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| Che Guevara |
.^ A young, impressionable Ernesto “Che” Guevara de la Serna, born of middle class roots, planned to become a doctor, not a revolutionary.- Pajamas Media » The True Story of Che 10 February 2010 14:14 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: General]
^ Che Guevara ha sacrificato la sua vita combattendo x un popolo che non era nemmeno il suo.- Blog di Beppe Grillo - La figlia del Che 6 February 2010 12:22 UTC www.beppegrillo.it [Source type: Academic]
^ Obama supporters evoke memory of Che Guevara .- Obama Che Guevara Flag ‘Scandal’ - Blogrunner 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.blogrunner.com [Source type: General]
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| Date of birth: |
June 14, 1928[1] |
| Place of birth: |
Rosario, Argentina |
| Date of death: |
October 9, 1967 (aged 39) |
| Place of death: |
La Higuera, Bolivia |
| Major organizations: |
26th of July Movement, United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution,[2] National Liberation Army (Bolivia) |
| Religion: |
None[3] |
.^ There he was, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, so-called heroic martyr of the Cuban Revolution.- Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Che Guevara: Hollywood’s Mass-Murdering Phenom 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC bighollywood.breitbart.com [Source type: General]
^ That’s the Cuban flag with the image of Ernesto Che Guevara superimposed on it.
^ Ernesto "Che" Guevara ( 14 June 1928 – 9 October 1967 ), commonly known as Che Guevara , El Che , or simply Che , was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, politician, author, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader during the Cuban revolution.- Che Guevara - Wikiquote 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
.^ Following his execution in Bolivia, he became both a stylized countercultural icon and symbol of rebellion for leftist movements worldwide.- Che Guevara - Wikiquote 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
[4]
.^ As a result, Guevara experienced firsthand the poverty so prevalent in Latin America.
^ Born in comfortable circumstances in Argentina, Guevara had a special feeling for the poor and oppressed that he saw throughout South and Central America.- Biography: Che Guevara - Restless Revolutionary - Synopsis - MSN Movies 10 February 2010 14:14 UTC movies.msn.com [Source type: General]
^ Che Guevara was a brutal Marxist killer responsible for the deaths of thousands of Cubans as well as many others throughout Central and South America.- Obama Che Guevara Flag ‘Scandal’ - Blogrunner 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.blogrunner.com [Source type: General]
[5] .^ Ever since monopoly capital took over the world, it has kept the greater part of humanity in poverty, dividing all the profits among the group of the most powerful countries.- Che Guevara - Wikiquote 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
^ But this remedy bears the germs of the same sickness: that of a solitary being seeking harmony with the world.- Che Guevara - Wikiquote 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
^ His insistence on commanding all aspects of the revolution led him to reject the communist leader, Monje's demands for control of the revolution.
[6] .^ Cubans, under the Batista regime, existed in a state of regression while the people of Bolivia perceived pro- gressive reform and social improvement.
^ Che Guevara was ‘created’ through the United Fruit Co & CIA 1953 overthrow of the democratically elected Arbenz in Guatemala (while Che was living there).- Pajamas Media » Will the Real Che Guevara Please Stand Up? 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: Original source]
^ After rising to power in Fidel Castro's revolutionary government, Che Guevara attained international status as a spokesman for radical social progress.
.^ Cuban veteran of Castro's "July 26th Movement".
^ He met like-minded souls in Fidel and Raul Castro, and together they began plotting the overthrow of General Fulgencio Batista’s government in Cuba.- Pajamas Media » The True Story of Che 10 February 2010 14:14 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: General]
^ The funds for these bribes derived mostly from Fidel's snookering of Batista's wealthy political opponents, convincing them that he was a "patriotic Cuban, a democrat," and that they should join, or at least help fund, his 26th of July Movement in order to bring democracy and prosperity to Cuba.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
[7] .^ Finally, a study of the Bolivian campaign reveals a counter guerrilla success story.
^ American military aid, although significant, played a secondary role in defeating the guerrilla movement.
^ These factors, initially advantageous to the insurgents, actually became liabilities as the campaign progressed, working against the guerrillas in the end.
[8]
.^ Understanding Che Guevara's concepts on guerrilla warfare requires, first, a review of the experiences that influenced his theories, primarily, the Cuban revolution.
^ Even the New York Times admits that the first two months of the Cuban Revolution saw 568 firing squad executions.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
^ Thus, Guevara's role in the new hierarchy was legitimized, albeit, by rather artificial means.
.^ So in a massive "relocation" campaign reminiscent of the one Spanish General Valerinao "The Butcher" Weyler carried out against Cubans during their war of independence at the turn of the century, Castro's Soviet-trained armed forces ripped hundreds of thousands of rural Cubans from their ancestral homes at gunpoint and herded them into concentration camps on the opposite side of Cuba.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
^ "To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary…These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail.- Obama Che Guevara Flag ‘Scandal’ - Blogrunner 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.blogrunner.com [Source type: General]
^ In October 1959, Castro named him director of the Industrial Department of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA); a month later Che also assumed duties as the president of the National Bank of Cuba.
.^ So in a massive "relocation" campaign reminiscent of the one Spanish General Valerinao "The Butcher" Weyler carried out against Cubans during their war of independence at the turn of the century, Castro's Soviet-trained armed forces ripped hundreds of thousands of rural Cubans from their ancestral homes at gunpoint and herded them into concentration camps on the opposite side of Cuba.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
^ Finally, Che's personal involvement in Cuba's aborted attempt to support the Congo rebellion played a decisive role in subsequent decisions to try again in a country closer to home.
^ Castro refers to the Bay of Pigs invasion merits mention.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
[11] .^ His manual, Che Guevara on Guerrilla Warfare, introduced the foco theory of revolutions and remains one of the classic dissertations on guerrilla warfare.
^ Alberto Granado , who traveled with Che across South America on a motorcycle in 1952, as quoted in "My best friend Che" at BBC News (9 May 2005) He always did what he said he was going to do, That's why he is still timely.- Che Guevara - Wikiquote 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
^ His introduction to the realities of guerrilla life, about which he wrote so eloquently, convinced Debray that his contributions to revolutionary warfare should remain theoretical.
.^ Felix Rodriguez , CIA agent who relayed the order from Bolivian president René Barrientos and the Bolivian military high command to execute Guevara BBC Che was the most complete human being of our age.- Che Guevara - Wikiquote 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Among the Bolivians who assisted the Cubans were Jorge Kolle Cueto and Mario Monje Molina, communist party officials who subsequently would play significant roles in Guevara's later Bolivia campaign.8 Che ultimately desired to bring revolution to his homeland and had established a network of subversion in Argentina as early as 1961.
^ Understanding Che Guevara's concepts on guerrilla warfare requires, first, a review of the experiences that influenced his theories, primarily, the Cuban revolution.
[12]
.^ Full Synopsis Biography: Ella Fitzgerald - Forever Ella Release: 2000 "Ella Fitzgerald" was called the First Lady of Song, and in the film "Biography:...- Biography: Che Guevara - Restless Revolutionary - Synopsis - MSN Movies 10 February 2010 14:14 UTC movies.msn.com [Source type: General]
^ Full Synopsis Biography: Mongomery Clift - The Hidden Star This documentary chronicles the life and film career of "Montgomery Clift".- Biography: Che Guevara - Restless Revolutionary - Synopsis - MSN Movies 10 February 2010 14:14 UTC movies.msn.com [Source type: General]
^ The truth is that Guevara was, remains and will always be a complex and mysterious figure( the CIA thought he was dead for five years before they found him in Bolivia!- Pajamas Media » Will the Real Che Guevara Please Stand Up? 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: Original source]
Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century,
[13] while an
Alberto Korda photograph of him entitled
Guerrillero Heroico (shown), was declared "the most famous photograph in the world."
[14]
Early life
A teenage Ernesto (left) with his parents and siblings, ca. 1944. Seated beside him, from left to right: Celia (mother), Celia (sister), Roberto, Juan Martín, Ernesto (father) and Ana María.
