October 9th marks the 58th anniversary of Che Guevara’s death. Ernesto “Che” Guevara was one of the world’s most ruthless mass murderers, whom the leftist propaganda machine successfully turned into a heroic symbol of the West’s spoiled and misguided youth.
When I first arrived in America nearly three decades ago, I was shocked to see affluent students proudly wearing T-shirts with Che Guevara’s image. After all, this was the man who represented everything Western hippies and angry young people stood against. For instance, he detested and imprisoned gays and sent to camp teenagers wearing jeans or listening to “Yankee-Imperialist” rock and roll.
According to the historians who produced The Black Book of Communism, Cuba’s revolutionary executioners murdered at least 14,000 innocents, many of whom were in their twenties or younger. I tried to reason with the American Che-worshippers by bringing to bear indisputable facts about his terrorist and murderous activities, but to little avail.
Humberto Fontova, the author of the eye-opening monograph Exposing Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him, provides witness testimonials and detailed evidence about Che’s atrocities. By his own notorious admission, Che Guevara proclaimed that he “really liked killing” and that “a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.” Fontova writes in the Introduction to his book:
This is the man who boasted that he executed from “revolutionary conviction” rather than from any “archaic bourgeois details” like judicial evidence and who urged “atomic extermination” as the final solution for those American “hyenas.” … He declared that “individualism must disappear!” …
“Certainly, we execute,” boasted Che, while addressing the U.N. General Assembly in December 1964. “And we will continue executing as long as it is necessary.”
A curious fact about Fidel’s favorite executioner is that he was afflicted by an extreme case of tone-deafness, referred to as amusia, and was strikingly unable to recognize or reproduce musical sounds. One might humorously speculate whether Che Guevara’s inability to enjoy the beauty of music was somehow related to the pathological ruthlessness of his soul. More likely, though, the reason was the spiritual poison and inverted moral compass that totalitarian socialist ideology engenders.
Fontova examines the depths of fraudulent delusions that Western scholars, entertainers, and journalists exhibit in their admiration for one of the cruelest communist murderers, who embodied much of what the woke elites today claim to fervently denounce. His carefully curated image and sham biographies are one of the most insidious examples of the extreme power and influence of the falsified reality created by anti-Western indoctrination. Fontova explains:
Ignorance, of course, accounts for much Che idolatry. But so do mendacity and wishful thinking, all of it boosted — covertly and overtly — by reflexive anti-Americanism.
Thankfully, more research and evidence are emerging and spreading to dispel the perpetuated myths about Che Guevara’s life. Those who wear T-shirts with his image — just like the woefully misguided protesters on our campuses today — would be well served by watching Agustin Blazquez’s documentary Che: The Other Side of an Icon and heeding its warning: “Remember the real Che and the blood on his hands if you’re ever tempted to wear a T-shirt in his honor. The only thing you will really be displaying is your ignorance.”
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Nora D. Clinton is a Research Scholar at the Legal Insurrection Foundation. She was born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria. She holds a PhD in Classics and has published extensively on ancient documents on stone. In 2020, she authored the popular memoir Quarantine Reflections Across Two Worlds. Nora is a co-founder of two partner charities dedicated to academic cooperation and American values. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and son.
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