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  The Cult of Che - Don't applaud The Motorcycle Diaries. By Paul Berman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Che was an enemy of freedom, and yet he has been erected into a symbol of freedom.
Che was a medical student in those days, and Granado a biochemist, and in real life, as in the movie, the two men spent a few weeks toiling as volunteers in a Peruvian leper colony.
Che is a hero to many because he resisted a truly ugly system, remained true to his ideals, and conveniently died before the Revolution's slow, pathetic demise became apparent to nearly everyone.
slate.msn.com /id/2107100   (2382 words)

  
 BrownPride.com : History
Che was well disciplined and was willing to die for the cause.
Che was the man responsible for influencing Castro towards communism.
Che was reported to have been captured and executed by CIA-trained unit of the Bolivian government on Oct. 9,1967.
www.brownpride.com /history/history.asp?a=che/index   (345 words)

  
 The Observer | Review | Just a pretty face?
Che's defiant image may still hang in the offices of Andy Gilchrist, leader of the Fire Brigades' Union, and Bob Crow of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union but, politically at least, it is a relic of a bygone era, as arcane in its way as as those old ornate union banners.
Che's mother, Celia, from whom he inherited his indomitable spirit, and with whom he corresponded throughout his life, inculcated in him a free spirit and a passionate hatred of the Peronist right in Argentina.
Che did not last long in the post, and was soon made Minister for Industry, a job that made him a nomadic ambassador for the revolution.
observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1258340,00.html   (3754 words)

  
 Che Guevara Information Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Death of Che Guevara: A Chronology : This is long, but it explains the hunt and capture of Che very well.
Che Chic : Che "has become a pop icon throughout the world": Newsweek.
Che Guevara's cypher (discovered on him when he was killed), which was used to communicate with Castro.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/8702/che.html   (1155 words)

  
 Welcome to my Che Guervara page
Che guevara was well educated, a man who could have had a comfortable life as a doctor; yet he gave up all this, putting his life on the line for the things he believed.
Che had a good education due to his middle-class background and went to medical school and became a physician.
Che then moved onto Mexico where he met Raul and Fidel Castro, Che signed up with the Cuban rebels in Mexico City.The three then sailed to Cuba in an old yacht with 60 other people, a group that was to become the core of the future guerrilla movement.
jonathanos.tripod.com /che.htm   (1153 words)

  
 TIME 100: Che Guevara
By the time Ernesto Guevara, known to us as Che, was murdered in the jungles of Bolivia in October 1967, he was already a legend to my generation, not only in Latin America but also around the world.
Che the moral guru proclaiming that a New Man, no ego and all ferocious love for the other, had to be forcibly created out of the ruins of the old one.
Che the romantic mysteriously leaving the revolution to continue, sick though he might be with asthma, the struggle against oppression and tyranny.
www.time.com /time/time100/heroes/profile/guevara01.html   (364 words)

  
 El Che! - Che Guevara T-shirts, Posters, Books, Video, Guevara shirt
Che's enthusiasm and idealism is tangible, and contageous.
Passages from Che's diary are read by the narrator as we travel through the countryside, interviewing Bolivians who met Che during his eleven month campaign.
Che's constant battle with asthma, his relationship with the mysterious Tania, his distress at the death of comrades, and his betrayal by local peasants are retold.
www.coven.net /che   (732 words)

  
 The Resurrection of Che Guevara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Che later dropped this qualification when he insisted that conditions were equally ripe for guerrilla warfare throughout Latin America.
Since, for several years, Che was a prominent member of a group holding state power, he shares responsibility for the repressive record of that regime, particularly when he was allied with those who energetically pressed the Cuban revolutionary government to adopt the Soviet model.
Clearly, Che Guevara played a key role in inaugurating a tradition of arbitrary administrative, non-judicial detentions, later used in the UMAP camps for the confinement of dissidents and social "deviants": homosexuals, Jehovahs Witnesses, practitioners of secret Afro-Cuban religions such as Abakua, and non-political rebels.
www.wpunj.edu /~newpol/issue25/farber25.htm   (3361 words)

  
 Che Guevera   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Che is indicated as a dangerous Argentine communist and may not remain in Guatemala.
Che leads an official Cuban delegation in a tour to different socialistic countries: from the Soviet-Union and Eastern Europe to China and Northern Korea.
In their broadcast to China the US claim that Che was murdered because of his pro-Chinese point of view, and in the broadcasts to the East they claim the opposite.
www.multiworld.org /m_versity/althinkers/che.htm   (3550 words)

