“The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind!…Against those hyenas (Americans) there is no option but extermination!” (Che Guevara, 1962.)
“If the nuclear missiles had remained (in Cuba) we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City. To establish socialism rivers of blood must flow. The victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!” (Che Guevara, 1962.)
“My mom loves Che Guevara. Her dog is named Che,” ([highlight=yellow]U.S. Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr,[/highlight] New York Post, April, 15, 2020.)
“She (Ethel Kennedy) had a very good relationship with Fidel Castro,” RFK Jr. said, noting that she met the controversial Cuban president and revolutionary, who died in 2016, several times in Cuba.
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Fifty-six years ago this week, Ernesto "Che" Guevara got a major dose of his own medicine. A day after his capture by U.S.-trained Bolivian rangers, he was declared a murderer, stood against a wall and shot. If the saying "What goes around comes around" ever fit, it's here.
[highlight=yellow]"When you saw the beaming look on Che's face as his victims were tied to the stake and blasted apart by the firing squad," said a former Cuban political prisoner to this writer, "you saw there was something seriously, seriously wrong with Che Guevara." [/highlight]
As commander of the La Cabana execution yard, Che often shattered the skull of the condemned man (or boy) by firing the coup de grace himself. When other duties tore him away from his beloved execution yard, he consoled himself by viewing the slaughter. Che's second-story office in La Cabana had a section of wall torn out so he could watch his darling firing-squads at work.
Even as a youth, Ernesto Guevara's writings revealed a serious mental illness. "My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any vencido that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!" This passage is from Ernesto Guevara's famous Motorcycle Diaries, though Robert Redford somehow overlooked it while producing his heart-warming movie.
The Spanish word vencido, by the way, translates into "defeated" or "surrendered." And indeed, the "acrid odor of gunpowder and blood" very, very rarely reached Guevara's nostrils from anything properly describable as combat. It mostly came from the close-range murders of unarmed and defenseless men (and boys.) Carlos Machado was 15 years old in 1963 when the bullets from the firing squad shattered his body. His twin brother and father collapsed beside Carlos from the same volley. All had resisted Castro and Che's theft of their humble family farm, all refused blindfolds and all died sneering at their Communist murderers, as did thousands of their valiant countrymen.."Viva Cuba Libre! Viva Cristo Rey! Abajo Comunismo!" "The defiant yells would make the walls of La Cabana prison tremble," wrote eyewitness to the slaughter, Armando Valladares.
The one genuine accomplishment in Che Guevara's life was the mass-murder of defenseless men and boys. Under his own gun dozens died. Under his orders thousands crumpled. At everything else Che Guevara failed abysmally, even comically.
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Che's image is particularly ubiquitous on college campuses. But in the wrong places. He belongs in the marketing, PR and advertising departments. His lessons and history are fascinating and valuable, but only in light of P.T. Barnum. “One born every minute,” Mr. Barnum? If only you'd lived to see the Che phenomenon. Actually, ten are born every second.
