Totalitarian pop

My husband likes to wear this No Che t-shirt to celebrate American holidays like July 4th.

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One day he wore it into our very multi-culti local coffee shop, where he really harshed their buzz. They whined.."why don't you like Che??"

He didn't have a list of the reasons on hand, but if anyone asks, via the Babalu Blog, here are the facts behind ten myths about Che:

8. HIS ADVENTURES WERE A CELEBRATION OF LIFE. Instead, they were an orgy of death. He executed many innocent people in Santa Clara, in central Cuba, where his column was based in the last stage of the armed struggle. After the triumph of the revolution, he was in charge of "La Cabaña" prison for half a year. He ordered the execution of hundreds of prisoners—former Batista men, journalists, businessmen, and others. A few witnesses, including Javier Arzuaga, who was the chaplain of "La Cabaña", and José Vilasuso, who was a member of the body in charge of the summary judicial process, recently gave me their painful testimonies.

9. HE WAS A VISIONARY. His vision of Latin America was actually quite blurred. Take, for instance, his view that the guerrillas had to take to the countryside because that is where the struggling masses lived. In fact, since the 1960s, most peasants have peacefully deserted the countryside in part because of the failure of land reform, which has hindered the development of a property-based agriculture and economies of scale with absurd regulations forbidding all sorts of private arrangements.

[Link thanks to Fausta at the Bad Hair Blog, who has more good reasons to dislike Che]
Posted by Mary Madigan on Tuesday October 11, 2005 at 10:42am

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