  
 LikeTelevision Blog: 10/08/1967 - Che Guevera is dead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
On Oct. 8, 1967 - it was reported that Che Guevara had been fatally wounded in battle, fighting with peasant revolutionaries trying to take control of Bolivia.
Many years later in July 1997, Che Guevara's body was found in in a mass grave near Vallegrande and reburied in Santa Clara, Cuba.
Che Guevara is still a hero to some folks but his legend as a glamourous revolutionary has faded with time.
www.liketelevision.com /blog/archives/000237.html   (444 words)

  
 Castro Has Che Guevera's Amputated Hand on Display at the Revolution Museum in Havana!!! [Free Republic]
Che ordered that women and children visiting his prisoners be paraded in front of the execution wall, gruesomely stained with blood and brain parts.
Che's image flooded Cuba and posters began to appear in the domain of the academic left: colleges and universities of the US and the free world in order to attract the romantics and uninformed.
The name of "Che Guevera" must be inscribed in communist red or pinko ink, or fine point red or pink magic marker at the base of the thumb.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a391ecdab1f96.htm   (3509 words)

  
 Che Guevera   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
During his years as a leader of the Cuban revolutionary government (1958-1965), however, Che was one of the country's principal economic policymakers, serving as director of the National Bank and as Minister of Industry.
Che was convinced that people were capable of acting out of altruism, self-sacrifice, and revolutionary dedication instead of self-interest.
Che, in contrast, thought people could learn to be altruistic, but believed they wouldn't as long as society conditioned them to act on the basis of self-interest.
www.worldproutassembly.org /che_guevera.htm   (830 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Even to those without Marxist sympathies, Che Guevara (1928-67) was a dashing, charismatic figure: the asthmatic son of an aristocratic Argentine family whose sympathy for the world's oppressed turned him into a socialist revolutionary, the valued comrade-in-arms of Cuba's Fidel Castro and a leader of guerilla warfare in Latin America and Africa.
Although Ernesto "Che" Guevara was captured and killed in the mountains of Bolivia in 1967 at the age of 39, his thought and example continue to affect revolutionary movements throughout the world.
Che was admirably committed to his beliefs, but this commitment was so strong that his beliefs became unyielding and dogmatic.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802135587?v=glance   (2275 words)

  
 The Chicken Whisperer: Maybe just a tad over the top   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Che was a tragic hero, as his intentions were pure but he had the fatal flaw of a religious belief and faith in communism.
Che advocated a system where happiness was guaranteed and it was a system where a central authority (regardless of whether it is democraticly elected or not) defined happiness.
Che was compassionate, and he was not a war-monger, as he saw violence as the last resort and often argued against revolution where democracy was still a possible avenue.
chickenwhisperer.typepad.com /home/2004/04/maybe_just_a_ta.html   (12336 words)

  
 Che Guevera: Investigating the Legend
Aleida Guevara, Che's eldest daughter, speaks candidly and for the first time about her father - the man and the icon.
In this moving and reflective documentary, Aleida examines the personal and lasting impact of having the "icon of the century" for a father.
In one speech, Che discusses the importance of the Cuban revolution to Latin America and the role of the United States in perpetuating poverty in Bolivia.
www.acmi.net.au /3C4EE5EF99874C789452B8A7A7919A51.htm   (375 words)

  
 Che Guevara, the T-shirt and poster revolutionary (T-shirts)
Che could be the name of a hip-hop star.
His execution remains a historic and controversial event; and thirty years later, the circumstances of his guerrilla foray into Bolivia, his capture, killing, and burial are still the subject of intense public interest and discussion around the world.
With that, and the horrible image of the mutilated corpse of Ernesto Che Guevarra, shown to the world after he was killed in 1968, this rant ends.
www.lindqvist.com /t-shirts/index.php?ID=1273   (708 words)

  
 Che Guevera <197> liberation fighter
Che chose to throw his lot in with the actual struggles people were waging for their liberation.
Che played an important role in establishing a national budgetary system that increased social decision-making over how things were produced and distributed.
Che and Cuba's revolutionary leaders were very sensitive to the dangers of bureaucratisation that resulted from centralising the country’s resources in the state, especially while Cuba’s economy remained poor and dependent on the capitalist West.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/2003/565/565p32.htm   (1266 words)

  
 After Evita, it is time to celebrate the magic of legendary Che
He recalls how a series of lectures on Che given by different professors was turned by the media into a university chair on the legendary guerilla leader.
Che Guevara has been sent into the kingdom of myths, says writer Tomas Martin Eloy, author of Santa Evita, a novel over Evita Peron which has received international acclaim.
Che fans have been finding more excitement visiting the actual place he met his demise.
www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19970706/18750593.html   (561 words)

