The Real Che

[Stephen]

Watched Che Parts 1&2.. Good film but strangely Sodernbergh has left out all the bits about him being responsible for the execution of over 180 prisoners some just boys. Is this what celebs such like Thierry Henry are condoning by wearing Che T-Shirts?“I have a Che T-shirt and I don’t know why.”Che was a purist political fanatic who saw everything in stark black and white. Therefore he vociferously opposed freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, protest, or any other rights not completely consistent with his North Korean-style communism. How many rock music-loving teens sporting Guevara t-shirts today know their hero supported Cuba 1960s’ repression of the genre? I mean under Che's regime you would not be allowd to listen to the music of Radioheadf.How many homosexual fans know he had gays jailed?Did the Obama volunteers in that Texas campaign headquarters with Che’s poster on the wall know that Guevara fervently opposed any free elections? How “progressive” is that?Adding to the ridiculousness of the Che cult is that he was virtually a complete failure. As a medical doctor, he never even had a practice. When put in charge of the Cuban economy at the start of Castro’s government, his uncompromising communist diktats ran it completely into the ground, from which it never recovered. Humiliated, and also angry that Castro wasn’t fomenting enough revolution abroad, he then tried to lead such quixotic adventures in Argentina, the Congo, and Bolivia, failing miserably everywhere while sacrificing the lives of scores of naïve, idealistic young followers as deluded pawns in the service of his personality cult.Dont fall for revolutionary chic when when the reality was not freedom but Soviet tanks crushing Czechoslovakia in 1968.