A community portal about Che Guevara with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, commonly known as Che Guevara or el Che, was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, political figure, and...
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A community portal about Che Guevara with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, commonly known as Che Guevara or el Che, was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, political figure, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. As a young man studying medicine, Guevara travelled rough rough throughout Latin America, bringing him into direct contact with the impoverished conditions in which many people lived. His experiences and observations during these trips led him to the conclusion that the region's socioeconomic inequalities could only be remedied by revolution, prompting him to intensify his study of Marxism and travel to Guatemala to learn about the reforms being implemented there by President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán.
Matt Damon plays a pathological liar in Steven Soderbergh's "The Informant!" — the true-life story of an agribusiness executive who blows the whistle on his company's price fixing schemes with international competitors. Soderbergh said Monday at the Venice Film Festival, where his comedy is showing out of competition, that lying plays an important function in life — as long as the lies don't get out of hand. "I think lying is very important and necessary. It does take a lot of energy. It is... Read Full Story
Hollywood Celebrates Che Guevara But it makes no films about the Cuban resistance movement. By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY Hollywood hotshot Benicio Del Toro is not a stand-up comic, but he seemed to be playing one earlier this month when he said he found the role of Cuban Revolution hero Ernesto Guevara, in the new film "Che," like Jesus Christ. AP The Ladies in White march in front of Havana's Capitol building to protest the jailing of political dissidents, Dec. 10. "Only Jesus would turn the... Read Full Story
Cuba's best-known folk singer says he has a new song intended to "rehabilitate" the image of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara from the international super-brand seen on everything from coffee mugs to refrigerator magnets. Cuban singer Silvio Rodriguez said Thursday the song on his upcoming album returns the emphasis and meaning of Guevara's life to his struggle against imperialism, his love of being a revolutionary and his concept of socialism. All were far more complicated than much of... Read Full Story
"What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two; melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land." -- Ernesto Guevara de la Serna ( Gael García Bernal ), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) , screenplay by Jose Rivera , based on a book by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a book by Alberto Granado Read Full Story
I have a memory–a surprisingly distinct one, considering the circumstances–I was about nineteen, a sophomore in college, hanging out at a friend’s house, listening to records and going through his books. He had a large red book, a Che Guevara reader that I recognized not by the name (which I’d never heard pronounced) but rather by the iconic image of the Argentine Marxist revolutionary. Of course, I didn’t know that Che was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary at the time–I just knew the... Read Full Story
Miami-Dade judge Peter Adrien has awarded 73-year-old Gustavo Villoldo, a former CIA operative who had a hand in taking down Che Guevara, $1 billion following Villoldo’s claims that Fidel Castro and Guevara ruined his father’s businesses and drove him to suicide in 1959.
Judge Adrien says he awarded Villoldo such a huge amount of money because he wanted to garner attention from the Cuban government, who has of yet not responded to the suit nor made an effort to offer a defense in court... Read Full Story
About a year ago, I was on a train to Scotland, and there was a man across the aisle with an open laptop..he was playing a film on it, and I had a look. It was ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’ , the diary documenting the travels of the young medical student, Ernesto Guevara. I had heard of it, but never seen it. It was subtitled, and so I could follow the second hand screening on the train..till he shut the lid and got off the train! I was gasping! I didn’t see the end of the film!
I kept this in... Read Full Story
On Monday I had the pleasure to watch a screening of part one of Steven Sonderberg new movie Che. As the title suggests it is based on the revolutionary life of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, who is played brilliantly by Benicio Del Toro. It is a political movie on a par with Warren Beatty’s Reds, which looked at the life of the US communist John Read. Although Che has much less of the feel of Hollywood about it, in many ways it is a far more radical movie than Reds. It covers the period from when... Read Full Story
Benicio Del Toro as Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Che
Photo: IFC Films
If the life of the Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara were an ocean Steven Soderbergh's two-part Che biopic would symbolize two pebbles thrown into the vast sea as very little is accomplished from any standpoint outside of a great performance by Benicio Del Toro as the title character and the work of Steven Soderbergh working as his own director of photography. For all the love-hate there seems to be... Read Full Story
#tcot #che #revolution #teaparty I have a shirt I wear on occasion that has Che's mug on on it with a line through his face as in "no Che" ...most people these days (even my age) don't even know who he was and I often get puzzled looks. I've been told by one reader that I use the terms communist and socialist too much to describe the enemies of this Republic. It is not my fault that people are not taught real history. I can't find another descriptive term that works better than Marxist... Read Full Story
