Che was the man! He will always be remembered as one of a very few heroes of the modern world who sacrificed his life in pursuit of one of the greatest causes in history: the freedom from tyranny and oppression!

He could have stayed in Havana with Fidel and languished in the glory and adulation bestowed upon a successful revolutionary movement, which had removed another of the many despots, Batista, who himself had been aided and abetted by the CIA and in turn had unjustly murdered and executed may thousands of innocent people during his reign of terror in Cuba.

Long Live Che Guevara!

Dear Cuphandle..

I hate to break this sad news to you but Che died in a hail of bullets ..gunned down by the rough end of "If you live by the gun...you will die by the gun"...

He was a killer.. who did some nice things.. gee..even Pablo Escobar, Colubian drug lord did 'nice things'....he built hospitals.. churches.. soccar pitches.. helped the poor..

but we all know what funded it right ?

Guevara .. an atheist communist/socialist ?

Why did he bother ? If someone asked him "What is life all about"? he would have to admit.. "Hmmmmm.. let me think about that... .... err.. Ah..I know.. REVOLUTION yes...thats IT!".......

O -kay...but what next?

I've yet to see a 'corrupt capitlaist tyrant' replaced by a "Noble and Pure Revolutionary Council"..but I HAVE seen a Pol Pot... a Stalin.. a Mao.. and the uncountable corpses prophetically cry out against them from the grave..

So.. given that I see no hope of any human government being much better than the next..... is it any wonder I point to Christ as the solution to mankinds problem ? I say 'problem' singular, because it is my opinion that alienation from God is the root of all evil.
When "self" rules a person...that person rules for 'self'....
When Christ rules them.... they rule for others

"When "self" rules a person...that person rules for 'self'....
When Christ rules them.... they rule for others"

I find that comment fascinating David, considering your dismissive tone when talking about socialism. Considering capitalism itself relies upon a 'look after number 1' attitude and socialism at its ideal is about 'looking after everybody', shouldn't you be a socialist?

Cuphandle: "He could have stayed in Havana with Fidel and languished in the glory and adulation bestowed upon a successful revolutionary movement..."

Successful revolutionary movement? You mean the communist takeover that transformed Cuba into a mini-USSR with sun?

Che was a self-proclaimed murderer.

According to Peruvian historian Alvaro Vargas:

"In January 1957, as his diary from the Sierra Maestra indicates, Guevara shot Eutimio Guerra because he suspected him of passing on information: “I ended the problem with a .32 caliber pistol, in the right side of his brain.... His belongings were now mine.” Later he shot Aristidio, a peasant who expressed the desire to leave whenever the rebels moved on…

But the “cold-blooded killing machine” did not show the full extent of his rigor until, immediately after the collapse of the Batista regime, Castro put him in charge of La Cabaña prison…

Javier Arzuaga, the Basque chaplain who gave comfort to those sentenced to die and personally witnessed dozens of executions, spoke to me recently from his home in Puerto Rico...:

there were about eight hundred prisoners in a space fit for no more than three hundred: former Batista military and police personnel, some journalists, a few businessmen and merchants. The revolutionary tribunal was made of militiamen. Che Guevara presided over the appellate court. He never overturned a sentence… After I left in May, they executed many more, but I personally witnessed fifty-five executions… I pleaded many times with Che on behalf of prisoners. I remember especially the case of Ariel Lima, a young boy. Che did not budge...."

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1535

A true humanitarian.

I'm with you cuphandle !
Long Live the memory of Che Guevarra
He was an idealist liberator of workers from their oppressors and his detractors will try as they might to dampen the worldwide admiration him by young people who look for inspiration against present day oppression .
The right wing ratbags and god botherers have not and will not succeed...As time passes, Che Guevarra becomes an Argentinian reincarnation of our own Ned Kelly

Viva Che Guevarra

Who really gives a damn about Che.
He has become a highly mythologized and hence entirely fake figure.
And whatever nasty things that he did, or authorized, pale into insignificance by comparison to those perpetrated and authorised by the pin up wonder-boy of the right, Ronald Reagan.

And those done by the American supported Batista thugs that mis-ruled Cuba prior to the revolution.

Even more so as there is an exercise in group nostaliga going on in the USA which elevates the "gipper" to some kind of saintly hero---an inspiration for all the "freedom" mongers---those who pretend to bring "freedom" to Iraq via shock and awe and wall to wall lies.

By contrast his murderous record speaks for itself. Once again.

1. http://www.psychohistory.com/reagan/rcontent.htm

Meanwhile I came across some publicity for a soon to be released new book which seems very interesting. And which is a thorough going critique of the neo-CON-"servative" wall to wall lies machine.

Check out WHAT ORWELL DIDNT KNOW on your Google.