Another thought about Che!

Howard LaFranchi of The Christian Science Monitor wrote an article last week entitled “Bush and Che: different concepts of freedom“.

My favorite line is this:

“The admiration for El Che no longer extends to his politics and ideology, certainly not to his Marxism,” says Martin Krause, dean of the Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration in Buenos Aires and a longtime analyst of Argentine society. “It’s a romantic idea of one man going to battle against the windmills, he’s a Quixote.

Those of us who lived under Che, or had friends who ended up in prison or firing squads, know exactly what T-shirts they are wearing.  

It is a symbol of tyranny and repression. There is nothing romantic about Che, unless you believe in political prisons.

Again, we recommend Humberto’s book: