Ch‚ just did all that to impress las chicas. Same with Castro, and it worked real good. Few know that Ch‚'s name really was Lynch, that's the appellido of his father. Ernesto Guevara Lynch de la Serna. "Ch‚" means "buddy" in Argentina. He grew up in C¢rdoba, not far from PFG's claim, and supported Per¢n from the Oct 45 revolution. One great thing he did for Cuba - he negotiated the oil-for-sugar deal with the USSR.
It was Korda who made him famous with that photo on the posters. All that hero stuff is bullshit, it's like George Washington and the cherry tree. He was a lousy comunista, more of an anarchist. If he had hung around in Cuba, Fidel would have shot him. Here's his slant on economics;
"Man really attains the state of complete humanity when he produces, without being forced by physical need to sell himself as a commodity."
Well, you can imagine how that went over. Pretty hard to line the boys up in straight rows and neat uniforms when you introduce a concept like humanity.
Batista, he was a real prize, imagine Parizeau in a general's cap, with an army. But they've known worse down there. |
