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Hollywood idolizes him. Campus liberals worship him. Now, meet the real Che Guevara: murderer, torturer, terrorist
Exposing the Real Che Guevara
by Humberto Fontova
Forty years after his death, it is impossible to escape the iconic image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara. From T- shirts to posters to Hollywood movies like The Motorcycle Diaries, he is still celebrated as a selfless, fearless martyr to the cause of "the people" - while Mao Tse Tung, Ho Chi Minh, and even his comrade-in-arms Fidel Castro have long since lost their luster. And now a major Hollywood biopic is about to lionize him to a new generation. But as Cuban exile Humberto Fontova reveals in this myth-shattering book, the real Che Guevara was a cold-blooded murderer who thought nothing of firing a gun into the stomach of a woman six months pregnant, whose only crime was that her family opposed him. He was also, Fontova proves, a sadistic torturer, a coward in battle, a hypocrite who lusted after material luxuries while carefully cultivating his image as a lover of the poor and oppressed, and a remorseless terrorist who unleashed horrific violence throughout Latin America.
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Exposing the Real Che Guevara is based on scores of interviews with the few people still alive who interacted with Che and can tell the truth about him -- including survivors of Che's atrocities, and the CIA agent who interrogated Che just hours before the Bolivian government executed him.
You'll learn:
- How Che once declared that "a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate." (So why does The Motorcyle Diaries portray him as a gentle soul man who loved lepers as Jesus did?)
- How Che had a very bloody (and typically cowardly) hand in putting down an insurgency by landless peasants - in which 80 percent of these anti-communist guerrillas were executed on the spot upon capture, a Che specialty. (So why is he always portrayed as a revolutionary struggling on behalf of "the people"?)
- How Che longed to destroy New York City with nuclear missiles. (So why does Angelina Jolie sport a Che tattoo, while denouncing violence as a U.N. ambassador of goodwill?)
- How Che promoted book burning and signed death warrants for authors who disagreed with him. (So why did Jean Paul Sartre praise him as a "perfect" intellectual, and why did Time name him one of the 100 most influential people of the century?)
- How Che made amazingly racist sentiments about blacks. (So why do Jesse Jackson, Jay-Z, and Mike Tyson say nice things about him?)
- How Che persecuted homosexuals, long-haired rock and roll fans, and religious people. (So why do Carlos Santana, Madonna, Johnny Depp, and Robert Redford think he's cool?)
- How Che, the devoted communist, loved material wealth and private luxuries. (So why do the mainstream media still depict him as an ascetic?)
Fontova, who fled Cuba in 1961 at the age of seven, is a widely published conservative commentator and the author of four books, including Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant. After reading this book, the only question you'll still have is whether Che's fans are too ignorant to realize they've been duped or too anti-American to care.
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This book for the most part looks critically into small parts of Che's life. While Che was in support of "The People" many upperclassmen hated Che because he supported taking down the huge American industries that worked the bones off of every latin american middle classmen for cheap labor. It was the right wing conservatives who were in charge of the dangerous factories and fruit companies. Che witnessed it as he was growing up. He could have practiced medicine and earned a substantial amount of money being a doctor, however he chose to see CHANGE and make it happen. Think about why conservatives don't like Che and maybe you'll see that it is because Che demanded equality and was in support of marxism which basically stated that the people should own the factories and work them. So who loses their wealth? The right wing conservatives who are in charge of the huge factories and industries in Latin America.
The real Che was not the ascetic he is portrayed as today. This book correctly points out the fact that he was a killer.
Do some homework on your own, and you will come to this conclusion, as well.
Far from being the altruistic Jesus-like figure that liberals want to see him as, the real Che really and truly was a vicious animal who will, I believe, have to face the Real Jesus, and answer to his evil deeds.
Great Book! Again, do your own reference work, and you'll come to the same truths this author plainly spells out. Che was a criminal, a murderer and a hypocrite.
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