.^ Cronologia dettagliata 1928-1930 - Nasce a Rosario, primo di cinque figli, da Celia de la Serna ed Ernesto Guevara Lynch.- Blog di Beppe Grillo - La figlia del Che 6 February 2010 12:22 UTC www.beppegrillo.it [Source type: Academic]
^ Ernesto "Che" Guevara ( 14 June 1928 – 9 October 1967 ), commonly known as Che Guevara , El Che , or simply Che , was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, politician, author, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader during the Cuban revolution.- Che Guevara - Wikiquote 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Isolato e braccato, Ernesto Guevara De La Serna detto "CHE", venne catturato dai miliziani locali boliviani e giustiziato il 9 ottobre 1967.- Blog di Beppe Grillo - La figlia del Che 6 February 2010 12:22 UTC www.beppegrillo.it [Source type: Academic]
[15] .^ Had Ernesto Guevara De La Serna y Lynch not linked up with Raul and Fidel Castro in Mexico city that fateful summer of 1955 -- had he not linked up with a Cuban exile named Nico Lopez in Guatemala the year before who later introduced him to Raul and Fidel Castro in Mexico city -- everything points to Ernesto continuing his life of a traveling hobo, mooching off women, staying in flophouses and scribbling unreadable poetry.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
^ Cronologia dettagliata 1928-1930 - Nasce a Rosario, primo di cinque figli, da Celia de la Serna ed Ernesto Guevara Lynch.- Blog di Beppe Grillo - La figlia del Che 6 February 2010 12:22 UTC www.beppegrillo.it [Source type: Academic]
^ Ernesto Guevara de la Serna's achievements fall far below those of the three men mentioned above.
In reference to Che's "restless" nature, his father declared "the first thing to note is that in my son's veins flowed the blood of the
Irish rebels."
[16] Very early on in life Ernestito (as he was then called) developed an "affinity for the poor."
[17] .^ Since Che Guevara, above all else, was controversial, sources representing widely different perspectives of the man and his life were readily available.
^ Even the smallest steps toward reconciliation can kick up disputes that require the finesse of a diplomat and the perspective of a historian to overcome.
^ Among Foolables of either spectrum of the political axis, I've seen attempts to dress up their ideologies in the garments of doctrine.
[18] .^ Bayo, a former officer in the Spanish Republican Army, had a great deal of guerrilla warfare ex- perience gained in Morrocco against the Arabs and in the Spanish Civil War.
^ According to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, George Pataki is a pro-choice Catholic Republican who is a supporter of civil unions for the gay community.
^ My Dad was a husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, Veteran, a 2 time hole-in-one scratch golfer, and many other things.- Burgess Family Tree @ www.sandisullivan.com 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC www.sandisullivan.com [Source type: General]
[19]
.^ A marked trait of Che's personality throughout his life appeared in his early fight against asthma.
[20][21] .^ But he found a way for Che to earn his keep and stay of trouble in Cuba by assigning him as commander of La Cabana, the fortress where political prisoners were held and killed.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
^ That Argentine was Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, better known as “Che.” The movie is actually two films that total just under four and a half hours.- Pajamas Media » Will the Real Che Guevara Please Stand Up? 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Ernesto Guevara de la Serna's achievements fall far below those of the three men mentioned above.
[23] .^ "Ernesto was nicknamed "Chancho" ("pig") by his schoolmates because he rarely bathed , something he was rather proud of."- FARK.com: (2945349) Benicio del Toro will play socialist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara in upcoming movie, which will make loads of cash for the bourgeoisie 6 February 2010 12:22 UTC www.fark.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ Then he presents those moments in his life in which he, too, experienced the intimacy of God's presence: I also remember distinctly a certain evening, when I was about 12 years old.
^ Then I became a Republican and learned some facts about Mr. Guevara, as the New York Times might respectfully refer to him.- Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Che Guevara: Hollywood’s Mass-Murdering Phenom 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC bighollywood.breitbart.com [Source type: General]
[24] He could also recite
Rudyard Kipling's
"If—" and
José Hernández's
"Martín Fierro" from memory.
[24] .^ Full Synopsis Biography: Jacqueline Smith - The Writing Machine Biography: Jules Verne The French writer "Jules Verne" has taken every science fiction reader willing...- Biography: Che Guevara - Restless Revolutionary - Synopsis - MSN Movies 10 February 2010 14:14 UTC movies.msn.com [Source type: General]
^ The inheritance tax is one of the most uniquely un- American taxes, and as a matter of fact was endorsed by none other than Karl Marx .- Shaun Kenney | Politics and Religion in Virginia's Public Square 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC www.shaunkenney.com [Source type: Original source]
^ I am very interested to see more than excerpts from Michelle's thesis as well.- Barack Obama Endorses Communist Punk Che Guevara : Conservative Blog: Urban Conservative 2.0 – Conservative News & Politics 10 February 2010 14:14 UTC www.urbanconservative.com [Source type: Original source]
[25] .^ Jean-Paul Sartre , as quoted in the trailer for the film Motorcyle Diaries (2004) He was demanding of everyone and practiced being a personal example.- Che Guevara - Wikiquote 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
^ Jean-Paul Sartre Che was loved, in spite of being stern and demanding.- Che Guevara - Wikiquote 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC en.wikiquote.org [Source type: Original source]
[26]
A 22-year-old Guevara in 1951
As he grew older, he developed an interest in the Latin American writers
Horacio Quiroga,
Ciro Alegría,
Jorge Icaza,
Rubén Darío, and
Miguel Asturias.
[26] .^ Most secularists themselves would probably concede that these ideas constitute a reigning orthodoxy within many universities, including some with religious affiliations.
.^ Most secularists themselves would probably concede that these ideas constitute a reigning orthodoxy within many universities, including some with religious affiliations.
.^ "I know and have studied Freud all too well...so please don't quote him without expecting a rebuttal.
^ I know and have studied Freud all too well...so please don't quote him without expecting a rebuttal.
[26] His favorite subjects in school included
philosophy,
mathematics,
engineering,
political science,
sociology,
history and
archaeology.
[27][28].^ A year later, Che sponsored a group of insurgents under the leader- ship of Jorge Recardo Masetti, an Argentine journalist turned revo- lutionary.
^ He oozes sexual charisma in a way that even Che Guevara-Lynch would envy.- Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Che Guevara: Hollywood’s Mass-Murdering Phenom 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC bighollywood.breitbart.com [Source type: General]
^ Since Che Guevara, above all else, was controversial, sources representing widely different perspectives of the man and his life were readily available.
[29]
Motorcycle journey
In 1948, Guevara entered the
University of Buenos Aires to study medicine.
.^ I’ve made some early trips into Iowa and New Hampshire, Michigan, and last year some travels around South Carolina.
.^ "Continue with your work, continue with your talk, you have it in your hands, to own your lives, to own your lands".- Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Che Guevara: Hollywood’s Mass-Murdering Phenom 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC bighollywood.breitbart.com [Source type: General]
[30] .^ Too many of us seem to live such insulated existences that the concept of the presence of other people is a foreign one.- DOUG HAGIN ARCHIVED COLUMNS 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC doughagin.tripod.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Crowds will follow, and we'll march to cheaper places such as Fresno or Hartford, find those jobs, and live happily ever after...- Shaun Kenney | Politics and Religion in Virginia's Public Square 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC www.shaunkenney.com [Source type: Original source]
^ He proposed the State as the sum total reality upon which people should devote their lives and loyalty.
[30] .^ Archival news footage, newspaper accounts, diaries, Guevara's own writings, and the personal recollections of those who knew him best reveal the intensity of the man known as Che.- Biography: Che Guevara - Restless Revolutionary - Synopsis - MSN Movies 10 February 2010 14:14 UTC movies.msn.com [Source type: General]
^ Note: This could mean that the number of ratings used for this calculation is different from the same number shown in the Recent Ratings table on the left.- eBay Feedback Profile for ianj2460 6 February 2010 12:22 UTC feedback.ebay.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ He and co-author Carol Crossed would love to see it in the New York Times, etc.
.^ Understanding the steps leading to Che's selection for his next revolution first requires an appreciation for Cuba's position in 1965 as the vanguard for the worldwide "wars of national liberation".
