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Who Celebrates Che Guevara?

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🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Che Guevara is the face that launched a billion T-shirts. Even now, more than fifty years after his death, he inspires would-be revolutionaries and social justice warriors. Why is his appeal so enduring? Guatemalan radio and TV host Gloria Alvarez explains.

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0:00.0

Imagine wearing a t-shirt or displaying a poster or waving a flag

0:04.9

in Blason with the face of a brutal killer who openly express racist anger at blacks and indigenous people

0:12.3

and on this guy's disgust for gays.

0:14.9

Well, it's not something you have to imagine, it's done every day.

0:19.3

Somewhere on a college campus or at a social justice protest,

0:23.6

somebody is celebrating a psychopath.

0:26.5

The famous face of course belongs to Ernesto Che Guevara.

0:30.7

It's one of the most perverse jokes in modern life

0:33.6

that so many people, especially young people,

0:36.2

exhaled him as a hero.

0:38.0

Strange hero.

0:39.6

He personally murdered or had murdered and personally tortured

0:43.7

or had tortured thousands of Cuban citizens.

0:47.1

He would have happily murdered and tortured many more

0:50.1

if he had lived longer.

0:52.2

The only thing that stopped him was a bullet.

0:54.9

He was killed in 1967 at the age of 39 trying to organize a communist revolution in Bolivia.

1:02.0

They say only the good day young, Che was an exception.

1:05.8

But Che still captures the popular imagination.

1:08.8

Why?

1:09.6

Hell if I know.

1:11.1

Unless you're into sadistic thug worship, I am at a loss.

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