A History Lesson For Jesse Ventura On His Hero Che Guevara

Cuban-American author Humberto Fontova offers a history for Jesse Ventura on his hero Che Guevara in a column at Townhall.com.

“I respect the fact that he would die for his convictions. So a mirror of Che Guevara has a profound place in my house. I’m not the least ashamed to say that when I go to wash my hands I look at Che,” gloats Jesse Ventura.

"The jury saw the evidence,” gloats Jesse Ventura regarding his judicial victory over Chris Kyle’s widow. “And the jury found that I had been defamed….Chris Kyle did lie and Jesse Ventura told the truth. I am a victim here."

“Judicial evidence is an archaic bourgeois detail. We execute (and jail and torture and steal) based on revolutionary conviction.” (Jesse Ventura’s source of daily inspiration, Che Guevara, February 13, 1959.)

Maybe it’s a coincidence that Jesse Ventura draws daily inspiration from a regime that jailed and tortured the most women political prisoners of any regime in the Americas —indeed, that introduced this Stalinist horror to the Western Hemisphere?  

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2014/08/08/a-history-lesson-for-jesse-ventura-on-his-hero-che-guevara-n1876505

You can also read my Counterterrorism magazine interview with Humberto Fontova via the below links:

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And you can read my Counterterrorism magazine piece on the hunt for Che Guevara via the below link:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2013/11/my-piece-on-look-back-at-hunt-and.html  

Che Guevara's Image Doesn't Fit Ghastly Reality

Cuban-American Humberto Fontova offers his take on the Communist revolutionary Ernesto "Che' Guevara in the Miami Herald.

Good thing the college “hipsters” who wear Che T-shirts didn’t live in Stalinist Cuba under their idol.

“Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates!” snarled the KGB-mentored Che Guevara in 1961. “Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service! Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think of individuals! Individualism must disappear from Cuba!

By the mid-’60s, the crime of a “rocker” lifestyle (blue jeans, long hair, fondness for the Beatles and Stones) or effeminate behavior got thousands of youths yanked out of Cuba’s streets and parks by Che’s KGB-trained secret police and dumped in prison camps with “Work Will Make Men Out of You” emblazoned in bold letters above the gate and with machine-gunners posted on the watchtowers. The initials for these camps were UMAP, not GULAG, but the conditions were quite similar.      

Today, the world’s largest image of the man whom so many college hipsters sport on their shirts adorns Cuba’s headquarters and torture chambers for its KGB-trained secret police. Nothing could be more fitting.  

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link: 

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/10/16/3693495/che-guevaraa-image-doesnt-fit.html 

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Re-Branding Guevara: Che The Butcher

 

John Fund at National Review Online offers an interesting piece on the violent history (and myth) and continuing influence of the communist guerrilla Che Guevara.

The stern photo of revolutionary Che Guevara taken by Alberto Korda in 1960 is one of the most reproduced images on the planet, appearing on posters, flags, postcards, T-shirts, and even bikinis. Sadly, the ubiquitous appearances of Che — hailed today usually by his first name only — demonstrate the near-total failure to educate people about the blood-soaked cruelty he really represented. 

... After Fidel Castro seized power in 1959, Che was instrumental in setting up forced-labor camps for dissidents, gays, and devout Catholics. He was put in charge of La Cabaña Fortress prison for five months. There are varying accounts of how many people were executed under his command during that time, and how many deaths are attributed directly to Che as opposed to the regime overall, but some sources say that more than 100 journalists, businessmen, and followers of the previous regime faced death by firing squad at La Cabaña, under Che’s jurisdiction.

... Nor was Che’s violence directed only against Cubans. Author Humberto Fontova points to evidence that Guevara, the chief instigator of Castro’s revolutionary efforts overseas, was involved in a November 1962 terrorist plot to use 1,200 pounds of TNT to blow up Macy’s, Gimbels, Bloomingdale’s, and Grand Central Station on the day after Thanksgiving, the busiest shopping day of the year. Such an act could have rivaled 9/11 in its destruction. This is hardly a man who deserves to be honored as a hero on T-shirts.

You can read the rest of the column via the below link:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/321089/re-branding-guevara-che-butcher-john-fund#

You can also read my interview with Humberto Fontova about Che Guevara via the below links:

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A Letter To the People Of Ireland: Don't Build A Monument To Che Guevara

Yale Professor Carlos Eire wrote a letter to the Irish Times in response to the plans by the City of Galway to erect a statue of Ernesto "Che" Guevara.  The Irish Times declined to publish the letter, but National Review didn't.

