There are many different views and opinions of Che Guevara. Many of the negative views held of him are founded on the premise that he murdered a lot of innocent civilians. Some figures suggest into the tens of thousands, others suggest a dismal 150 victims. What is the truth? Why is there such an incredible discrepancy? Can somebody find me primary sources and actual proof to these atrocities? Can somebody please help me find credible sources? I seek the truth, nothing more.
no he wasn,t, he was a revolutionist, you can read more about him at http://www.business-science-articles.com/history/people/255-biography-ernesto-che-guevara
If he was a revolutionary, what he revolted against was reason, reality, morality, and life; and what he brought into existence was death and screams of horror on a massive scale.
As a Trotskyite he believed in perpetual war. That to me is mass murder. But then, Saul of Tarsus was a mass murderer and today he is called St Paul.
According to Christianity, any soul can be redeemed by accepting Christ as their savior; according to Objectivism, any soul can be redeemed by exercising their free will and choosing reason, but only after acknowledging the immorality of their action and paying the price due. Perhaps Saul of Tarsus did same, but certainly not Che, the human butchering pig.
How was he a Trotskyist, and how do Trotskyists advocate perpetual war? He was pretty much a textbook anti-revisionist Stalinist.
Revolutionists and murderers are not mutually exclusive. Often they are one and the same. Being a revolutionary also does not automatically make one a hero or good person fighting for justice. Hitler was a revolutionary. Guevera was a murderous and vile torturer. He was homophobic, racist and probably a rapist. As the OP points out the numbers vary but there is no doubt he engaged in mass murder, torture and political violence. He also wrecked the Cuban economy plunging what was once a prosperous nation which rivaled the USA into decades of third world poverty.
That depends on whether you read his CIA files or his biographies. He did seem to be kind of a vindictive sort, but he settled a lot of scores carried over from the hugely brutal Batista regime. A lot of those were very well-deserved. There is no way he revolted against morality. Batista is rotting in hell now.
Yeah, that's nothing to do with advocating eternal war. Permanent revolution, as it is generally understood today, is to do with the proletariat completing some of the uncompleted tasks of the bourgeoisie during their revolution and subsequent dictatorship. It's probably not a good idea to take political slogans literally.
No doubt he killed a lot of people. Not so many as leaders in the Soviet Union and the US, but he was killed at a young age, cutting short his career.
WOW!! I watched the whole thing. I knew Guevara was a spoiled, privileged, rotter but I didn't know he was also psychopathic killer. Thanks for the link!
You're welcome. Stefan Molyneux is fantastic. I don't necessarily agree with him on everything, but he is extremely well informed. Because he does a ton of impartial research on everything he makes videos about. He's very concerned with accuracy.
Ernesto Guevara would never had become "Che" if it wasn't for Uncle Sam meddling in Guatemala in 1954. [video=youtube;axvxshYPa5s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axvxshYPa5s[/video] [video=youtube;pvCAWRU9mzI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvCAWRU9mzI[/video] [video=youtube;lOfo6VMFIHM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfo6VMFIHM[/video] The United Fruit Co. by canonical poet Pablo Neruda (Nobel Laureate) When the trumpet sounded, everything was prepared on earth, and Jehovah gave the world to Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda, Ford Motors, and other corporations. The United Fruit Company reserved for itself the most juicy piece, the central coast of my world, the delicate waste of America It rebaptized these countries Banana Republics, and over the sleeping dead, over the unquiet heroes who won greatness, liberty, and banners, it established an opera buffa: it abolished free will, gave out imperial crowns, encouraged envy, attracted the dictatorship of flies. Trujillo flies, Tachos flies Carias flies, Martinez flies, Ubico flies, flies sticky with submissive blood and marmalade, drunken flies that buzz over the tombs of the people circus flies, wise flies expert at tyranny With the bloodthirsty flies came the Fruit Company, amassed coffee and fruit in ships which put to sea like overloaded trays with the treasures from our sunken lands. Meanwhile the Indians fall into the angry depths of the harbors and are buried in the morning mists, a corpse rolls, a thing without name, a discarded number, a bunch of rotten fruit thrown on the garbage heap. https://informacionlibre2000.files.wor dpress.com/2012/10/gloriosa-victoria.jpg Image above: Detail of Mexican artist Diego Rivera's mural "Gloriosa Victoria" (Glorious Victory) illustrating the CIA-backed overthrow of the Guatemalan government in 1954 to the advantage of United Fruit company. Note: U.S. President Eisenhower's face on bomb near dead workers while Secretary of State John Foster Dulles shakes hands with the newly-installed dictator Castillo Armas. http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/47/043.html "They force [Sister Dianna] Ortiz, who entered the novitiate at the age of 17, to jerk them off and perform oral sex. They hurt her in other ways she won't describe. (The most chilling line in the book is in a different section, where Ortiz, casually explaining her fear of dogs, says, "Dogs were used in my torture in a way that was too horrible to share with anyone. Even now, I don't talk about that part of the torture.") And they put her in a pit of dying and dead people who've already been tortured -- including children. Most damaging of all, they position Ortiz's hands around a machete and force the machete, in her hands, into another torture victim, murdering the woman." "I got pregnant as a result of the multiple gang rapes by my torturers, and unable to carry within me what they had engendered, what I could view only as a monster, the product of the men who had raped me, I turned to someone for assistance and I destroyed that life. Am I proud of this decision? No. But if I had to make the decision again, I believe I would again decide as I did eight years ago."---- Page 2 of Salon.com's review of her book The Blindfolds Eyes http://www.salon.com/2002/11/19/ortiz/ For women, it was an especially violent experience. The commission reports that nearly every female prisoner was the victim of repeated rape. The perpetration of this crime took many forms, from military men raping women themselves to the use of foreign objects on victims. Numerous women (and men) report spiders or live rats being implanted into their orifices. One woman wrote, “I was raped and sexually assaulted with trained dogs and with live rats. They forced me to have sex with my father and brother who were also detained. I also had to listen to my father and brother being tortured.” Her experiences were mirrored by those of many other women who told their stories to the commission. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3NrCYU5zNE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianna_Ortiz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClRXV8Ph9pc http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/2/7/torture-under-pinochet-we-were-peeling/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/11/AR2006121101204.html http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1570755639/sofa-20/ref=nosim http://www.amazon.com/Washington-Co...&keywords=the+washington+connec tion+Chomsky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNG6xzQu1Mw&index=18&list=PL1IIRVPwL5-UozGolsBS1au55v9-I6Spd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX9wo0MW0Tw&index=23&list=PL1IIRVPwL5-UozGolsBS1au55v9-I6Spd