^ Guevara's theories captured the imagination of revolutionaries world- wide and has directly impacted upon their attempts to fight wars of national liberation.
^ Yes, they do want to destroy this nation, and they recognize that eradicating America’s border is a path to that end.- DOUG HAGIN ARCHIVED COLUMNS 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC doughagin.tripod.com [Source type: Original source]
His conception of a borderless, united
Hispanic America sharing a common '
Latino' heritage was a theme that prominently recurred during his later revolutionary activities. Upon returning to Argentina, he completed his studies and received his medical degree in June 1953, making him officially "Dr. Ernesto Guevara."
[32][33] Guevara later remarked that through his travels of Latin America, he came in "close contact with
poverty,
hunger and
disease" along with the "inability to treat a child because of lack of money" and "stupefaction provoked by the continual hunger and punishment" that leads a father to "accept the loss of a son as an unimportant accident." It was these experiences which Guevara cites as convincing him that in order to "help these people", he needed to leave the realm of medicine, and consider the political arena of armed struggle.
[5]
Guatemala, Arbenz and United Fruit
Che Guevara's movements between 1953 and 1956, including his trip north to Guatemala, his stay in Mexico and his journey east by boat to Cuba with
Fidel Castro and other revolutionaries
.^ The first time Guevara came across a competent force (in Bolivia),he was annhilated.- Pajamas Media » Will the Real Che Guevara Please Stand Up? 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: Original source]
^ He’s spelled out his expectations for each of us by giving us life at a specific time and place and by giving us each a specific set of gifts.
^ However, an impartial analysis in the same manner of Che Guevara's campaign provides an accurate portrayal of the situation in Bolivia at that time.
.^ Che Guevara was ‘created’ through the United Fruit Co & CIA 1953 overthrow of the democratically elected Arbenz in Guatemala (while Che was living there).- Pajamas Media » Will the Real Che Guevara Please Stand Up? 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Tweets that mention Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Che Guevara: Hollywood’s Mass-Murdering Phenom -- Topsy.com - December 16th, 2009 at 10:24 am [...- Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Che Guevara: Hollywood’s Mass-Murdering Phenom 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC bighollywood.breitbart.com [Source type: General]
.^ Then, he lets the facts speak for themselves: "I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States," said Lee.
^ Che Guevara was ‘created’ through the United Fruit Co & CIA 1953 overthrow of the democratically elected Arbenz in Guatemala (while Che was living there).- Pajamas Media » Will the Real Che Guevara Please Stand Up? 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: Original source]
[34] This affirmed indignation carried the "head hunting tone" that he adopted in order to frighten his more
Conservative relatives, and ends with Guevara swearing on an image of the then recently deceased
Joseph Stalin, not to rest until these "octopuses have been vanquished."
[35] Later that month, Guevara arrived in
Guatemala where President
Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán headed a democratically elected government that, through
land reform and other initiatives, was attempting to end the
latifundia system.
.^ Che's dedication to improving the plight of the peasants in Bolivia compared favorably to Barrientos' program of social reform.
.^ This death need not have occurred and it is more than reason enough to ensure that measures are taken to prevent other meaningless murders in the future.- Burgess Family Tree @ www.sandisullivan.com 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC www.sandisullivan.com [Source type: General]
^ If you check the FACTS, you will find that most of those States you list pay more Taxes to the Federal Government, than is returned to them from the Federal Government.- Bachus tells city and county officials he's worried about socialists in Congress - Breaking News from The Birmingham News - al.com 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC blog.al.com [Source type: General]
^ I'd have more respect for the moderates if they actually proposed a "third way" to govern, but they have no principle other than appearing to act in moderation.- Shaun Kenney | Politics and Religion in Virginia's Public Square 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC www.shaunkenney.com [Source type: Original source]
[36] .^ A young, impressionable Ernesto “Che” Guevara de la Serna, born of middle class roots, planned to become a doctor, not a revolutionary.- Pajamas Media » The True Story of Che 10 February 2010 14:14 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: General]
^ Guevara's prominence as a revolution- ary leader stems from what he "stood for", his willingness to set the example in leading social revolt.1 His influence transcends his actual accomplishments in the field as he has become a popular symbol of ensuing revolutionary movements.
^ The RealClearPolitics national average and Pollster.com's equivalent are starting to trend down, with the last few polls consistently heading south.- Sound Politics: Rudy Might be Collapsing, Team Huck is Playing with Fire 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC soundpolitics.com [Source type: Original source]
[37]
.^ When Ernesto Guevara left Guatemala he was completely dedicated to revolu- tionary change.
^ Chapter II THE REVOLUTIONARY LEADER Ernesto Guevara arrived in Mexico City on September 21, 1954.
^ Full Synopsis Biography: George Washington - American Revolutionary Release: 2000 One of the greatest of all political minds, George Washington - incredibly -...- Biography: Che Guevara - Restless Revolutionary - Synopsis - MSN Movies 10 February 2010 14:14 UTC movies.msn.com [Source type: General]
She introduced Guevara to a number of high-level officials in the
Arbenz government.
.^ In his article, "Socialism and Man in Cuba", Che declared Castro's 1953 attempt to take the Moncada Barracks a "failure" and a "disaster", criticism never before uttered by any of Fidel's followers.4 Castro retaliated against Che's criticisms in a speech made in July 1965 in which he attacked Guevara's principles of "moral incentives" as a basis of social reform.5 These incidents, plus others, illustrate the ambivalent relationship then existing between the two men.
^ How can I expect judge Guevara to be impartial when he joined Fidel Castro in a mission to overthrow Cuba’s leader when he himself had never even been to Cuba.- Pajamas Media » Will the Real Che Guevara Please Stand Up? 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Fidel Castro, after the aborted landing on Cuba's southeastern coast, escaped into the Sierra Maestras with only fifteen survivors.
[38] During this period he acquired his famous nickname, due to his frequent use of the Argentine
vocative interjection
che, a slang casual speech filler used similarly to "eh" or "pal."
[39]
Guevara's attempts to obtain a medical internship were unsuccessful and his economic situation was often precarious.
.^ Also, the coup went into motion, not when Arbenz started nationalizing United Fruit property, but when a cargo of Soviet-bloc weapons arrived in Guatemala.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
[40][41] .^ The Arbeniz regime was immediately declared a communist backed government by the U.S. Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles.13 An invasion force under Carlos Castillo Armas, backed by the CIA, succeeded in overthrowing the Arbeniz government.
^ Post a comment Posted by siny0527 on 04/16/09 at 1:02PM Right wing extremists and fear-mongering will be the downfall of this country.- Bachus tells city and county officials he's worried about socialists in Congress - Breaking News from The Birmingham News - al.com 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC blog.al.com [Source type: General]
^ The right-wing extremists have always been the downfall of every country.- Bachus tells city and county officials he's worried about socialists in Congress - Breaking News from The Birmingham News - al.com 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC blog.al.com [Source type: General]
[37] .^ This dogmatic view of the revolution and his own role in it caused Guevara to overestimate his ability to fight the revolution without the support of the Bolivian communists.
^ The only bright moment occurred when the men sent to obtain Che's medical supplies managed to return to the main group.
Following the coup, he again volunteered to fight, but soon after, Arbenz took refuge in the Mexican Embassy and told his foreign supporters to leave the country. Guevara’s repeated calls to resist were noted by supporters of the coup, and he was marked for murder.
[42] .^ Declared a communist by the new regime, Guevara managed to arrange safe conduct out of the country and departed Guatemala on a train bound for Mexico City.14 Guatemala marked a transition in the life of Che Guevara.
^ True, Guevara wasn’t perfect and made many foolish mistakes along the way, but it’s more what he represented that makes him such an idol.- Pajamas Media » Will the Real Che Guevara Please Stand Up? 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: Original source]
[43] He married Gadea in Mexico in September 1955.
[44].^ Che Guevara was ‘created’ through the United Fruit Co & CIA 1953 overthrow of the democratically elected Arbenz in Guatemala (while Che was living there).- Pajamas Media » Will the Real Che Guevara Please Stand Up? 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Our Air Force unit in Panama in 1967 was peripherally involved in concluding this lowlife while working with the military arms of several countries in Central and South America.- Pajamas Media » Will the Real Che Guevara Please Stand Up? 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: Original source]
^ If the president of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA can't say god bless america then we live in a fucked up world!!!- Barack Obama Endorses Communist Punk Che Guevara : Conservative Blog: Urban Conservative 2.0 – Conservative News & Politics 10 February 2010 14:14 UTC www.urbanconservative.com [Source type: Original source]
In speaking about the coup Guevara stated:
"The last Latin American revolutionary democracy – that of Jacobo Arbenz – failed as a result of the cold premeditated aggression carried out by the U.S.A. Its visible head was the Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles, a man who, through a rare coincidence, was also a stockholder and attorney for the
United Fruit Company."
[42]
.^ Only men and women are capable of such integrated union that ultimately unites them to each other and opens the way for new life to enter the world.
^ Apparently, they cannot come to grips with the ugly truth, that the only true peace to be had must be achieved and maintained through strength.- DOUG HAGIN ARCHIVED COLUMNS 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC doughagin.tripod.com [Source type: Original source]
^ People existing under such desperate conditions are easily swayed by lead- ers who are capable of indoctrinating the masses through ideological manipulation.
[45] .^ It was enough for him to know that there were men determined to struggle against that situation, arms in hand; it was enough for him to know that those men were in- spired by genuinely revolutionary and patriotic ideas.
By the time he left, he was sure of this."
[46]
Mexico City and preparation
.^ Chapter II THE REVOLUTIONARY LEADER Ernesto Guevara arrived in Mexico City on September 21, 1954.
In addition he gave lectures on medicine at the
National Autonomous University of Mexico and worked as a news photographer for Latina News Agency.
[47] .^ Understanding Che Guevara's concepts on guerrilla warfare requires, first, a review of the experiences that influenced his theories, primarily, the Cuban revolution.
^ But he found a way for Che to earn his keep and stay of trouble in Cuba by assigning him as commander of La Cabana, the fortress where political prisoners were held and killed.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
^ "Then we spotted him, strutting around the blood-drenched execution yard with his hands on his waist and barking orders -- Che Guevara himself.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
[48] .^ One of the most frustrating--and haunting--reactions I saw over and over again was that of the regular people.
^ Invariably, Guevara's observa- tions reinforced his conviction that the ruling classes exploited the poor.
^ The one that describes his most famous military exploit is referred to as "The Battle of Santa Clara," which took place in December 1958.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
.^ On the contrary, his legacy surpasses the fame he achieved in life as the cult of "Che" was spawned among the world's youthful left- ists.
^ Fausta : I wonder if they show the part where Che-champion-of-the-poor died with his Rolex on, as he did in real life?- Pajamas Media » Will the Real Che Guevara Please Stand Up? 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Highly useful to research of all aspects of Che Guevara's life.
[48]
.^ In late 1957 Castro signed an agreement called "The Miami Pact" with several anti-Batista Cuban politicians and ex-ministers in exile at the time.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
^ Because I have talked to many other Cubans who were there at the time, some of whom actually fought under Castro, and they do not share the view you and "your" Cubans hold.- Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Che Guevara: Hollywood’s Mass-Murdering Phenom 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC bighollywood.breitbart.com [Source type: General]
.^ Cuban veteran of Castro's "July 26th Movement".
^ Che also earned the same respect from his fellow students who characterized him as a "...brilliant leader and exceptional commander."7 Although the key to post World War II revolutionary movements is the marriage of techniques with ideology, evidence indicates that Fidel Castro did not indoctrinate his trainees with specific communist doctrine at this time.
^ Two years earlier in the Sierra, Castro had ordered Che to take command over a guerrilla faction led by a fellow 26th of July Movement rebel named Jorge Sotus, who had been operating in an area north of the area where Fidel and Che were and had actually been confronting and fighting Batista's army.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
.^ Understanding Che Guevara's concepts on guerrilla warfare requires, first, a review of the experiences that influenced his theories, primarily, the Cuban revolution.
^ One month after Batista's fall from power, Castro declared through official decree that Che was a Cuban by birth.
^ One of the first portrayals of Guevara by American press.
[49] .^ This has forced many around the world to finally take notice of the regime, and ponder what should come next.- Shaun Kenney | Politics and Religion in Virginia's Public Square 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC www.shaunkenney.com [Source type: Original source]
In this vein, he considered Batista a "
U.S. puppet whose strings needed cutting."
[50]
.^ American military aid, although significant, played a secondary role in defeating the guerrilla movement.
.^ Castro had obtained the services of Colonel Alberto Bayo to train his men in guerrilla tactics.
^ By then breaking his guerrillas into small groups, Che hoped to cause the Bolivian army to disperse, placing themselves at the mercy of aggressive "hit and run" tactics.
^ The "July 26 Movement" provided Che with his advanced training in guerrilla warfare, enabling him to form a framework for the con- duct of future revolutions.
.^ To persevere through this to that joyful silence is to march naked across the desert.
^ During the arduous march their sole contact with the outside world existed through the high powered radio as Castro remained faithful in maintaining contact with his expedition.
.^ Castro had obtained the services of Colonel Alberto Bayo to train his men in guerrilla tactics.
^ So they didn't fire a shot, even those on the famous "armored train," that Guevara supposedly attacked and captured.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
[51] .^ His timetable called for inserting a nucleus of guerrillas into Peru by the end of 1967.
^ The end of Your BAsic Freedoms and Liberties is exactly what Obama and the Socialists, Marxists, and Communists in our government are up to, but they all call themselves Democrats.- Bachus tells city and county officials he's worried about socialists in Congress - Breaking News from The Birmingham News - al.com 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC blog.al.com [Source type: General]
^ All of Che's biographers address Colonel Bayo's influence on the young revolutionary.
[52]
Cuban Revolution
Invasion, warfare and Santa Clara
.^ Understanding the steps leading to Che's selection for his next revolution first requires an appreciation for Cuba's position in 1965 as the vanguard for the worldwide "wars of national liberation".
^ The actual campaign in Bolivia represents only the revolutionary "tip of the iceburg", portraying an aborted, ineffec- tive guerrilla war while masking years of planning and preparation by Che and his mentor in Cuba, Fidel Castro.
^ In January 1957, shortly after landing in Cuba aboard the yacht Granma with Fidel and Raul Castro, Che sent a letter to his discarded wife, Hilda Gadea.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
.^ If only they'd get out of the way.
^ Most military (though not all) and many right winged americans find it hard to come to that realization...though they know it's true.
^ Instead, the powers that be seem to think they can only reach out by conceding Conservative principles.- DOUG HAGIN ARCHIVED COLUMNS 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC doughagin.tripod.com [Source type: Original source]
[53] .^ I laid down on a grassy incline, looking up at the stars, feeling sorry for myself.
^ And Cuba's kulaks had guns, a few at first anyway, and put up a heroic resistance until the Kennedy-Khrushchev deal during the "Cuban Missile Crisis" finally starved them of supplies.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
^ During 25 months of combat Guevara proved himself under fire as an audacious, brilliant, rebel commander.
.^ The guerrilla force is the party in embryo.13 Debray supports Che's rejection of traditional Marxist doctrine.
^ Fidel Castro, after the aborted landing on Cuba's southeastern coast, escaped into the Sierra Maestras with only fifteen survivors.
^ His group was accidentally separated from the main guerrilla force.
.^ Llerena was also the contact with Castro's most famous publicity agent, the New York Times , Herbert Matthews.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
^ He and co-author Carol Crossed would love to see it in the New York Times, etc.
^ Writing in the New York Times this weekend, economics reporter David Leonhardt called Strapped, "a grim tale of one-sided generational warfare."- Shaun Kenney | Politics and Religion in Virginia's Public Square 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC www.shaunkenney.com [Source type: Original source]
The article presented a lasting, almost mythical image for Castro and the guerrillas.