The awful truth about Ernesto “Che” Guevara is that he was a violent thug with despotic tendencies. Che’s admirers prefer to think of him as a righteous warrior, and often cite certain books that portray him as a saint. I hate to break the news to them: Some books are full of lies. Fortunately, others are not, like the memoir Cuba 1959, "La Galera de la Muerte," written by Javier Arzuaga, the priest who accompanied all of Che’s victims to the firing squad during the first nine months of the so-called Revolution. Read it and weep, please, all of you who love Che. We Cubans are the only people on earth who knew the real Che — as opposed to the icon stamped on all sorts of merchandise — but there are many in the world who tune us out, discredit our testimony, and would love to gag us. Somehow, the lie is preferable.

You can read the rest of the letter via the below link:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/294367/don-t-erect-monument-che-carlos-eire

Note: I interviewed Cuban-American Humberto Fontova, author of Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him, for Counterterrorism magazine a few years ago.

You can read the interview via the below links:

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Bob Beckel's Che Guevara Romance

Cuban-American Humberto Fontova, author of Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him, wrote an interesting piece for Frontpagemag.com on Bob Beckel's positive comments about Che Guevara.

Appearing on FoxNews' "The Five," Beckel praised the late communist thug and murderer as a "freedom fighter" and claimed he still had his old Che Guevara poster.

You can read Fontova's responce via the below link:

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/15/bob-beckels-che-guevara-romance/

I interviewed Humberto Fontova a few years ago for Counterterrorism magazine. You can read the interview via the below links:

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Yes, Him Again: Che Guevara Diaries Are Published 44 Years After His Death

Communist Cuba is releasing Che Guevara's unpublished diaries 44 years after his death in Bolivia.

The British newspaper the Guardian offers a droll and clever report on the Guevara diaries and his life.

You can read the newspaper piece via the below link:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/15/pass-notes-che-guevara     

You can learn more about Che Guevara by reading my Counterterrorism magazine interview with Humberto Fontova, author of Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him, via the below links:

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An Anniversary Of Heroism And Shame - The Bay Of Pigs At Fifty

This weekend is the 50th anniversary of a dark page in America history - the Bay of Pigs invasion of Fidel Castro's Communist Cuba and the Kennedy administration's failure to fully support the brave Bay of Pigs Brigade.

The above photo is of the Bay of Pigs Memorial in Miami, Florida.

Humberto Fontova, an anti-Castro Cuban-American, wrote an interesting piece about the Bay of Pigs fiasco for FrontPageMag.com.

You can read the piece via the below link:

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/04/15/an-anniversary-of-heroism-and-shame%e2%80%94the-bay-of-pigs-at-fifty/

Humberto Fontova also wrote an interesting book called Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize him.

I interviewed Fontova for Counterterrorism magazine. You can read the piece via the below links:

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The Bay of Pigs - An Anniversary of Heroism and Shame

Cuban-American columnist Humberto Fontova wrote an interesting column about the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, which occurred in April of 1961.
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It was a dark moment in American history. I believe we should have fully supported the brigade and helped them overthrow Fidel Castro and his Communist regime.
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You can read his column, the Bay of Pigs - An Anniversary of Heroism and Shame, via the link below:
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http://townhall.com/columnists/HumbertoFontova/2010/04/13/the_bay_of_pigs%E2%80%94an_anniversary_of_heroism_and_shame?page=1
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Humberto Fontova, the author of Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him, appeared on the Glenn Beck TV program in a video piece about Che Guevara.

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I interviewed Fontova for Counterterrorism magazine a while back about Che Guevara and you can read my piece via the below links:

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Che, Part One And Che, Part Two: The Films That Celebrate A Murderer And Communist Thug

 

I have long been interested in Che Guevara, although I am hardly an admirer, and I’ve read scores of books about him, including his Bolivia war diary and his other works.

So as a student of history, as well as a film buff, I forced myself to sit through the two long films about Che Guevara last week on the IFC cable channel.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh with Benicio Del Toro as Guevara, the film was made in two parts with the first part dealing with Guevara’s participation in the Cuban revolution, while the second part jumps ahead to Guevara’s vain and failed attempt to bring violent Communist revolution to Bolivia.

The film smartly skips right over Guevara’s role as the bloody chief executioner of scores of Cubans after the revolution, and his subsequent disastrous handling of the Cuban economy as the minister of finance.

I say smartly, as Del Toro, who produced the films, and director Soderbergh are great admirers of the late revolutionary. Rather, they are admirers of Guevara’s phony iconic reputation. The reality is quite another matter.

The films show Guevara in his best light, with numerous scenes of him healing the sick and wounded (Guevara was a doctor before he was a murderer), but they only offer one scene of him executing people. And those men were Cuban deserters, rapists and murderers. There were no scenes of him putting bullets through prisoners’ heads, or gleefully overseeing mass executions in Cuba.

Humbert Fontova, like me, does not share the romantic view of Guevara.

He wrote an interesting piece for http://www.newsmax.com/ that offers another point of view.

I interviewed Fontova for Counterterrorism magazine. I'm a contributing editor to the quarterly magazine for law enforcement, government and military people worldwide.

You can read the Fontova interview via the links below:

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