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This Wreckage

PREVIEW: Che Guevara and the Argentine Elections w/ Bad Empanada

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2970 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The first episode of Andy's newest side project focusing on Latin American politics and history, Talkin' 'Tina!

BreadTuber BAD EMPANADA joins us to talk about the upcoming elections in Argentina that will return Kirchernismo to power after four years of Mauricio Macri's neoliberal buffoonery, but can left-populist Peronism walk the country back from the brink of economic collapse, or will there be a new insurrection like in 2000? And who do the Posadists support?

After that we discuss the life and politics of Che Guevara and the claims that he was a blood-soaked homophobic murderer. We talk about the excesses of the Cuban government, the extent of Che's role in them, and some of our favorite stories of the revolution and after.

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Shownotes:

Che Guevara: Homophobic Racist? Feat. Steven Crowder & PragerU | BadEmpanada

Who Did Che Guevara Murder?

Financial Times: Hedge funds look for opportunities in beaten-up Argentine assets

Dissident Cuban Communism by Gary Andrew Tennant

Music: Edmundo Rivero - Cafetin de Buenos Aires

Transcript

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0:00.0

I mean I could talk about the different Argentine Trotsky's tendencies all day, but let's pivot to Cuba and Che Guevara.

0:09.0

You put out a video on your YouTube channel called a shirt man bad that just it counters some of the

0:20.1

overt propaganda against Che Gagavara trying to push back on this idea that people who wear Chagavara t-shirts don't realize or supporting a you know a blood-soaked tyrants or whatever.

0:36.0

So let's get into that topic by first talking about who Chekovara was and how we ended up

0:42.0

being this revolutionary icon?

0:44.0

Yeah, well, I mean, he was a rich kid from Argentina who played rugby and basically he would be

0:50.8

everything that I hated if I met him when he was 20 years old.

0:54.0

And... You think he was a jock?

0:57.0

He was absolutely... He was not just a jock. He was a jetto.

1:00.0

He was a tin chow. It's the worst kind of jetto.

1:02.0

I saw him as more of a as-

1:04.4

It's like the Argentine Chad. I saw him more as an asthmatic nerd who loves

1:09.0

sci-fi. I guess you could be both of those things. can be asthmatic and a jock I mean he played rugby you don't play rugby in

1:16.4

Argentina unless you're like you know part of the old boys club

1:19.5

Mm okay so how did he become a dirty hippie pinko?

1:24.0

Well, I mean, the traditional narrative is that, you know, the Motorcycle Diaries

1:28.3

narrative where he was studying to become a doctor and he went on like a road trip across Latin America

1:36.8

with his friend and he had a political awakening on this trip that changed so he was completely.

1:42.3

And I mean that's at least what he wrote

1:43.8

so I mean if we're going by general historical sands of evidence that's

1:48.9

pretty you know that's pretty cut and dry, right?

1:52.8

So, and then from then on, he seems to just have changed

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