Found this old commentary about the cult o’ Che’
Just tossing it out for background.
[quote]The Cult of Che - Don’t applaud The Motorcycle Diaries.
By Paul Berman, Posted Friday, Sept. 24, 2004, at 7:33 AM ET
The cult of Ernesto Che Guevara is an episode in the moral callousness of our time. Che was a totalitarian. He achieved nothing but disaster. Many of the early leaders of the Cuban Revolution favored a democratic or democratic-socialist direction for the new Cuba. But Che was a mainstay of the hardline pro-Soviet faction, and his faction won. Che presided over the Cuban Revolution’s first firing squads. He founded Cuba’s “labor camp” system
