Thanks on the details about Che that I had forgotten or never knew.
Why is Chavez so idiolized? The quotes to me on this thread sound nice enough. But he WAS AT LEAST QUITE ASSOCIATED with card carrying Party members!
Just because
her unroyal lowness,
her hideous heinous--
Bwitch Shrillery was and is a Communist
is NOT the least bit of a reason to feel more kindly toward them!
I could be wrong but I don't think Chavez was ever a communist or advocated communist ways but I think for sure the Communist Party did infiltrate the UFW union and has pretty much made Chavez a symbol of their own --- for their own purposes. Eugenio Parente-Ramos was an example of what this. Here's more on him:
"Mr. Parente, whose real name was Gerald William Doeden and was actually of Norwegian descent, reportedly took on the imagined Mexican name and persona to enhance his credibility in his supposed struggles as a radical labor organizer and leader of the Eastern Farm Worker's Association (EFW). The EFW is just one of many front organizations led by Mr. Parente to mask recruitment for his cult-like group. Mr. Parente, who had a history of involvement with left-wing revolutionary groups, was a former disc jockey and one-time owner of a left-wing bookstore in San Francisco in the 1960's. He founded the CPUSA/P on Long Island in 1972. The group, an offshoot of the Progressive Labor Party, (which in turn is split off from the Communist Party USA), seems to follow Communist ideology closely, structuring the hierarchy of their own group after the former Soviet Union's Politburo. Mr. Parente died in March of 1995 at the age of 59."
"Mr. Parente claimed to be a close friend of United Farm Workers' late leader Cesar Chavez. Although Mr. Chavez claimed to have never heard of Mr. Parente-Ramos (New York Post Nov. 13, 1996), Mr. Parente was reportedly a UFW organizer, and was fired by Chavez when he would not submit to UFW discipline after he had advocated violence."
http://www.adl.org/presrele/Militi_71/2853_71.asp