Che Guevara: Hero or Villan?

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And dare I say, one of the more believable theories about the Kennedy assassination was that right wing Anti-Castro fanatics - some of whom were American and Cuban CIA contract agents and contacts sponsored by the CIA and American mob - had hit the president, making use of the (allegedly) Pro-Castro Lee Harvey Oswald. These people had hated Kennedy as much as they had hated Castro, blaming the American president for deserting them at the Bay of Pigs.
Sorry, but Kennedy Assassination conspiracies are among my Aspie obsessions, and thus I can hardly help myself!

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I suspect that if one compares executions in Cuba versus executions, disappearances, massacres, and political killings that took place in various countries under the auspices of the CIA, then Cuba would come off looking very mild and civilized in comparison. Moreover, disaffected Cubans always had the option of moving to Miami--an option that wasn't open to disaffected Argentines.

According to this table from Amnesty International:

https://www.google.com/fusiontables/Dat ... 435418lhLB

Cuba had no executions in 2011, versus 43 in the United States, which is one of the planet's execution leaders.

Neither. He just was. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. I'd say the rise of such revolutionaries was pretty much an inevitable consequence when democratic avenues to functional leadership were suppressed by the ruling class. Extremist Marxism itself is the bastard child of the brutish excesses of 19th century style industrial capitalism and colonialist exploitation.

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he is not relevant

I disapprove of his smoking

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Taking into consideration the time in which he lived, I would say he was quite heroic and admirable.

Some of the things that our "Founding Fathers" did may have been unadmirable--these things tend to get glossed over, and they are presented as heroes to school children. On balance, they too may have been more good than bad, speaking generally.

He was probably joking~

I share his ethnicity, part of his bone structure, his name, and like the occasional smoke

Viva la revolución! (?)

I share ethnicity with Martin Luther. And his only "crime" as a revolutionary was his embittered Anti-Semitic writing in later life. But from the way people write about it today, you'd think the old man had transported himself through time to Nazi Germany, and was personally shoving Jews into gas chambers!

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer