Ernesto Che Guevara

[Azzurri]

Liberator? Oppressor? Murderer? Freedom fighter? Tell me...








By the way, it makes me laugh that thousands of (young) Americans who are scared senseless of anything even resembling communism wear his image. How he'd have hated that.

 

[Tramps_mate]

Hero..

 

[davidloach]

 

[The Cowboy]

Don't know enough to call it either way, but The Motorcycle Diaries was ace.

 

[ToffeeDoug]

Hero I think, but certainly ruthless, signing the execution orders on leaders of the old regime in Cuba. Strangely, he had little interest in politics until well into his 20s, having been devoted to his medical studies before. He had an Irish maternal grandmother.

I've visited his mausoleum in Cuba, quite an experience.

 

[AndyC]

A committed believer in his ideals, and prepared to die for what he believed in.
The following he enjoyed and the reverence in which he is still held is testament to those ideals if not some of his methodology.
Allegedly, his last words before being executed were, "shoot you coward, you are only killing a man." Meaning they could kill him, but not his ideals and the socialist movement in Cuba and elsewhere that he had nurtured, led and tried to take to other countries.

 

[Kurt.]

I think we should buy him before spurs put a bid in...... Bobby and the board should walk if we don't get him.

 

[AndyC]

Don't know enough to call it either way, but The Motorcycle Diaries was ace.

A great movie and it showed the hardships of the South American people that formulated his passionate hatred of imperialist capitalism.

 

[Paulie]

Definitely a hero in my opinion. Him and Castro both overthrew the Batista regime which was corrupt and in bed with the yanks. Both from well to do families and could have picked an easier route in life but both fought for what they believed in. Don't personally think socialism works to this extreme like but the people have health-care, education, accommodation and food.

 

[Chang Elephant]

Who was better tho, Che or Karl Popper ?

 

[ToffeeDoug]

A committed believer in his ideals, and prepared to die for what he believed in.
The following he enjoyed and the reverence in which he is still held is testament to those ideals if not some of his methodology.
Allegedly, his last words before being executed were, "shoot you coward, you are only killing a man." Meaning they could kill him, but not his ideals and the socialist movement in Cuba and elsewhere that he had nurtured, led and tried to take to other countries.

He tried to export revolution to the Congo and to Bolivia but with little success and without much support from Fidel who tried to talk him out of it and get him to stay in Cuba. Che even renounced his honorary Cuban citizenship before leaving for Congo in the mid-60s to show that he wanted international revolution beyond single countries.

 

[AndyC]

He tried to export revolution to the Congo and to Bolivia but with little success and without much support from Fidel who tried to talk him out of it and get him to stay in Cuba. Che even renounced his honorary Cuban citizenship before leaving for Congo in the mid-60s to show that he wanted international revolution beyond single countries.

His Bolivian diary is an incredible read in my opinion. Despite the incredible odds against him and any chance of success, he and his hardy band of followers kept trying to encourage the local people to stand up against the capitalist system imposed by a U.S. backed government. It was a campaign doomed to failure right from the outset and the question remains whether Che ultimately sacrificed himself, maybe sub-consciously, to highlight the struggle.

 

[wm02]

I imagine his last meal was cheese on toast and voted accordingly

 

[ilikecheese]

Heard he loved pineapple on his pizza. Big yes here.

 

[The Equaliser]

Can he run the channels ?