.^ Pajamas Media » Will the Real Che Guevara Please Stand Up?- Pajamas Media » Will the Real Che Guevara Please Stand Up? 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: Original source]
Meanwhile, as supplies and morale diminished, and with an allergy to mosquito bites which resulted in agonizing walnut-sized cysts on his body,
[54] Guevara considered these "the most painful days of the war."
[55]
.^ In many respects, Guevara, rather than Castro, became the symbol of the international revolutionary movement.
^ In July 1957, Guevara was promoted to "Commandante", the highest rank in the rebel army, and awarded command of the second column of the guerrilla force.
^ He states in his book, Che Guevara on Guerrilla Warfare, that three fundamental conclusions were revealed in the Cuban revolution: 1) Popular Forces can win a war against an army.
[8] .^ What makes this worse is the nominal Catholic who read these articles will simply hold them up as an imprimatur for their dissent with Catholic teaching.- Shaun Kenney | Politics and Religion in Virginia's Public Square 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC www.shaunkenney.com [Source type: Original source]
^ We're talking about a picture of an unrepentant Marxist who is, reportedly, setting up an office for said presidential candidate.
^ They yawned as the evidence of predatory teachers came up: What is also different about the school cases is the level of secondary media coverage it has—or, in this case, hasn't—received.
[8] Moreover, Guevara established health clinics, workshops to teach military tactics, and a newspaper to disseminate information.
[56] .^ Time magazine notwithstanding, Fidel Castro -- and Fidel Castro alone -- was the "brains" of the Cuban Revolution.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
^ It was inevitable that Fidel Castro would begin to view his independent minded minister as a liability, both at home and abroad.
^ This command tells us two things: first, that we are imperfect and in need of change; second, that Christ can effect that change, if we would open ourselves to him and submit to Him.
[8]
.^ How can I expect judge Guevara to be impartial when he joined Fidel Castro in a mission to overthrow Cuba’s leader when he himself had never even been to Cuba.- Pajamas Media » Will the Real Che Guevara Please Stand Up? 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Fidel Castro, after the aborted landing on Cuba's southeastern coast, escaped into the Sierra Maestras with only fifteen survivors.
^ How that fate was avoided demands analysis of the various actions taken by both Che Guevara and Fidel Castro on one hand, and Bolivia and the United States on the other.
.^ From what I have heard, (1) Edd has been telling those who have been asking that he is not going to become Secretary of Education, yet (2) the Democrats seem to be hunting for a successor.- Shaun Kenney | Politics and Religion in Virginia's Public Square 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC www.shaunkenney.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Guevara made it a policy for his men to parade the families and friends of the executed before the blood, bone and brain spattered firing squad.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
^ Those US soldiers were punished for it, Guevara was praised, congratulated and rewarded for it.- Pajamas Media » Will the Real Che Guevara Please Stand Up? 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: Original source]
[57] .^ As a result, Che's guerrilla foco became little more than roving bandits, pur- sued by the authorities and feared by the citizenry.
[58] .^ Guevara was responsible for executions without trial, political imprisonments, and the like.
^ Now we are super-men guerrillas."48 From Guevara's perspective, his foco was achieving the propaganda effect necessary to convince the peasants that the revolution was gaining momentum.
^ The most fascinating aspect of Che Guevara's Bolivian campaign is the existance of four diaries outlining the day to day activities of the guerrillas.
[59]
.^ Understanding Che Guevara's concepts on guerrilla warfare requires, first, a review of the experiences that influenced his theories, primarily, the Cuban revolution.
^ On the contrary, Che admitted in his diary that they had become informers for the army.
^ Even the New York Times admits that the first two months of the Cuban Revolution saw 568 firing squad executions.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
[60] .^ Colin Glassey Castro’s victory over Batista is not such a big deal;the cuban army was corrupt,and terribly led by batistiano thugs chiosen for loyalty and not competence.- Pajamas Media » Will the Real Che Guevara Please Stand Up? 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: Original source]
[60] Upon Guerra's request that they "end his life quickly",
[60] Che stepped forward and shot him in the head, writing "The situation was uncomfortable for the people and for Eutimio so I ended the problem giving him a shot with a .32 pistol in the right side of the brain, with exit orifice in the right temporal [lobe]."
[61] His scientific notations and matter-of-fact description, suggested to one biographer a "remarkable detachment to violence" by that point in the war.
[61] Later, Guevara published a literary account of the incident entitled "Death of a Traitor", where he transfigured Eutimio's betrayal and pre-execution request that the revolution "take care of his children", into a "revolutionary
parable about redemption through sacrifice."
[61]
In his trademark olive-green military fatigues, 2 June 1959
.^ To get a really well balanced view of Che Guevara, read the English translation of his diary from the year or so in Africa.- Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Che Guevara: Hollywood’s Mass-Murdering Phenom 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC bighollywood.breitbart.com [Source type: General]
^ This dogmatic view of the revolution and his own role in it caused Guevara to overestimate his ability to fight the revolution without the support of the Bolivian communists.
^ During 25 months of combat Guevara proved himself under fire as an audacious, brilliant, rebel commander.
[62] His commanding officer
Fidel Castro has described Guevara as intelligent, daring, and an exemplary leader who "had great moral authority over his troops."
[63] Castro has further remarked that Guevara took too many risks, even having a "tendency toward foolhardiness."
[64] .^ I would support such action and I would sincerely hope that people don't stand for this behavior from Barack Obama.- Barack Obama Endorses Communist Punk Che Guevara : Conservative Blog: Urban Conservative 2.0 – Conservative News & Politics 10 February 2010 14:14 UTC www.urbanconservative.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Che's conduct during his baptisn of fire, while not heroic, was adequate under the extreme conditions of the one-sided battle.
^ King and Che by any means, merely to point out how ridiculous the "enemy-of-the-state two minutes of hate is") .
^ Permalink As for implying that the US government accepts it, as it flies over some state capital, has got to be one of the most stupid thinks I've read in a LONG time.
The guards didn't dare fire at him ... later they told me he made a great impression on them when they saw him run out with his pistol stuck in his belt, ignoring the danger, they didn't dare shoot."
[65]
.^ Cuban veteran of Castro's "July 26th Movement".
^ More people have died as a result of Chinese Communism, Cuban Communism, and Stalinism that any other single factor.
^ In a day and age when most people wouldn't recognize JFK from a picture, it's entirely plausible for a 2nd or 3rd generation Cuban American to not recognize a picture of Che Guevara.
.^ Che Guevara was ‘created’ through the United Fruit Co & CIA 1953 overthrow of the democratically elected Arbenz in Guatemala (while Che was living there).- Pajamas Media » Will the Real Che Guevara Please Stand Up? 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: Original source]
[66]
.^ "Guevara turned the tide in this bloody battle and whipped a Batista force of 3,000 men."- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
^ Guevara continued his attack on the USSR by criticizing its so-called peaceful coexistence policy towards the West.
^ That's who thought it up: The Prince’s Foundation says the idea for the mosque was generated by “local interest” and is currently standing by its plans.
Years later,
Major Larry Bockman of the
United States Marine Corps would analyze and describe Che's tactical appreciation of this battle as "brilliant."
[67] During this time Guevara also became an "expert" at leading hit and run tactics against Batista’s army, and then fading back into the countryside before the army could counterattack.
[68]
.^ Che Guevara committed many tactical blunders that led to his defeat, but, in the final analysis, his personality and ego prede- termined his fate in Bolivia.
.^ Che retained confidence in his guerrillas, remarking that the only potential deserter is one of Moises Guevara's recruits, Willy.59 As October began the guerrillas were forced to hide during the day and move only at night.
[69] .^ Here's another eye-witness account regarding Che's famous "invasion" of las Villas Province shortly before the famous "battle" of Santa Clara.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
^ These operated against Batista in the Escambray mountains of Las Villas province.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
.^ His insistence on commanding all aspects of the revolution led him to reject the communist leader, Monje's demands for control of the revolution.
^ Despite Che's many mistakes, both in planning and execution, those who engineered his defeat deserve credit for exploiting Guevara's tactical errors, thus denying him victory.
^ What he did in terms of tactics isn't really any different from any insurrectionists have done, including George Washington and all of those who fought under him...
