Posted on 09/03/2007 2:14:19 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Lock of Che Guevara's hair to be sold
Mon Sep 3, 12:51 PM ET
MIAMI - A former CIA operative and Cuban exile plans to auction what he says is a lock of Che Guevara's hair, snipped before the Argentinian revolutionary and friend of Fidel Castro was buried in 1967.
Gustavo Villoldo, 71, was involved in Guevara's capture in the jungles of Bolivia, according to unclassified U.S. records and other documents. He plans to auction the hair and other items kept in a scrapbook since the joint CIA-Bolivian army mission 40 years ago.
"It's time for me to put the past behind and pass these on to someone else," said Villoldo, also a veteran of the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
The scrapbook also holds a map used to track down Guevara in Bolivia, photos of Guevara's body, intercepted messages between Guevara and his rebels and a set of Guevara's fingerprints taken before his burial.
It's hard to predict how much the collection will net at auction because there is nothing comparable on the market, said Tom Slater, director of the Americana department at Heritage Auctions of Dallas, which will put the collection on the block Oct. 25-26.
"We cannot recall ever having seen artifacts relating to Che's dramatic career and death appearing on the auction market, and we expect this offering to excite broad bidder interest," Slater said.
The Cuban government announced in 1995 that its anthropologists had uncovered Guevara's remains from Bolivia, and re-interred them in Cuba without doing DNA testing. Villoldo and other exiles and experts say the body is still in Bolivia.
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Not on Levin’s show...
I did read a print interview of Humberto Fontova on FrontPageMag.com
I’ll give ya a bucket of spit for it.
*snort*!
You could do that pretty much indefinitely, I guess. If I had truckloads of filthy capitalist lucre, I'd buy it and publicly burn it.
Hm. Perhaps even *that* is too dignified.
< grin > I bought some Gorilla Glue yesterday. I rushed into Home Despot up the street and informed the clerk that I had a broken gorilla and needed something for it, right away.
Better yet..
There could be a shooting gallery of live Che clones for rich capitalists to target practice on...
Oh the money that could be made.
“The Cuban government announced in 1995 that its anthropologists had uncovered Guevara’s remains from Bolivia, and re-interred them in Cuba without doing DNA testing.”
No, that was an American journalist (and Che Guevara worshipper), not a Cuban anthropologist who uncovered the body and notified Castro about it. He hounded a former Bolivian Army General to show him where the secret burial site was.
Don’t remember if it was the Hitler channel or National Geographic, they were so excited, they made a show about it.
P1ss on dead Che.
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