Posted on 02/17/2011 5:39:24 AM PST by decimon
Among Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s final requests before he was executed by Bolivian forces in 1967 was that a message of hope be sent back to Fidel Castro: the revolution would come to America.
Che immediately became the martyr for the radical left, with his image seized by American protestors of the 1960s. Since then another, cultural, revolution has taken place. Wikipedia catalogs references to him worldwide from restaurant names, to advertising campaigns, to music, to pop culture. His image adorned an Obama Texas campaign office in 2008. Che’s image is now displayed by average college students and even toddlers. No one blinks an eye when a student garbed in clothing bearing his iconic upward gaze takes a seat in my classroom. Students get their fashion cues from music, movie, and sports stars, and follow professors who display Che on office doors and websites, and teach courses about him. Students can find online guides to writing papers about the 2003 New York Times bestselling translation of Che’s Motorcycle Diaries, which was made into the 2004 box office hit.
Those who document the reality of the Castro regime, however, do not find themselves well received in the academy. For example, Juan J. Lopez once taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago but was denied tenure in spite of a teaching award and a well-received book published by The Johns Hopkins University Press titled Democracy Delayed: The Case of Castro’s Cuba. Lopez had escaped Cuba with his parents and moved to the United States in 1967.
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What does Imus have to do with this? ;-)
“Was this waiter a victim of Che’s and Castro’s “reeducation camps” for gays?”
His Grandfather was in reeducation camp but not gay...died in prison.
Add the fact that Che and Castro were seriously considering taking over the Soviet missiles in Cuba and launching them, starting WW-3. This was the REAL reason Khruschev pulled the missiles out.
BTTT
I don't blame him for being bitter. He has every right.
The story I've heard is that Castro was pushing the Soviets for that war. In Fog of War, Robert McNamara states that Castro told him so at some conference in the 1990s.
“Average Cubans harbor no ill will towards Americans”
Despite decades of isolation and deafening anti-Yanqui propaganda. And yet Americans are widely hated in the Muslim countries we have been trying to assist, how ironic.
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