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The seeds of Che Guevara Lynch sprout in the country of his death -- Bolivia

Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 06:26 AM

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"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary...These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall! (El Paredón)" --Ernesto 'Che' Guevara Lynch

The Irish in Latin America played key roles in the turbulent past of this hemisphere. Many heroic names that indicate Irish ancestry are attached to seminal change in countries throughout the land. But there is one name in particular, that evokes harsh angry opinions of those that value freedom.

Che Guevara Lynch, whose familiar visage is sported on T shirts and posters is considered by many to be an international terrorist and mass murderer. During his vicious campaigns to impose communism on countries throughout Latin America, Guevara trained and motivated the Castro regime's firing squads executing thousands of men, women and children.

Not content to spread revolution, murder and mayhem on the American continent, he traveled to Africa where revolution was brewing in the Congo. The Cubans working as surrogates for the USSR, were used to help impose communism and violence on the people of Africa. Guevara lead a small contingent of Cubans in an effort to topple the government, but was unsuccessful in this endeavor.......but it opened the door for larger incursions later, that lead to the deaths of thousands of innocent people in African conflicts.

Guevara left Africa and returned to Latin America, ending up in Bolivia leading terrorist attacks against that government. But after years of escaping the backlash from the violence he inflicted on others, in Bolivia his luck ran out. He was tracked down and eventually captured by brave dedicated soldiers of the Bolivian army. Unfortunately for Che Guevara, the Bolivian army had read his playbook. They showed him the same respect towards human life that he himself showed to so many in the past; he was summarily executed in the jungles of Bolivia.

But the blood spilled that day has sprouted a new brand of repression and communism in the beautiful country of Bolivia. A new repressive/communist narco state is emerging from the mineral rich and simmering social pot in this part of Latin America.

Bolivia is a mid-size state in the middle of Latin America, a rich natural gas country. It was taken over by President Evo Morales in 2006. A former coca-grower, the ultra leftist president of Bolivia, is pro Iran and after 6 years in power is promoting a socialist agenda like that of his friend and close ally Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, including the expropriation of private businesses.

Evo Morales is part of a large ethnic group call aimara. They now rule the country with a critical agenda against q-aras or blancos (white bolivian-spaniards) and quechuas and guaranies.

During the past 6 years of his iron rein, Morales has been able to intimidate, censor, and prosecute any Bolivians who criticize him or thwart his political agenda. His Congress has passed laws expanding the government's powers to limit free speech and punish its critics, while the Supreme Court, packed with Evo Morales supporters, has explicitly rejected the principle that the judiciary should serve as a check on presidential power.

The Bolivian Evo Morales regime has enacted rules that dramatically reduce the public's right to obtain information held by the government. The communist administration's constant attacks on local rights defenders, whom authorities portray as enemies of the people, has helped make them more vulnerable to acts of intimidation by low-level officials and threats and acts of violence by Evo Morales supporters.

The Bolivian regime, called the "pluri-national state of Bolivia" under marxist conception, has sent a clear message to judges, journalists, broadcasters and rights defenders in particular, that the president Evo Morales and his followers are willing and able to punish people who challenge or obstruct their political aims.

Although many Bolivians and Latin American leaders continue to criticize the government, the fear of reprisal has had a chilling effect on the media and undercut the ability of judges to adjudicate politically sensitive cases.

Bolivia has several cases of arbitrary government abuse related to persecution of local governors. These governors of Bolivian states of Tarija, Pando and Cochabamba, are now living in exile in Paraguay and US.

Almost 50 years ago Che Guevara Lynch was killed in Bolivia. But todays Bolivia is in the process of falling under the same sort of repressive regime that he helped instill in Cuba. His violent works seem to have been forgotten by some and are now replaced by a sort of romanticism and mystique....But not in many areas of the world where Guevaras wounds are still remembered freshly and in countries where the repressive regimes of communism are rearing their ugly heads, like Bolivia.

Perhaps The Real Cuba.Com explained it best when they noted the popularity of the Che T shirts and posters proliferating in certain American circles:

"So why do so many well-heeled American liberals still admire this thug? Are the young simply ignorant of his execrable record and drawn to the image of the dashing young rebel? Do older progressives feel guilt for their free market prosperity, and showing solidarity with Che absolves them? Do hippies-turned-yuppies get nostalgic for their youthful protests and rationalize that the symbolism of Che as a “social reformer” eclipses his actual horrific human rights record? And are some American Guevaraistas truly dangerous leftists who seek to emulate their icon and destroy our free, democratic, capitalist society? Ask that guy wearing the Che t-shirt."

