates. They act as individuals.