  
 Che-Mart: Che Guevara's Life & T-Shirts business
Che has marketed his brand name brilliantly over the years, selling to specific niche in the market: young people who have no clue what Che has done or what he stands for.
The cash keeps flowing as most college dorms world-wide are being adorned with his face, and more and more middle class sons and daughters wear Che products in order to, among other things, wash away the guilt of their well-heeled upbringing.
Che spends his spare time on the slopes of Aspen or socializing with his good friend and business associate Donald Trump.
che-mart.com   (643 words)

  
 Russia Travel Forums - View topic - Che Guevera Picture
I've seen middle aged moms with the che guevara purses, 11 yr old girls rocking che t-shirts, and it seems requisite for every angry teen, yet you ask them what the person stands for they couldn't tell you.
Basically in a nutshell, Che was a weak child through asthma and was forced to stay at home and read and read.
During the revolution, Che intelligence and how well read he was, he became the military leader and the moral icon after Fidel.
www.waytorussia.net /TalkLounge/quote-6695.html   (827 words)

  
 SOHH.com Global Forum - Che Guevera = ??
If you know that Huey was also a Marxist, and then say that Che is not on the same level as Huey, well you lost me bro.
Che was an Argentine doctor who traveled South America looking for a way to fight the capitalist world order and free Latin America from American imperialism, he met Fidel Castro in Mexico and helped him organize a guerrilla army.
Che was awarded a post in the Cuban government as foreign minister; he retired after a couple of years to continue the revolution.
www.sohh.com /forums/showthread.php?t=494453   (381 words)

  
 Che Guevera
Revolutionary Che Guevera originally planned on a career as a doctor, studying medicine at the University of Buenos Aires before joining Fidel Castro's movement in Mexico.
Guevera played a major role in the Cuban revolution and eventually held a number of positions in the post-revolutionary government under Castro.
In 1965 he left Cuba to pursue revolutionary activities in South America, but in 1967 was killed in Bolivia by government troops.
www.multied.com /bio/people/geuvera.html   (70 words)

  
 Coming soon: The young life of Che Guevera - Movies - MSNBC.com
“Che is usually only seen as a revolutionary and I hope we change that,” said Garcia Bernal, sporting a gothic rock T-shirt and disheveled haircut at the premiere.
Garcia Bernal plays Che as a clean-cut, 23-year-old medical student seven years before he and Fidel Castro took Havana in one of the 20th century’s most famous revolutions.
Steven Soderbergh is set to direct “Che,” due for release next year, starring Oscar winner Benicio del Toro as the fallen leftist hero.
msnbc.msn.com /id/5550356   (811 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Guerrilla Warfare: Che Guevara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ches volume is the other side of the coin, as he details his style of hit-and-run tactics that were paramount to the overthrow of Cubas government and the establishment of the Castro regime that Didions Cubans fled from.
Reading the classic books of Che Guevara and his obsessive dreams of emancipation by guerillas, it is almost like an exposition on the devine rights of kings or a doctrine of a flat earth.
Now, Che's book is probably the last I'd recommend to anyone in that area (there are too many other books that are much better), but it is not without some merit.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0803270755?v=glance   (1354 words)

  
 Che Guevera   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Che Guevera was the consummate revolutionary, the revolutionary's revolutionary.
He was always campaigning for the rights of the oppressed, whether they were oppressed because of their class, race, or as a consequence of imperialism.
For we see ourselves as waging the same war that Che gave his life to wage.
www.oberlin.edu /stuorg/twh/guevera.htm   (123 words)

  
 Lawsuit over Che Guevera picture
http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/ cmnpd01fm.cfm?PrgDate=08/07/2000&PrgID=2 has CHE GUEVERA PICTURE story with NPR realaudio files of a story that aired a few days ago (the link to the file is 3/4 down the page).
I have just heard the news reports of the Che Guevera story and the trial should be interesting to follow.
I see it as less of an issue of Che as a pop icon, more of an issue of photographers being able to either A) maintain control over their work or B) being paid fairly for their work.
www.photo.net /bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0010OR   (2800 words)

  
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 The Motorcycle Diaries - Movie Review - DIFF 2004 - TEN Movies
I would particularly want to draw your attention to the genius of editing, scoring and cinematography during Che’s climatic swim across a river that stands as symbolism for his determination to transcend his affluent roots and embrace the common man’s plight.
Now I disgress – at the risk of soiling such fervent adulation for Che by the film makers, it is my moral duty to discuss the real Che Guevera.
It is held by those who have taken a closer look at Che’s political ideology that this revolutionary was in fact a right-winger disguised as a communist.
movies.theemiratesnetwork.com /diff/2004/motorcycle_diaries.php   (571 words)

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