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This single photograph of argentinian born cuban revolutionary Che Guevara stands out as one of the most powerful photographs of the last century.

The emotions that this man continues to evoke even today among ordinary people are so strong that I find it hard to believe he has been dead for decades.

You might have seen this image on T-Shirts,books...

Alberto Korda was the photographer who took the picture of Che Guevara that became an icon of left-wing revolutionaries and students worldwide.

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Che Guevara was tracked down and executed by a American trained unit of the bolivian army. His hands were subsquently chopped of and sent as ID proof.

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Above is a picture of Felix Rodriguez(The man on the left ) with a captured Che Guevara. Felix was a CIA trained operative who supervised the capture and exectution of Che Guevara.Rodriguez is know to show Guevara's Rolex watch which he took as a sovenir.

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Nothing but an ordinary hoodlum who whimsically murdered the innocent, industrious opulent, the apolitical and intellectuals

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Felix Rodriguez should be awarded posthumously in all universities as the man who prevented him into turning Bolivia into another Vietnam. Long live Felix! God is with him!

maldita

Jun 8 2007, 02:52 PM

"Che was the most complete human being of our age."
-Jean-Paul Sartre...you do know who Sartre is, don't you, Epigone?  He was no hoodlum, sir, he was anything but that.

Even the most cursory examination of 1990s popular culture reminds us that Che Guevara has emerged as one of the most enduring icons of the century.

But that does not mean that there is agreement on his legacy. In the United States, he is often remembered merely as a relic of the revolutionary 1960s. In Europe, especially among the young, he has emerged as a pop icon with no grounding in history.

But in Cuba, Che is a symbol of hope and faith. As became obvious to me during a recent trip to that Caribbean nation, where I attended a conference that examined his legacy and discussed the outpouring of new books regarding this remarkable figure, the Cubans view Che as a true renaissance man.

As a doctor, teacher, journalist, photographer, banker, minister of industry, skilled negotiator representing Cuba at world summits, and, of course, a skilled military commander and guerrilla fighter, Che has truly come to be seen by Cubans as a man of the 21st century.



Excerpt from The Death of Che Guevara, explaining Rodriguez's role in Che's execution:

Although he apparently was under CIA instructions to "do everything possible to keep him alive," Rodriguez transmitted the order to execute Guevara from the Bolivian High Command to the soldiers at La Higueras — he also directed them not to shoot Guevara in the face so that his wounds would appear to be combat-related [to cover up the illegal execution without trial] — and personally informed Che that he would be killed. After the execution, Rodriguez took Che's Rolex watch, often proudly showing it to reporters during the ensuing years. EPIGONE, WHAT KIND OF AWARD -- POSTHUMOUS OR NOT -- SHOULD BE GIVEN TO A MAN LIKE FELIX RODRIGUEZ WHO STEALS A DEAD MAN'S WATCH SO HE CAN SHOW IT OFF TO MEDIA?

On June 30, 1987, a story leaked out of Senator John Kerry’s Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism and Narcotics accusing Felix Rodriguez, one of the most extraordinary agents in the history of the CIA, of soliciting a $10 million donation from the Colombian cocaine cartel.

The story had its basis in the sealed testimony of Ramon Milian Rodriguez, a convicted money launderer for the Columbian cocaine cartel.

On the night of July 16/July 17, 1918, a squad of Bolshevik secret police led by Yakov Yurovsky executed Russia's last Emperor, Tsar Nicholas II, along with his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse, their four daughters, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, and their son Alexei. Along with the family, three other servants were also killed. All were shot in a half-cellar room (measured to be 13 feet x 7 feet) of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, a city in the Ural Mountains region, where they were being held prisoner.

In a detailed report of the killings prepared in 1934 and held in the Soviet archives, Yurovsky stated that he had shot the Tsar and his son himself, while his comrades killed the other members of the royal family. The killings were said to be have been botched by the firing squad; the bullets failed to kill the family, and the jewelry sewed into the daughters clothes acted as a bullet proof vest.

The daughters were finished off with close range shots to the head, after attempts to bayonet them also failed. Recently, it has been discovered that Yurovsky himself killed Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia with a single bullet through the back of her head.

Do you think the Russians will ever forgive Yakov Yurovsky for BUTCHERING the Romanovs, Epigone?  Will the Cuans or Bolivians ever forgive Felix Rodriguez for BARBARICALLY killing Che Guevara?