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."
You are right. I stand corrected.
Good point. All that matters is he is dead.
I have that shirt, but I dare say she looks far more fetching in it.
“I always knew there was a reason Andy Garcia made me think sinful thoughts.”
Strange...he has the same effect on me...
*sigh*
Seconded! (Though it's best if they're photos from about ten years ago.)
That's it precisely. But of course every last one of the shirt-wearers would be horrified if they actually had to live in the product of Che's revolution -- communist Cuba. Curiously, they're all in denial about the fact that freedom in the most fundamental sense is outlawed in Cuba, instead choosing to focus exclusively on the "free healthcare" aspect. ...as if that alone trumps freedom of expression, assembly, association, mobility, etc.
Che's fans would be quickly cured of their disorder by becoming Cuban citizens and, like all its subjects, prohibited from leaving Che's/Castro's so-called "island paradise."
For what it's worth, according to Humberto Fontova, the author of one of the few books on Guevara that's not total b.s., the Cuban-born CIA operative who presided over Guevara's capture says that he received word on the whereabouts of Guevara from the Bolivian Communist Party, who received the info from Havana. Of course, Castro's betrayal of Guevara is among the very least of Castro's crimes...and an absolute impossibility for the left to ever accept.
Like, Dude, who calls anybody "Mac", Bro?
The People’s Cube has some great anti-Che t shirts. They are also currently featuring a quiz to guess which collectivist said what. Sometimes you just don’t know - was it Hillary or Lenin?
Oh yeah...now THAT’S what I’m talkin’ about!
Thanks g.
Considering that Che was one of the biggest losers of the twentieth century, I find it appropriate that liberals still sport his face on posters and T-shirts.
I agree. I think he’s HOT.....
Me too....
Giggle.
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