[69] .^ The one that describes his most famous military exploit is referred to as "The Battle of Santa Clara," which took place in December 1958.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
^ Che's column fought the final, decisive battle of the revolution at Santa Clara in the central plains of Cuba.
^ To commemorate this historic military engagement, Castro has built a Che Guevara museum in Santa Clara.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
[70][71] .^ Che's column fought the final, decisive battle of the revolution at Santa Clara in the central plains of Cuba.
^ Those great men gave us this great nation, now we must take up the fight in our time.- DOUG HAGIN ARCHIVED COLUMNS 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC doughagin.tripod.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ He states in his book, Che Guevara on Guerrilla Warfare, that three fundamental conclusions were revealed in the Cuban revolution: 1) Popular Forces can win a war against an army.
^ Che, despite the realization that his base was compromised, chose to remain at the site rather than move elsewhere.
^ He remained strangely quiet through- out the summer, when publicizing Che's presence in Bolivia might have achieved a propaganda victory for the beleaguered guerrillas.
[72]
.^ I've yet to see Fox News report on a confederate flag, let alone a KKK one, at a McCain office; official or 'volunteer'.
^ During the first phase, the foco is molded into an effective fighting force.
^ One of the first portrayals of Guevara by American press.
At 3 am on January 1, 1959, upon learning that his generals were negotiating a separate peace with Guevara,
Fulgencio Batista boarded a plane in Havana and fled for the
Dominican Republic, along with an amassed "fortune of more than $ 300,000,000 through graft and payoffs."
[73] The following day on January 2, Guevara entered
Havana to take final control of the capitol.
[74] .^ The city fell to Che Guevara on New Year's Day, 1959.
^ However, it would behoove him to ensure that the flag gets taken down and that he renounces any affinity for Che and the Fidel Castro regime.
^ Fidel Castro, after the aborted landing on Cuba's southeastern coast, escaped into the Sierra Maestras with only fifteen survivors.
[75] .^ Very few people remained -- most had left not because of the new pressure for economic development but because of decades of deindustrialization and white flight in the surrounding areas.
^ Provides excellent background material on Bolivia's political, economic, social, and military evolution.
^ It explains why political liberals and Libertarians (in the American context), while disagreeing on economic issues, unite on social ones.
[76] .^ Understanding Che Guevara's concepts on guerrilla warfare requires, first, a review of the experiences that influenced his theories, primarily, the Cuban revolution.
^ Che's guerrilla warfare concepts, when applied to Bolivia, did not mesh with the realities of existing circumstances.
^ Bayo's instruction profoundly affected Che's philosophy of guerrilla warfare.
[77]
.^ After rising to power in Fidel Castro's revolutionary government, Che Guevara attained international status as a spokesman for radical social progress.
^ Any analysis of Che Guevara's impact on the Cuban revolution- ary government must first address the relationship between him and Fidel Castro.
^ Simply put, Che was a purist where Fidel was a realist; Che was rigid, where Fidel was flexible or erratic; Che was utopian, where Fidel was worldly.3 These dissimilarities influenced many of the events involving Che Guevara's role as ideological leader in Cuba's revolutionary govern- ment.
[78] .^ Cuban veteran of Castro's "July 26th Movement".
^ Another theory behind Castro's abandonment of Che involves the underlying issue of personal problems between the two men.
^ The funds for these bribes derived mostly from Fidel's snookering of Batista's wealthy political opponents, convincing them that he was a "patriotic Cuban, a democrat," and that they should join, or at least help fund, his 26th of July Movement in order to bring democracy and prosperity to Cuba.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
[81] .^ A young, impressionable Ernesto “Che” Guevara de la Serna, born of middle class roots, planned to become a doctor, not a revolutionary.- Pajamas Media » The True Story of Che 10 February 2010 14:14 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: General]
^ Apprezzo la lettera di Aleida Guevara nel ricordo del padre.- Blog di Beppe Grillo - La figlia del Che 6 February 2010 12:22 UTC www.beppegrillo.it [Source type: Academic]
^ Laura Mae 8 Burgess, born 21 Nov 1899 in Todmorden, East York, Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada; died 18 Sep 1985 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.- Burgess Family Tree @ www.sandisullivan.com 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC www.sandisullivan.com [Source type: General]
[82]
La Cabaña, land reform, and literacy
.^ He met like-minded souls in Fidel and Raul Castro, and together they began plotting the overthrow of General Fulgencio Batista’s government in Cuba.- Pajamas Media » The True Story of Che 10 February 2010 14:14 UTC pajamasmedia.com [Source type: General]
^ So in a massive "relocation" campaign reminiscent of the one Spanish General Valerinao "The Butcher" Weyler carried out against Cubans during their war of independence at the turn of the century, Castro's Soviet-trained armed forces ripped hundreds of thousands of rural Cubans from their ancestral homes at gunpoint and herded them into concentration camps on the opposite side of Cuba.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
^ Two years earlier in the Sierra, Castro had ordered Che to take command over a guerrilla faction led by a fellow 26th of July Movement rebel named Jorge Sotus, who had been operating in an area north of the area where Fidel and Che were and had actually been confronting and fighting Batista's army.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
[83] .^ McDonnell, on the other hand, says he sees no contradictions between his Catholic beliefs and supporting the death penalty.- Shaun Kenney | Politics and Religion in Virginia's Public Square 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC www.shaunkenney.com [Source type: Original source]
^ If any conservative candidate supports the Death Penalty, its not an aspect of them I would take into consideration.- Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Che Guevara: Hollywood’s Mass-Murdering Phenom 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC bighollywood.breitbart.com [Source type: General]
^ You can compare this to the adjoining FLS article where Attorney General-elect Bob McDonnell is grilled for his support of the death penalty.- Shaun Kenney | Politics and Religion in Virginia's Public Square 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC www.shaunkenney.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ Others would say it's only those in charge of government can make just war determinations, so we must not question our leaders' judgements on these matters.
^ Guevara's theories captured the imagination of revolutionaries world- wide and has directly impacted upon their attempts to fight wars of national liberation.
According to the Cuban Ministry of Justice, this latter extension was supported by the majority of the population, and followed the same procedure as those in the
Nuremberg Trials held by the
Allies after World War II.
[84]
.^ But he found a way for Che to earn his keep and stay of trouble in Cuba by assigning him as commander of La Cabana, the fortress where political prisoners were held and killed.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
^ One month after Batista's fall from power, Castro declared through official decree that Che was a Cuban by birth.
^ First he assigned him to be commander of Havana's La Cabana fortress, which Che promptly converted to a prison and killing field.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
[85] .^ Former officer in the Spanish Republican Army who trained Castro's guerrillas, including Che, in Mexico in preparation for the Cuban insurgency against Batista.
^ Popular forces did win the war against an army; the revolutionary situation that led to victory was created by Fidel Castro without the direction of an established communist party, and the war was won in Cuba's rural areas.
^ Sun Tzu's writings, The Art of War, establish the doctrine followed by all revolutionaries since: deception, flexibility, and concentration against the enemy's weakest point.
[86] .^ Ernesto Guevara de la Serna's achievements fall far below those of the three men mentioned above.
^ I suppose those who have no issue with the Butcher's of la Cabaña's image anywhere would think differently, had it been your father or your brother or your grandfather whose life had been taken by Che Guevara.
^ Tania had met Che in East Germany while serving as his interpreter during one of his visits in 1960.6 She became enthralled with Che and his revolutionary ideas.
[9] On some occasions the penalty delivered by the tribunal was death by
firing squad.
[87] .^ A sitting Chief Justice took the law into his own hands.
^ If any conservative candidate supports the Death Penalty, its not an aspect of them I would take into consideration.- Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Che Guevara: Hollywood’s Mass-Murdering Phenom 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC bighollywood.breitbart.com [Source type: General]
^ Following the script originated in Mexico ten years earlier, Che ordered his agents to purchase a farm where the foco could train and organize.
[88] Biographers note that in January 1959, the Cuban public was in a "lynching mood",
[89] and point to a survey at the time showing 93% public approval for the tribunal process.
[9] With 20,000 Cubans estimated to have been killed at the hands of Batista's collaborators,
[90] and many of those sentenced to death accused of
torture and physical atrocities,
[9] the newly empowered government carried out executions "without respect for
due process."
[91] Although the exact numbers differ, it is estimated that several hundred people were executed during this time.
[92]
Conflicting views exist of Guevara's delight towards the executions at La Cabaña. Some exiled opposition biographers report that he relished the rituals of the firing squad, and organized them with gusto.
[91] .^ McDonnell, on the other hand, says he sees no contradictions between his Catholic beliefs and supporting the death penalty.- Shaun Kenney | Politics and Religion in Virginia's Public Square 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC www.shaunkenney.com [Source type: Original source]
^ A man hears it differently: "It's really essential when you are talking about rights to talk about responsibilities because it's got to be the counterpoint so that people who are on the other side don't think you have the rights to everything but you don't have any responsibilities."
^ Since Che Guevara, above all else, was controversial, sources representing widely different perspectives of the man and his life were readily available.
.^ They are interested only in partisan political advantage: Unfortunately, there are some in the church who would reduce the faith to pious simplicities and partisan political slogans .
[91] This is further confirmed by a February 5, 1959, letter to Luis Paredes López in
Buenos Aires where Guevara states unequivocally "The executions by firing squads are not only a necessity for the people of Cuba, but also an imposition of the people."
[93].^ Understanding the foco theory of revolution demands an analysis of the evolution of revolutionary thought expounded by others before and after Che Guevara.
.^ No one will talk about it.
^ Understanding Che Guevara's concepts on guerrilla warfare requires, first, a review of the experiences that influenced his theories, primarily, the Cuban revolution.
^ It is almost like he is oblivious to the fact that people like Che Guevara still actually exist in this world.
During this speech, he declared that the main concern of the new Cuban government was "the social justice that
land redistribution brings about."
[94] A few months later on May 17, 1959, the
Agrarian Reform Law called on and crafted by Che Guevara went into effect, limiting the size of all farms to 1,000 acres.
.^ If any states have been run into the ground, these are the ones.- Bachus tells city and county officials he's worried about socialists in Congress - Breaking News from The Birmingham News - al.com 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC blog.al.com [Source type: General]
^ If you think AL is being run so poorly, I suggest you move to California, New York, Illinois, Michigan, or Arizona where these states have historically been governed predominantly by democrats and unions for decades.- Bachus tells city and county officials he's worried about socialists in Congress - Breaking News from The Birmingham News - al.com 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC blog.al.com [Source type: General]
[95] .^ A Sugar plantation named Central Macareno near Cienfuegos had been recently stolen from its American owners (not that most Sugar plantations in Cuba were American-owned as leftist mythology holds.- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
[96]
.^ Declared a communist by the new regime, Guevara managed to arrange safe conduct out of the country and departed Guatemala on a train bound for Mexico City.14 Guatemala marked a transition in the life of Che Guevara.
^ Chapter V PRELUDE TO BOLIVIA Che returned to Cuba in March 1965 following a three month trip that included visits to the United Nations and Africa.
.^ Cuban veteran of Castro's "July 26th Movement".
^ Che Guevara wanted to destroy the United States.
^ Arizona has has had Republican U. S. Senators for quite some time, going back to before Barry Goldwater was the Fiscal Conservative U. S. Senator from Arizona, and he ran for President of the United States in 1964.- Bachus tells city and county officials he's worried about socialists in Congress - Breaking News from The Birmingham News - al.com 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC blog.al.com [Source type: General]
[97] He spent 12 days in Japan (July 15–27), participating in negotiations aimed at expanding Cuba's trade relations with that nation.
.^ The city fell to Che Guevara on New Year's Day, 1959.
Guevara was "really shocked" at what he witnessed and by his visit to a hospital where A-bomb survivors were being treated.
[98]
.^ At a meeting with Castro shortly after returning to Havana in 1965, Che proposed that Cuba follow a foreign policy in- dependent from Moscow.
^ Castro may have real- ized that a dead Guevara would be more valuable to Cuba and a threat to the U.S. and its allies than he was alive.
^ Does give good analysis of political framework in Cuba following Castro's revolution.
.^ Simply put, our government operates on a corrupt system of bribery........special interests have special access to congress, and the executive branch, to the detriment of our pocketbooks.- Barack Obama Endorses Communist Punk Che Guevara : Conservative Blog: Urban Conservative 2.0 – Conservative News & Politics 10 February 2010 14:14 UTC www.urbanconservative.com [Source type: Original source]
At this point the affected wealthy cattlemen of
Camagüey mounted a campaign against the land redistributions, and enlisted the newly disaffected rebel leader
Huber Matos, who along with the anti-Communist wing of the 26th of July Movement, joined them in denouncing the "Communist encroachment."
[99] During this time
Dominican dictator
Rafael Trujillo was offering assistance to the "Anti-Communist Legion of the Caribbean" who was training in the Dominican Republic.
.^ Castro had started a feud with the Chinese, accusing them of plotting to subvert the Cuban army by distributing anti-Soviet literature to the Cuban troops.
^ Right Wing Launches Erroneous Attacks on Obama - Liberal Values - Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought Rosemary's Thoughts linked with A collection of Military News...
[99]
.^ Coco, the Cuban guerrilla who had not accompanied Che on the march, brought the group into the camp, only to lose two through desertion in early March.
.^ Jorge Castaneda in his Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara cannot resist giving Che some credit for "Imperialism's First Defeat."- http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2054 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC www.discoverthenetworks.org [Source type: General]
^ Post a comment Posted by multifarious on 04/09/09 at 7:02PM 1 person discharging 98 rounds in under one minute killing 13 people.- Bachus tells city and county officials he's worried about socialists in Congress - Breaking News from The Birmingham News - al.com 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC blog.al.com [Source type: General]
^ Post a comment Posted by multifarious on 04/09/09 at 7:05PM 1 person discharging 98 rounds in one minute killing 13 people...now THAT'S a scary thought.- Bachus tells city and county officials he's worried about socialists in Congress - Breaking News from The Birmingham News - al.com 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC blog.al.com [Source type: General]
.^ James - December 16th, 2009 at 11:25 pm My wife knew Che, Fidel, Raoul, Camillo and all the leaders of the Cuban Revolution.- Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Che Guevara: Hollywood’s Mass-Murdering Phenom 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC bighollywood.breitbart.com [Source type: General]
^ He now joined Fidel and Raul Castro as one of the principal leaders of the revolution.
^ Then, he lets the facts speak for themselves: "I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States," said Lee.
[100] It was at the memorial service that
Alberto Korda took the famous photograph of Guevara, now known as
Guerrillero Heroico.
[101]
.^ After rising to power in Fidel Castro's revolutionary government, Che Guevara attained international status as a spokesman for radical social progress.
^ In many respects, Guevara, rather than Castro, became the symbol of the international revolutionary movement.
^ Castro may have real- ized that a dead Guevara would be more valuable to Cuba and a threat to the U.S. and its allies than he was alive.
.^ In October 1959, Castro named him director of the Industrial Department of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA); a month later Che also assumed duties as the president of the National Bank of Cuba.
^ So why do expect the same government that refuses to enforce today’s border and immigration laws to enforce new ones?- DOUG HAGIN ARCHIVED COLUMNS 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC doughagin.tripod.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Here we go again, we are listening to our government present us with this new law and that new law.- DOUG HAGIN ARCHIVED COLUMNS 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC doughagin.tripod.com [Source type: Original source]
[96] .^ Commanded by Major Ralph ("Pappy") Shelton, the MTT set up a training camp near Santa Cruz.
^ To know that he was not outraged by the Che Guevara/Cuban flag in his campaign office, but rather dismissed it as "not under his control".- Barack Obama Endorses Communist Punk Che Guevara : Conservative Blog: Urban Conservative 2.0 – Conservative News & Politics 10 February 2010 14:14 UTC www.urbanconservative.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Mildred was her own person, a collector of clippings, someone for whom family was the centre of her life and a woman used to hard work.- Burgess Family Tree @ www.sandisullivan.com 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC www.sandisullivan.com [Source type: General]
.^ In his own words, "I was born in Argentina, I fought in Cuba, and I began to be a revolutionary in Guatemala."12 When he arrived in Guatemala City, Jacobo Arbeniz, the president, had completed the distribution of a vast amount of land formerly owned by the country's landowners, including 11,000 acres belonging to the United Fruit Company.
