Che

Hey Che Guerra, whats the deal? Good guy or bad guy? Thoughts?

He had a face tailor made for tee shirts. That sort of thing transcends questions of good and bad.

I remember thinking it was over when kids in my high school were drinking this -



One of them thought it was cool to carry around Mao's little red book.

There was a girl that always drank it too that hung out with the druggie/Maoist crowd - but I always forgave her (like I always do women) because of her proficiency with throwing knives. I think she'd had a brief stint in military training in one of those war-torn Balkan states.

Wasn't he the guy in that band, Rage Against the Machine?

He rocked! I saw him at Lollapalooza.

I have to go with the "communism is bad" approach.

Interesting story:
In 1955 Fidel was exiled to Mexico for participating in an aborted uprising. Che was a doctor by edcation and Fidel recruited him there to act as the medic for the cadre he was forming to re-rebel. The early stages of the uprising were a little less 'mass' than Fidel planned, and Che soon found himself fighting as often as he was doctoring. Years later he would recount the moment he abandoned his identity as a doctor in favor of his identity as revolutionary. The guerrillas were ambushed and forced to abandon their camp. Che looked down and saw a box of ammunition and a box of medical supplies. The army needed both badly, and he could only choose one. He chose the ammunition and it was raised fists and berets ever after.

Well yeah, but you have to say that. You're from Florida.

The communists failed to perfect fake boobs.

Che the man and the legend are somewhat different and diverging more every day.

I don't care about his politics. What I don't like about Che is the fact that he was a medical doctor who abandoned the Oath and caused harm. But that is a judgement against him as a person than against him as a revolutionary.

As I understand it, the same ethics that led Che to pursue medicine led him to the commitment to purge Cuba of the very real harm caused by Batista and his cronies. As a dedicated revolutionary he had the luxury of moving on to the next revolution rather than undertaking the messy and less morally pure tasks of reconstruction.

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I don't know who this "Che Guerra" guy is, but his last name means "war" in three languages, so that can't be good.

Was that directed at me or the OP?

It was a lame joke directed at absolutely nobody.

Ah. Si, si.

Chez Guevara, that's a restaurant, right?

From the same company that brought you the "i'd rather be waterboarding" shirt of martinj fame

This book was also enjoyable

This one provided hours of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" daydreams to me as a teenager. Also, it got me flagged at the local library.