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Originally Posted by corpus vile
So yeah he was a racist homophobic scumbag who took a sadistic pleasure in personally killing people as he admitted in a letter to his dear old dad.
It is fairly well known that Guevara, for all his charisma, was a profoundly unpleasant individual. Max Hastings, in Abyss (which is about the Missile Crisis but gives a good account of the Cuban revolution), refers to 'the supremely handsome Che Guevara, a sea-green incorruptible [that's a Robespierre reference] whom women went crazy for, and who now [1957] embarked on a relationship with eighteen-year-old blacksmith's daughter Zoila Rodriguez. Raul Castro once met Che riding through moonlit jungle on a white horse, ahead of a captured army jeep and supply truck. Yet the doctor, almost certainly psychopathic, also enjoyed personally executing alleged stool-pigeons.' (Abyss, p.39.)
There's no indication that Guevara differed from Castro's macho homophobia, which in 1965-8 saw Cuban gay men put in UMAP forced-labour camps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milita...Aid_Production And his racism towards South America's black people (such as Pele, say) was quite eye-watering.
Guevara is a fantasy figure because of all those student posters and T-shirts based on a single photo. But if you look at the whole reel shot by Alberto Korda on that occasion, it's only in that one frame that Guevara looks that impressive. He certainly had something that caught attention, but basically what he had wasn't, in the end, good.
I've never seen the notorious 1969 Hollywood biopic Che!, starring Omar Sharif as Guevara and Jack Palance as Castro. It's said to be quite dull, but it must be pretty weird.
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