[96] Months later, as retaliation,
U.S President Dwight D. Eisenhower sharply reduced the import of Cuban sugar (Cuba’s main cash crop), thus leading Guevara on July 10, 1960, to address over 100,000 workers in front of the
Presidential Palace at a rally called to denounce U.S. "economic aggression."
[102]
Guevara was like a father to me ... he educated me. He taught me to think. He taught me the most beautiful thing which is to be human.
Urbano
(aka Leonardo Tamayo),
fought with Che in Cuba and Bolivia
[103]
.^ Young woman of Argentine-German nationality who was Guevara's primary agent in Bolivia.
^ One of Che's biographers, Richard Harris, proposes that this insistence on the rural vice urban base for guerrilla operations reveals the primary descrepancy in Guevara's theories.
.^ And your comments on Cuba's literacy rates and universal healthcare only prove your myopia.
^ Eventhough Cuba has the worlds highest literacy rate and universal healthcare.
[104] .^ Today, the training of servers and bartenders is largely not to teach them quality, but to teach them to read scripted greetings and to practice suggestive selling.- DOUG HAGIN ARCHIVED COLUMNS 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC doughagin.tripod.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Maybe it's because she doesn't to be "outed" because she feared losing her job teaching religious education.
^ The New York times reports that Modblogging has arrived: A handful of companies have begun offering software that allows people to read and write blogs on cellular phones.
Unlike many of Guevara's later economic initiatives, this campaign was "a remarkable success."
[104] By the completion of the campaign, 707,212 adults were taught to read and write, raising the national literacy rate to 96 %.
[104]
The "New Man", Bay of Pigs and Missile Crisis
.^ One month after Batista's fall from power, Castro declared through official decree that Che was a Cuban by birth.
^ Analyzes Che Guevara's rise to power and Bolivia failure.
^ Cuba's survival depended upon the USSR's contin- ued economic support and Che's verbal assaults on the financiers in Moscow placed Fidel in an untenable position.
[102]
As a consequence of his new position, it was now Guevara's duty to sign the Cuban currency, which per custom would bear his signature.
.^ All of the guerrillas, including Che, used one or more code names while operating in Bolivia.
^ Che did not bravely face his killers like a man, but rather begged them to spare him because he was "more useful to them alive than dead".- Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Che Guevara: Hollywood’s Mass-Murdering Phenom 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC bighollywood.breitbart.com [Source type: General]
[105] .^ In many respects, Guevara, rather than Castro, became the symbol of the international revolutionary movement.
^ Maybe I'd be more ignorant about this if I didn't have many Cuban friends, I don't know.- Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Che Guevara: Hollywood’s Mass-Murdering Phenom 19 January 2010 9:49 UTC bighollywood.breitbart.com [Source type: General]
[105] .^ Il fatto che se oggi Che Guevara fosse "vivo" sarebbe gi statto trucidato.......sopratutto dai suoi stessi "ammiratori".- Blog di Beppe Grillo - La figlia del Che 6 February 2010 12:22 UTC www.beppegrillo.it [Source type: Academic]
^ The most fascinating aspect of Che Guevara's Bolivian campaign is the existance of four diaries outlining the day to day activities of the guerrillas.
^ However, an impartial analysis in the same manner of Che Guevara's campaign provides an accurate portrayal of the situation in Bolivia at that time.
[106].^ One of the first portrayals of Guevara by American press.
^ I'd like to see corporate responsibility conceptualize as providing for this nation first before they provide to shareholders & C.E.O.'s I'd like to see an end to this costly war in Iraq, and provide care to our Veterans.- Barack Obama Endorses Communist Punk Che Guevara : Conservative Blog: Urban Conservative 2.0 – Conservative News & Politics 10 February 2010 14:14 UTC www.urbanconservative.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Guevara's theories captured the imagination of revolutionaries world- wide and has directly impacted upon their attempts to fight wars of national liberation.
He viewed
capitalism as a "contest among wolves" where "one can only win at the cost of others," and thus desired to see the creation of a "new man and woman."
[108] Guevara continually stressed that a
socialist economy in itself is not "worth the effort, sacrifice, and risks of war and destruction" if it ends up encouraging "
greed and individual ambition at the expense
collective spirit."
[109] A primary goal of Guevara's thus became to reform "individual consciousness" and values to produce better workers and citizens.
[109] .^ Click here to view image INTRODUCTION ENDNOTES 1"Man In the News", New York Times, Dec 12, 1964.
[109] In describing this new method of "development", Guevara stated:
.
.^ Pluss has not only delved into the neo-Nazi movement, he also has the experience of delving into the reaction of leftist groups and understanding the tension between arch-socialists and neo-Nazis.- Shaun Kenney | Politics and Religion in Virginia's Public Square 17 September 2009 3:03 UTC www.shaunkenney.com [Source type: Original source]
An array of notable individuals have viewed Che Guevara as a hero;
[199] for example,
Nelson Mandela referred to him as "an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom"
[165] while
Jean-Paul Sartre described him as "not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age."
[200] Others who expressed their admiration include authors
Graham Greene who remarked that Che "represented the idea of gallantry, chivalry, and adventure"
[201], and
Susan Sontag who expounded that "(Che's) goal was nothing less than the cause of humanity itself."
[202] In the black community, philosopher
Frantz Fanon professed Guevara to be "the world symbol of the possibilities of one man"
[203], while
Black Panther Party head
Stokely Carmichael eulogized that "Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us."
[204] Praise has been reflected throughout the political spectrum, with the
anarcho-capitalist /
libertarian theorist
Murray Rothbard extolling Guevara as a "heroic figure", lamenting after his death that "more than any man of our epoch or even of our century, (Che) was the living embodiment of the principle of revolution",
[205] while journalist
Christopher Hitchens commented that "[Che's] death meant a lot to me and countless like me at the time, he was a role model, albeit an impossible one for us
bourgeois romantics insofar as he went and did what revolutionaries were meant to do — fought and died for his beliefs."
[206] Guevara remains a beloved national hero to many in Cuba, where his image adorns the $3
Cuban Peso and school children begin each morning by pledging "We will be like Che."
[207] In his native homeland of Argentina, where high schools bear his name,
[208] numerous Che museums dot the country, which in 2008 unveiled a 12 foot bronze statue of him in his birth city of Rosario.
[209] Additionally, Guevara has been
sanctified by some Bolivian
campesinos[210] as "
Saint Ernesto", to whom they pray for assistance.
[211]
Conversely, Jacobo Machover, an exiled opposition author, dismisses the hero-worshipping and portrays him as a ruthless executioner.
[212] .^ America and our friends are in a conflict that demands much of us.
^ According to some reports I've picked up over the last year or so, Che didn't think much of other people who had darker skin than his.
[213] In an assessment of Guevara,
British historian
Hugh Thomas acknowledge's that Che was a "brave, sincere and determined man who was also obstinate, narrow, and dogmatic."
[214] At the end of his life, according to Thomas, "he seems to have become convinced of the virtues of violence for its own sake", while "his influence over
Castro for good or evil" grew after his death, as Fidel took up many of his views. In Thomas' assessment "as in the case of
Martí, or
Lawrence of Arabia, failure has brightened, not dimmed the legend."
[214] Alvaro Vargas Llosa of
The Independent Institute has hypothesized that Guevara’s contemporary followers "delude themselves by clinging to a myth", while describing Guevara as "Marxist
Puritan" who employed his rigid power to suppress dissent, while also operating as a "cold-blooded killing machine".
[213] Llosa has also accused Guevara's "fanatical disposition" as being the linchpin of the "Sovietization" of the Cuban revolution, speculating that he possessed a "total subordination of reality to blind ideological orthodoxy."
[213] Guevara remains a hated figure amongst many in the
Cuban exile and
Cuban-American community of the United States, who view him with animosity as "the butcher of
La Cabaña."
[215]
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