10 Facts that 'Che Haters' Hate
10 FACTS THAT REICH-WING GUSANOS HATE
(1) Che was named one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century by Time Magazine, and listed as a "Saint and Icon".
(2) Che's famous image entitled: "Guerrillero Heroico" has been declared the most famous and reproduced image in the world.
(3) Che Guevara is prayed to as "Saint Ernesto" in Bolivia and seen as an equal figure to Christ and the Virgin Mary by rural campesinos.
(4) In September of 2007, Che was voted "Argentina's greatest historical and political figure", and they just last month erected a giant statue of him in Rosario.
(5) In Argentina schools are named after Che.
(6) In Cuba, Che is on the 3 dollar Peso, and school children begin every morning reciting "we will be like Che".
(7) Che oversaw the revolutionary tribunals of convicted War criminals from the U.$. Supported Batista dictatorship. These rapists, torturers, and goons ran Batista's dungeons and killed 20,000 people. Che simply reviewed the appeals of those sentenced to death. A decision supported by 93 % of Cubans at the time.
(8) Cuba under Batista was a Mafia ran casino and hooker haven for American tourists, where mostly US companies owned 75 % of the arable land. This is the context that Fidel and Che rose to power in.
(9) Che's radicalism was spawned from living in Guatemala during the 1953 overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz by the CIA at the behest of the United Fruit Co.
(10) Later, U.S. Imperialism would follow this practice up by overthrowing Mossadeq, Allende etc and propping up Brutal dictators like the Shah, Suharto, Marcos, Pinochet, and Saddam Hussien (Just like they did with Batista).
[1]http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/guevara01.html
[2]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1352650.stm
[3]http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/sep/23/theobserver.worldnews
[4]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7455196.stm
[5]http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN1446436420080614?sp=true
[6]http://www.pww.org/article/view/5880/1/234/
[7]http://www.socialistalternative.org/news/article20.php?id=640
[8]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution
[9]http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_19_35/ai_54176319
[10]http://www.apk2000.dk/netavisen/artikler/global_debat/2002-1126_us_imp _basic_stats.htm