Che, Hemingway not as cool as many think

I’ve never understood some people’s fascination and apparent glorification of Che Guevara, given their posters, t-shirts, etc. I chalk that up to their lack of knowledge/education and agree they should probably due a little more historical reading on Cuba, rather than just watching Godfather 2. If nothing else, Wiki it people!

 Fortunately, Huberto Fontova has a new book that looks to set people straight.

 “Hemingway hailed Castro’s revolution as ‘very pure and beautiful,’” Fontova said. “He was also a guest of honor at many of Che Guevara’s firing squad massacres. Hemingway loved to watch Che’s firing squads murder hundreds of Cubans. Hemingway would watch the massacres from a picnic chair while sipping Daiquiris.”  

Despite pushback, Fontova insists that Castro belongs on the same level as Hitler and Stalin in history’s catalogue of demonic dictators.

 The Reason blog has a nice take on ol' Che the murderer as well. They take Urban Outfitters to task for their pursuit of blood money.

From 1959 to 1960, the new government carried out summary executions of at least 1,118 people by firing squad. Guevara himself presided over the notorious La Cabaña prison, where hundreds of the executions took place. For comparison's sake, the Batista regime was responsible for 747 noncombatant deaths between 1952 and 1959. The Cuban revolution under the direction of Guevara also saw the rise of forced labor camps which gave way a few years later to full-scale concentration camps. These were filled with dissidents, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Afro-Cuban priests, and anyone else who had committed "crimes" against the new moral revolution.