Daughter of Cuban revolutionary icon Che Guevara plans to trace her Irish roots

World revolutionary figures will always be different things to different people. We see others not as they are but as we are. Victorious revoltionaries willnever be popular to the vanquished. An interview with Aleida in Ireland's quality boradsheet - The Irish Times, spoke of how Cuba has been deeply hurt by US trade embargo, derpiving children of milk, etc. She also visited the village of Kilkeel in Co Clare, where Ernesto overnighted after his Mosco bound plane was diverted to Shannon after lightening stirke in the early 1960s. Life the US trade embargo now! It's difficutl to be pro-American otherswise.

Getting back to Che's daughter planning to trace her Irish origins - this is very possible since somewhere around 70,000 Irish were enslaved by the English and sent to the Caribbean in the slave trade to work the sugar plantations back in their heyday 17th - 18th c. In fact the West Indian patois has been found to be based on Gaelic. Also there were some indentured servants and some landowners there. Ireland was not a healthy place to be for over 300 years with the English army carrying out unspeakable acts of genocide, etc.

Tom Mo the protector of right wing dictators is confused. He quotes propaganda as fact.

And Humberto,who signed a packed with [the Devil] one of the biggest mass murderer in human history [Stalin] thus enslaving almost half of Europe for half a century. Roosevelt and Churchill. Stalin had no intention of equality for all.They never questioned the mad butcher Stalin. The argument could be that if was there only way to defeat the Nazi’s as niter side on there own could defeat them, so they used a mass murderer to achieve there own agenda. Not so many people are dump anymore Humberto your propaganda will con the dump perhaps, but thats it. No matter how hard you try Ernesto Guevara will always be remembered for what he and his kind achieved against the big boys [ Kicked there murdering A-s’s out of Cuba ]. The end justify’s the means.

Humberto You are confusing Seanomelb with facts. Sean is rarely right but never in doubt. A true card carrier.

I see Humberto ignores the American sponsored terrorist dictators of latin America ,therefore justifying their murder and mayhem campaigns against their own people,Good man Humberto!!!!

LA NUEVA CUBA : "Che Guevara: The Fish Die by the Mouth" - By Humberto (Bert) Corzo*- Columnist, Los Angeles California-January 14, 2009 INTRODUCTION: The saying “The fish die by the mouth”, refers to those who speak more than the necessary until being fooled by their own speech. Can his mythical reputation survive the publication of his own words? The objective of this article is to expose the truth about Che, to demystify it in the face of those who feel admiration by this mass murderer, exposing the facts based on his writings, diaries, speeches, letters and conversations with those who knew him. Che never questioned the crimes of Stalin and Mao, nor the totalitarian conceptions of Marxism, incompatible with the ideals of liberty and democracy, defending until his death his Stalinists ideas. His fanaticism made him an implacable enemy of liberty. The French writer Regis Debray, author of "Revolution in the revolution", wrote about the Che that: "He was adept of the totalitarianism up to the last body hair.” TO FIND ORIGINAL ARTICLE COPY AND PASTE TITLE TO BROWSER AND SEARCH!

Che!! A great human being and a tower of strength as a fighter for the poor and oppressed suffering under American appointed dictators in latin America. The rest is US generated propaganda mulled over by the unthinking quislings below

I think you posters should say Che Guevara helped get rid of of the brutal assassins and murdering tugs and there Mafia friends from Cuba, fact. Where do you get your information from : Fox New and some brain dead news-rags. Re: persecution of gay’s, union leaders and people with Aids. This is all bull. Che Guevara was executed while in custody in 1967 and Aids was first diagnosed in 1981. The Cuban revolutionary’s used brutal force and good military tactics to rid there country of traitors and criminals, just as true Americans or Irishmen would do if they found themselves in the same situation. As you know a lot of the low-life's ended up in Florida USA hence the document of victims of Che Guevara from liars and gangsters. Come on now people, let say he was an American and ended up in Uganda or somewhere and fought against there brutal regime and help defeat them, there would be a 2 hundred ft statue of him in Washington. As a true Irishman I am looking forward to meeting Dr. Guevara on Monday evening.

As an American of Irish descent, Che Geuvara's Irishness is not something I am proud of. The man was a brutal assassin and flunky for Castro. he was ruthless in his elimination of those who dis not share his communist ideology.

I believe Che Guevara was shot/captured on October 18th, 1967, and executed the next day. 60 Minutes had an interview with a man named Rodriguez, who debriefed Che, prior to his execution. Rodriquez, a CIA man, actually shook hands with the condemned man, after each espoused the benefits of their respective economic systems. Che requested the firing squad not shoot him in the face, and Rodriquez had the shooters fire below Che's neck. The movie, "Che!" starring Omar Sharif, depicted a less than upright revolutionary. While in Bolivia, Che's men took food & other provisions from rural stores, with a vague promise of future payment. They also took advantage of the peasant women. Che Guevara is idolized in some parts today. Yet the true man fell far short of the heroic figure some credit him to have been.

Che Guevara was a murdering thug. He outlawed trade unions in Cuba. He herded union members into labor camps and sent rebellious union leaders before firing squads. The camps were also used to incarcerate gays, dissidents, and those suffering from AIDS. A fine fellow indeed. Ms. Kelly calls him an ICON. Galway wants to build a monument to the bastard. Shame on you Irish who go along with this.

216 DOCUMENTED VICTIMS OF CHÉ GUEVARA IN CUBA: 1957 TO 1959 From Armando M. Lago, Ph.D.´s - Cuba: The Human Cost of Social Revolution TO REACH ORIGINAL DOCUMENT COPY AND PASTE ENTIRE TITLE TO BROWSER AND SEARCH

The meeting with the trade union unite just confirms my mistrust of this organisation whose ideas are rooted in socialist communist ideals,these unions have no power base in private enterprise,but they control the public services and even some government departments with an vice like grip.

I wonder if there is a corelation between Ireland embracing the likes of Che Guevara, and thus, communism, and the brain drain? Just wondering what a well educated young Irelander would think.