Up Against the Wall

Today is the 42nd anniversary of the summary execution of Ernesto “Che” Guevara by the Bolivian military on October 9, 1967. I have had a special interest in Che since learning that an Army ROTC friend’s father was a member of the US Army Special Forces group that was advising and training the Bolivian Ranger Battalion that hunted Che down and shot him. My Hispanic friend was proud as he should have been that his father helped to bring the sociopathic terrorist to justice. It was certainly fitting that the man who was Castro’s chief executioner and who had executed thousands of free Cubans, who dared to resist the communist takeover of their country, was shot without trial or legal recourse since he had denied these “archaic bourgeois” rights to his own victims.

Almost everything that most Americans have heard about Guevara are outright lies or distortions by America’s traitorous socialist sympathizers. Perhaps the first lie is that he was an Argentinian doctor. Ernesto was a medical student but he failed to complete his training program and instead drifted around Latin America until he met the Castro brothers in Mexico City and decided to join the communist revolutionaries. During the war against Batista he led a column of guerrillas who quickly became more terrified of their leader than of their supposed enemies. Paranoia and a sadistic delight in torture and murder were the hallmarks of Che’s “leadership”. He personally shot many of his own men for real or imagined crimes in his paranoid pursuit of informers, deserters and spies.

Recognizing Che’s talent for cold blooded murder and perhaps wishing to set up his potential revolutionary rival as a scapegoat in the mind’s of the Cuban people, Castro charged Guevara with running the revolutionary prison at La Cabana Fortress during the first half of 1959. Although the actual numbers of Cubans executed at La Cabana will probably never be known it is estimated that many thousands were killed during the communists early rule over Cuba. Che infamously stated in his opposition to some attempts by Cuban judges to gather evidence and conduct real trials that, “We manufacture evidence. We execute from Revolutionary conviction. Judicial evidence is an archaic bourgeois detail that we will not use.” Witnesses of Che’s time as Castro’s chief executioner remember the glee with which he went about his duties and the pleasure that he took in personally administering the final pistol shot to the head of the victims of his firing squads.

Humberto Fontova recounted this time in his American Thinker essay linked below by remembering one small family group of “class enemies” murdered at La Cabana by Guevara:

“Even as a youth Ernesto Guevara’s writings revealed a serious mental illness. “My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any vencido that falls into my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!’ This passage is from Ernesto Guevara’s famous Motorcyle Diaries, though Robert Redford somehow overlooked it while directing his heart-warming movie.”

Humberto Frontova continues:

“The Spanish word vencido, by the way, translates into ‘defeated’ or “surrendered”. And indeed the ‘acrid odor of gunpowder and blood’ very, very rarely reached Guevara’s nostrils from anything properly describable as combat. It mostly came from close-range murders of unarmed and defenseless men (and boys.) Carlos Mechado was 15 years old in 1963 when the bullets from the firing squad shattered his body. His twin brother and father collapsed beside Carlos from the same volley. All had resisted Castro and Che’s theft of their humble family farm, all refused blindfolds and all died sneering at their Communist murderers, as did thousands of their valiant countrymen. ‘Viva Cuba Libre! Viva Cristo Rey! Abajo Comunismo!”

Che Guevara’s Wacking

Americans thanks in main to our leftist main stream media and intelligentsia know almost nothing about the fact that AFTER the supposed conquest of the Cuban Communist ordinary Cuban’s fought a real guerrilla war of resistance for years against the communist who were destroying the people’s religion and confiscating their private property in a Utopian pursuit of the communist heaven on earth. After using Che to kill off many of the new regimes enemies among the common people Castro soon found a new mission to get his young competitor out of the way, the pursuit of world revolution. Thus in 1965 Che found himself in Africa at the head of the Cuban effort to assist in launching a communist revolutionary front in the Katanga Region of the Congo.

Guevara wanted to test his “detonator theory” of revolution that maintained that a little well placed and thought out violence could kick start a general revolution. He soon found that the Cuban’s chosen African leader, Laurant Kabila, was in Che’s own words, “addicted to drink and women”. Further the African People’s Liberation Army that he had to work with “was a parasite army, it did not work, did not train, did not fight and demanded provisions and labor from the populace, sometimes with extreme harshness.”

After seven months of futile effort Che gave up on Africa. He deserted the Congo and abandoned his idealistic hopes for world revolution. He explained his failure to assist the Congo revolution by blaming the Africans, stating, “The Negro is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward looking, organized and intelligent.” He came to believe from his Congo experience that the African blacks were too incompetent to make socialist government work.

Those of us who actually know Che’s history and have read some of his writings have watched with amusement as he has been whitewashed into a poster boy for multicultural revolution. The photos of Obama campaign offices with inspiring Che posters on the wall are especially ridiculous and more proof that American socialist by and large are ignorant and unschooled in real history even of their own socialist heroes.

Guevara was reluctant to return to Cuba where the ever dangerous Castro had released a letter that should have only been released if Che died that proclaimed that Che had severed his ties with Cuba in service to the greater cause of worldwide revolution. After hiding out in Dar es Salaam and Prague for a number of months working on his writing of his experiences in Africa, he decided on Bolivia as his next revolutionary project.

Bolivia during the late 1960’s turned out to be another poor choice for the would be world revolutionary mastermind. The peasants of Bolivia were conservative in outlook as many already owned their own small farms and thus had nothing to gain from radical communists seizure and collectivization of the land. They distrusted Che and his small band of foreigners and he absolutely failed to recruit the peasants to his cause. Following his pattern from Africa of blaming the people he was supposed to be organizing for his revolutionary failure he wrote letters accusing the Bolivian Communist Party of being, “distrustful, disloyal and stupid.”

Che wandered around for months often lost and always hungry with an ever shrinking band of guerrillas. One of his last complaints was against the people of Bolivia who had rejected his call to revolution, writing in his diary, “the peasants do not give us any help, and are turning into informers.” The Bolivian Ranger’s with their American Special Forces advisers soon ran his group to ground. Instead of going out in a blaze of glory, Che when faced with well trained and resolute opponents instead of broken, bound and unarmed peasants suddenly forgot his own rhetoric about his great fury and staining his rifle red and meekly dropped his loaded weapons without attempting to resist. Crying for mercy that he denied his own prisoners, Che wailed, “Don’t shoot! I’m Che! I’m worth more to you alive than dead.” The Bolivian soldiers were well disciplined and they took him into custody and waited for word from the Bolivian government as to what they should do with him.

Evidently the Bolivian President disagreed with Che’s self assessment as to his own worth and the order was issued to execute him in the field and report that he had died during combat. Not long after receiving the phone call a Bolivian sergeant put nine rounds into Ernesto “Che” Guevara and ended forever his meddling in other people’s countries. Since then he has proved to be worth much more dead to communist would be revolutionaries and budding capitalist T-shirt salesmen the world over than he ever was alive. The great weakness of popular democracy is that the majority of the people are inevitably ignorant and happy to be led by anyone promising more free milk and cookies. Che Guevara has been made into a Marxist Saint and like the ideology that he represents his record is one of failure and lies.

(Che Poster from The People’s Cube)

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Originally posted at Light in the Forest © Jesse James

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