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Home Front: Culture Wars
Che Guevara: Still dead after all these years
2007-10-06
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia - Fidel Castro insists Ernesto "Che" Guevara could never have been taken prisoner 40 years ago if his gun hadn't malfunctioned. But the retired Bolivian general who led the mission to capture him says the Argentine revolutionary was hardly a heroic figure in his final moments.

The man that Gen. Gary Prado remembers — sad, sick, hungry, dressed in rags and alone in the jungle — simply dropped his gun and surrendered, saying, "Don't shoot, I'm Che."

"He wasn't the figure of the heroic guerrilla," Prado recalled in an interview with The Associated Press Thursday night.
Posted by:Seafarious

#10  OMG! Che-Mart rocks! Thanks for the link.
Posted by: ArmyLife   2007-10-06 15:27  

#9  Some time ago there was a nostalgia type concert on the local PBS TV station in which Eric Burdon of the old rock group The Animals appeared wearing a Che T-shirt. His voice was gone, his hair was short and graying and he was fat. It was pathetic. I still think some of the old Animal songs were great but I couldn't take seeing Eric this way. I changed the channel.
Posted by: Abu Uluque6305   2007-10-06 13:36  

#8  #7 I personally like to celerate Che with my favorite T-shirt:

Do you know Che-Mart? From the folks who brought you Communists for Kerry & The People's Cube.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2007-10-06 13:33  

#7  I personally like to celerate Che with my favorite T-shirt:

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

or a nice poster:

Che is dead. Get over it.

Sorry.... should have resized that!
Posted by: ArmyLife   2007-10-06 13:26  

#6  Ima got me a new sig....

Don't shoot, I'm Che
Posted by: Thomas Woof   2007-10-06 12:05  

#5  The Real Che Was No T-Shirt Idol, As Cuban-American Author Finds

Fidel's Executioner

Humberto Fontova Archives

The real Che

The Truth About Che Guevara

plus

LYING FOR FIDEL

Fidel Castro and Herbert Matthews, 1

Monster
Posted by: anonymous5089   2007-10-06 08:00  

#4  ranks #2452 all-time in domestic box office. I hate when utter pap is inserted as fact in a "news" piece
Posted by: Frank G   2007-10-06 07:45  

#3  boxoffice "hit Motorcycle Diaries"

uh huh? $10 Mil to make.... who knows how much to market/distribute, and total of $57 mil receipts worldwide?

NOT a hit
Posted by: Frank G   2007-10-06 07:43  

#2  The lad is still obviously loved at Rutgers and in leftest, communist academia circles.

Mason Gross
School of the Arts

33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901-1959

April 30, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Lara Hoyt, Coordinator for Public Relations and Alumni Affairs
732/932-7591 x512 publicrelations@masongross.rutgers.edu

Forty years of Che Guevara at Mason Gross Galleries Concurrent show features fusion of visual arts and dance

New Brunswick, NJ – Marking the year of the 40th anniversary of Che Guevara’s death, Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square presents a show inspired by an extensive private collection of posters, dating from the 1960s to the present, that depict the iconic Marxist revolutionary. Opening May 9, “Beauty Is in the Street: The Iconography of Idealism” brings part of that collection together with specially commissioned contemporary artworks made in response to the posters as printed artifacts and as ideas.


“The exhibition looks at the continued power of Che as a symbol of hope and of opposition across cultures,” said curator Gerry Beegan, a professor of visual arts at Mason Gross School of the Arts. “Whatever one might think of his beliefs, his use of violence, and his political failures, Che retains a remarkable cultural resonance 40 years after his death.”

Same could be said for Adolf Hitler I suppose.

Posted by: Besoeker   2007-10-06 07:19  

#1  Simon Bolivar still has fans here, but Guevara not so much. The only people I see in Panama wearing Che shirts are leftist Americans & Euros.
Posted by: Destro in Panama   2007-10-06 05:15  

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