Posted on 04/25/2006 7:19:19 PM PDT by Number57
Andy Garcia is urging fashion-conscious rebels to stop wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the image of Latino revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara because they remind Cubans of terrible times. The actor accepts that Guevara stands for rebellion and is seen as a hero to many, but he sees the revolutionary as a butcher who killed millions of his countrymen.
Argentine-born Guevara helped current Cuban leader Fidel Castro overthrow General Fulgencio Batista's government in a guerrilla revolution in the late 1950s.
Garcia, who left Cuba when he was five, says, "I'd be curious to go around and ask them how much they really know about Che. Some people wearing the T-shirt don't even know his name. They know he's some sort of revolutionary, and to wear his image is cool because you feel like a revolutionary. Someone told me the other day that they asked one of these people if they were aware of all the executions that Che was a part of in Cuba and the guy said, 'Well, I don't know if that's true, as if it had been made up to discredit him.' I wish you could say it was made up because that would mean that all those people didn't die under his thumb. That's the tragedy."
I think it was Fintan that did it first.
One day on e the way home from work, me and a friend stopped at a convenience store and some kid walked in with a green beret emblazened with the red star on it. I asked my buddy if he thought that numbnut even knew what that meant......
“Let’s see” was the answer as he started yelling “Power to the State man!” Several times over. Funny thing was that not only did the kid miss the point, but from the looks he was getting nobody else in the store could figure it out either.
What was for dinner? I'm looking for ideas! :-)
Mark
Good for him. He’s a brave man.
Say what you want about Godfather III — many people hate it — but two and a half hours of Andy Garcia? Madonn'! That scene where he and Sofia Coppola are making gnocchi — let's just say he can make gnocchi with me any time!
So gorgeous.... Andy Garcia bio from NNDB.
That picture is a perfect example of the old saying, “The only good Red, is a dead Red.”
Would that be Fort Marcy Park, Bolivia?
I think he’s gorgeous too. Nice to see he has good character as well.
Well, his last big role was in the Ocean's Eleven film series, where he played a part that is largely based on a notoriously successful Republican businessman, namely Steve Wynn.
I saw that ping from you, and I had a
moment...
I thought I had completely forgotten Tijeras_Slim...While I often post this:
I don't really mean it.
I always try to make a point to shake a soldier’s hand when I see him. Well, one day as I waited to pick my son up from school (we have to wait outside the doors, in the front of the building) and a a father was dressed in his fatigues waiting for his child. I shook his hand and thanked him for everything he does for us. The next week I saw him in civilian clothes and he was wearing a Che shirt. :( I was disheartened.
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Thread is absolutely useless without pics.
A couple of years ago, I went on a weekend thing with my wife, her sister and her sister’s son.
Nice kid, art major, but like many kids, kind of clueless about certain things. We were going out to eat one night, and he comes down wearing a Che shirt.
We had the following conversation:
ME: “Do you know who that guy is on your shirt?”
NEPHEW: “Ummm...he’s a revolutionary guy?”
ME: “Yeah. Do you know what kind of “revolutionary guy”?”
NEPHEW: Umm...no.
ME: “It was his job to have people who disagreed with Castro dragged out of their homes in the middle of the night and murdered in front of their families, and then the families were sometimes murdered. This guy was the one who did it.”
NEPHEW: “Um...I just kind of like the shirt.”
ME: “Ah.”
My wife didn’t give me the evil eye because she understood my point, but I am the mean conservative in my wife’s family. My mother-in-law used to goad me once in a while (she is EXTREMELY liberal) but when I made it known that I would express my views regardless of the company, she stopped.
I don’t talk politics around people whose politics I am unsure of because I do believe it is rude to do so, but if someone brings it up first, I’m not going to just sit there.
It is kind of funny, my two nephews who are both freshmen in college...uber liberals that they are, understand that if you want to swim in the water with sharks, you gotta have the gear to survive, so they only test me obliquely...:) I am not mean or nasty, but I make sure they hear the side their professors aren’t going to give them. If they ask. And I am prepared to back it up with facts, which they can understand.
Yes!
Much better.
I almost had to like read or something.
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