Spirit of Che rises again as region is swept along on a pink tide

[kskiska]

Source: The Guardian

Close to 40 years after his death, the revolutionary is more than ever a hero

When the haggard and broken figure was laid out on the slab and displayed to the world it was not just Che Guevara that had died. The dream of socialist revolution in South America was over.

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An elaborate ceremony in Vallegrande, the town where his corpse was displayed, will be just one of many government-backed rallies across the Andes and the Caribbean.

"Che is greater and more present than ever," said Oswaldo "Chato" Peredo, a Bolivian former guerrilla whose brother, Roberto, was executed alongside the communist icon.

Portraits of the pair hang in Vallegrande's main square. Locals speak with reverence of Che's "Christ-like" corpse. They hold masses for the doctor-turned-guerrilla and pray at Che altars in their homes.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2161848,00.html

[midnight]

1. Former doctor who invokes similarities to christ. Interesting too, because

christ was a healer.

[msongs]

2. che was a socipathic serial killing murderer who deserved what he got nt

[GirlinContempt]

3. Huh?

[Mika]

4. Please, don't waste your time.

Its glued and set in place. Nothing you can do.

[GirlinContempt]

5. But come ON

You don't just make a statement like that without.... SOMETHING more than just the statement.
Really.

[Tyler Durden]

8. Why?

There are lots of people who drop "POST BOMBS" of personal opinion without backing it up.

Don't worry about it too much. Life goes on. Maybe.

[GirlinContempt]

9. Well, of course they *can*

It's just derisory.

[redqueen]

13. aaahaahahaahahahahah

you're funny!

[bemildred]

6. You can kill people, but you can't kill ideas. nt

[Tyler Durden]

7. About Fucking time.

Although the "pink" reference still invites the "Red Menace" label.

Too bad that social fairness usually has to be imposed on the Power Elite at the business end of a deadly weapon. You'd think they might have learned since the fall of the Roman Empire.

Apparently not.

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. Hmm. I think I'm beginning to understand why in America, individualism is

harolded more than cooperation. Because, a nation that learns to cooperate and care about each other, will create too much of a challenge to the top rich 10%. Cooperation = socialism? Individualism = Capitalism?

[redqueen]

14. precisely. n/t

[redqueen]

15. it seems no amount of learning will cure selfishness / greed n/t

[bemildred]

10. Fulgencio Batista, on the other hand, is still dead and forgotten.

http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/batista.htm

[Tyler Durden]

12. Best not infer Castro changed ANYTHING for the better.

Step on that bull's eye and you're the target of the hour around here. LOTS of "Brothers to the RESCUE" around here to piss down your back and comment on the rain.