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merefalow | Aug 31, 2012, 07:11 PM EDT

you absolutely hate him don't you,well che lit a beacon against injustice,imperialism,exploitation,1%land ownership,slave labour,etc etc,its still burning and i hope it always will where there is exploitation and injustice,its you and the super rich resource market stealing multi national monopolies backed by your military killing machine who are the real murderers,how many millions slaughtered in your wars in the last 10 years?in the name of your twisted version of democracy.

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michaelidaho | Jul 31, 2012, 01:11 PM EDT

Monsoonman, Like most Communist revolutionaries, the revolution came first for Che above all else. Individual human rights and freedom were meaningless to him.

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Monsoonman | Jul 30, 2012, 08:58 PM EDT

Better yet Michaelinidaho, why don't you show where communism in Latin America made the lives of people better? Isn't that what Che and Fidel butchered those thousands of people for? Ask the Cubans who risk their lives in order to get off that devils island of cuba?

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michaelidaho | Jul 30, 2012, 10:23 AM EDT

A more balanced article would have been better. Maybe the author should explain how the conditions in Latin America gave rise to people like Che. Then maybe, discuss Che's failures and shortcomings.

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Monsoonman | Jul 28, 2012, 09:59 PM EDT

Truthla: You are delusional

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TruthLa | Jul 28, 2012, 08:42 PM EDT

the idea that anyone is hiding behind the skirts of the U.S. is a convenient illusion you've given yourselves.In fact, it your star is on the decline. You have killed far more people with your drone strikes in one year than Che Guevara ever did ‚ and he was not a terrorist but a soldier ousting a brutal dictator. Even Che's enemies ho actually fought against him (not just whined as you are doing) found him admirable and continue to live vicariously through his fame. I hardly think people like Nelson Mandela, Nasser, Jean Paul Sarte, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Italo Calvino can be called ignorant people, and they found him to be heroic, compassionate, and highly intelligent. It is you who are writing revisionist history about a true hero whose banner still flies all over the world, including in the streets of the United States. As for socialist utopian schemes taking countries down; on the contrary is well known the world over that the U.S.does everything in its power to bring down any government that opposed the expansion of its economic interests, even to the point of backing coups such as we have seen recently in Paraguay. I do not hate Americans but I am not buying into this, whether it is deliberate propaganda or just ignorance.

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Monsoonman | Jul 28, 2012, 12:54 PM EDT

I like the bravery of these socialists who hide behind the skirts of the USA and act tough...You can see where all of the socialist utopian schemes are taking the countries of the world who were hijacked by "greens" and "peoples parties" Right down the financial sewer

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paddyRanger | Jul 28, 2012, 10:49 AM EDT

Woundedknee ...cretin is at it again, "The Wall" or "Firing Squad" is the same outcome, what do you think against a Wall means? ........

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Monsoonman | Jul 27, 2012, 12:01 PM EDT

So many America haters on this site, the same parasites who live relatively rent free in freedom thanks to the USA in the first place. You don't like it when your revisionist history is exposed for what it is.

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TruthLa | Jul 27, 2012, 01:45 AM EDT

There is so much falsehood in this article it should be called fiction...and your translation is Che's statements is wrong. Bolivia is a democracy. Che was not a mass murderer and the only way you would come to that conclusion is by never reading all of his works and the many statements people like Nelson Mandela and Nasser said about him. His goal was to stop The U.s. from abusing people in "the other America" and effectively creating a continent of slave labour. This article would be laughable if it wasn't such a devious attempt to promote the ongoing interference and abuse of Latin Americans.

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WoundedKnee | Jul 26, 2012, 12:55 PM EDT

The ignorant Irish Central posters who attack the Catholic Church and praise the supposedly more enlightened Protestant fundamentals should be reminded that the Bolivian regime which murdered Che was headed by Born Again Bible Bums.

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WoundedKnee | Jul 26, 2012, 12:52 PM EDT

"We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall!" This is a really stupid mistranslation, rendering the original meaningless. The word "paredon" in Spanish is best translated as "firing squad".

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