Googlevideo "The True Story of Che Guevara"

Seems a lot more 'balanced' than Hollywood presentation as the Communist Jesus.  Those who idolize Che won't be persuaded by it, of course.  I find that it aired on History Channel, so there's a purpose to the subject matter being aired in 2007.

The documentary is typically History Channel.  It's very vague on details of his death.   I make note that the Brit commentator is saying the visage of Guevara laid out in his death photo resembles 'Christ'.

Che has been ancient history for decades -- a couple of years ago I'd have said nobody remembered him anymore.  I still thought people were over the old Commie Chic.  But here we go again. I know who watches History Channel -- white middle class suburbanites.  Che would strike fear into their minds.  Which makes me curious to know the demographic of the audience for this Che movie?   I know most people I know around here would be appalled.  I wonder -- how far does this sudden infatuation with re-tread Marxist revolutionaries go demographically?  I've known Hispanics and Latinos, the younger ones will go for it, and the movie is obviously pandering to them.  But I really have no idea if Che's got a following of admirers among confused white affluent suburbanite youth playing with ideological possibilities they have no memory about.  I remember Che was a hero to a lot of leftie youth in the late 60's, early 70's.  (talk about useful idiots...)  With them, I think Che sold and probably sells because, well, Che was 'hot'.  If he looked like Pancho Villa or even Castro who'd want the T-shirt?

Or what about young blacks?  (frankly I think young blacks are harder to con than either of these other demographic segments.)

I know little of the full history of Guevara, though I've already considered Castro and Che were working both sides of the ideological fence to see who'd give them the better deal. I always knew neither Fidel or Che came from the proletariat.  They were from the educated privileged class. They completed University careers that would have assured a productive, affluent life for either of them in their home countries.

One thing I do know first hand about Batista Cuba.  I grew up in Jacksonville, Florida.  The first wave of Cuban refugees were from this class -- a few of these families were place in my neighborhood.   They were normal, middle class professional people.  They were having a rough time fresh in the States - they still had that 'deer in the headlights' look from having to flee with the shirts on their backs to avoid getting shot.  So that's a part of the glorious revolution I know about.  Their crime was looking the other way from whatever injustices the commoners were going through under the former regime, but that's exactly like Americans under Bush, Persians under the Shah, and Germans under Hitler.
 
I don't know what's different in the minds of men like Castro and Che who abandoned an easy middle class life for the high risk crap shoot of international terrorism and blood spilling politics.  Ideology?  I doubt that -- I can't be sure about Che, but I know the Castros were what the State Department calls 'pragmatists' (they'll deal with anybody and can play any side of the fence).

Judging from all the photos I've seen of Fidel in full high degree complex Freemasonic embraces with the other world gangsters, like the Popes and Caesar Chavez,  Castro was really working the Freemasonic revolutionary racket knowingly wearing the Bolshevik drag and ideology because that was the role he was dealt.  Castro was invited to speak at the UN and the New York Times documents he told the press he wasn't a Communist and that the Cuban people wanted Democracy.  He wanted to meet Eisenhower but was rebuffed, and the State Department suspended his visa a few days early.  Next thing you know he's in Moscow cutting a deal with Kruschev. Was all of that just Freemasonic public relations?

I've considered the CIA bumped Che because they didn't need two Communist front men in Latin America at the time.  And maybe Castro understood that. Maybe Castro was getting nervous having 'superstar' Che on the team.  Evidently Che was restless with nothing left to do but run Cuban industry.  On the evidence of what they physically did during the bloody days of revolution and purging, Castro was fine delegating the killing while Che was more the 'hands on' type.  He may have been an adrenaline junkie.

To take a more educated guess, do you know who, if anyone, ordered Che to export the Marxist international revolution to Bolivia?  I've never studied Che much at all, but I found this, (the official story).

"In 1960 Che Guevara visited China and the Soviet Union. On his return he wrote two books Guerrilla Warfare and Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War. In these books he argued that it was possible to export Cuba's revolution to other South American countries. Che Guevara served as Minister for Industries (1961-65) but in April 1965 he resigned (some say he was fired, actually) and redirected his efforts to being a guerrilla leader in Bolivia."