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|Image = CheHigh.jpg
|image = [[File:Che Guvera.jpg|thumb|300px|right]]
|fullname = Ernesto Guevara
|fullname = Ernesto "Che" Guevara
|alias = Saint Ernesto<br>The Butcher of La Cabaña<br>El Fuser
|alias = Saint Ernesto<br>The Butcher of La Cabaña<br>El Fuser
|origin = Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
|origin = Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
|occupation = Minister of Industries of Cuba (1961 - 1965)<br>President of the Central Bank of Cuba (1959 - 1961)
|occupation = Revolutionary leader
|skills = Training in guerrilla warfare<br>Knowledge of leftist politics and Marxism
|skills = Training in guerrilla warfare<br>Knowledge of leftist politics and Marxism
|hobby = Playing chess<br>Writing up death lists<br>Reading<br>Killing people
|hobby = Playing chess<br>Writing up death lists<br>Reading<br>Killing people
|goals = Establish communist rule in Cuba (succeeded)<br>Spread communism to other countries (partially successful)
|goals = Establish communist rule in Cuba (succeeded)<br>Spread communism to other countries (partially successful)
|crimes = [[War crimes]]<br>[[Terrorism]]<br>[[Homophobia]]<br>Mass [[murder]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>Human rights violations<br>[[Torture]]<br>[[Americophobia]]<br>[[Religious discrimination]]<br>[[Acephobia]]
|crimes = [[War crimes]]<br>[[Terrorism]]<br>[[Homophobia]]<br>Mass [[murder]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>Human rights violations<br>[[Torture]]
|type of villain = Delusional Totalitarian
|type of villain = Delusional Totalitarian
|motive =  
|motive =  
|name=Evil-doer}}
}}
{{Quote|We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.|Che Guevara}}
{{Quote|We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.|Che Guevara}}
'''Ernesto Guevara''' also known as '''Che Guevara''' (June 14, 1928 - October 9, 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution and the [[Cold War]], his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia within popular culture.
'''Ernesto "Che" Guevara''' (June 14, 1928 - October 9, 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution and the [[Cold War]], his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia within popular culture.


==Biography==
==Biography==
As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed. His burgeoning desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Árbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow at the behest of the United Fruit Company solidified Guevara's political ideology. Later, while living in Mexico City, he met Raúl and [[Fidel Castro]], joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht, Granma, with the intention of overthrowing Cuban dictator [[Fulgencio Batista]]. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second-in-command, and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime. He also played a key role in the founding of the [[Communist Party of Cuba]].
As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed. His burgeoning desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Árbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow at the behest of the United Fruit Company solidified Guevara's political ideology. Later, while living in Mexico City, he met Raúl and [[Fidel Castro]], joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht, Granma, with the intention of overthrowing Cuban dictator [[Fulgencio Batista]]. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second-in-command, and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.


Following the Cuban Revolution, Guevara performed a number of key roles in the new government. These included reviewing the appeals and firing squads for those convicted as [[War crimes|war criminals]] during the revolutionary tribunals, instituting agrarian land reform as minister of industries, helping spearhead a successful nationwide literacy campaign, serving as both national bank president and instructional director for Cuba’s armed forces, and traversing the globe as a diplomat on behalf of Cuban socialism. Such positions also allowed him to play a central role in training the militia forces who repelled the Bay of Pigs Invasion and bringing the Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles to Cuba which precipitated the 1962 [[Cuban Missile Crisis]].
Following the Cuban Revolution, Guevara performed a number of key roles in the new government. These included reviewing the appeals and firing squads for those convicted as [[War crimes|war criminals]] during the revolutionary tribunals, instituting agrarian land reform as minister of industries, helping spearhead a successful nationwide literacy campaign, serving as both national bank president and instructional director for Cuba’s armed forces, and traversing the globe as a diplomat on behalf of Cuban socialism. Such positions also allowed him to play a central role in training the militia forces who repelled the Bay of Pigs Invasion and bringing the Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles to Cuba which precipitated the 1962 [[Cuban Missile Crisis]].
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Later he traveled to Bolivia, where he was captured by CIA-assisted Bolivian forces and summarily executed. Many people also need to come to grips with the [[crimes against humanity]] that Che Guevara and his fellow guerilla soldiers committed against Cuban civilians to achieve victory and secure authoritarian rule under the Castro brothers. Learning the truth will debunk the mythology the regime uses to indoctrinate the Cuban people and hold them back from asserting their human rights.
Later he traveled to Bolivia, where he was captured by CIA-assisted Bolivian forces and summarily executed. Many people also need to come to grips with the [[crimes against humanity]] that Che Guevara and his fellow guerilla soldiers committed against Cuban civilians to achieve victory and secure authoritarian rule under the Castro brothers. Learning the truth will debunk the mythology the regime uses to indoctrinate the Cuban people and hold them back from asserting their human rights.


Before Che's revolutionary days in Cuba, he revealed to his parents his psychopathic personality. He wrote to his father that he had discovered he loved to kill. He wrote to his mother that "I am all the contrary of a Christ." The Cuban revolution provided Che an outlet and pretext for acting on his psychosis. He boasted, for example: "A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate." 
Che was a cold-hearted killer, who, even before his revolutionary days in Cuba, revealed to his parents his psychopathic personality. He wrote to his father that he had discovered he loved to kill. He wrote to his mother that “I am all the contrary of a Christ.The Cuban revolution provided Che an outlet and pretext for acting on his psychosis. He boasted, for example: "A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate." 


In ''Notas de Viaje'', Che wrote the following: "…and I know, because I see it printed in the night, that I, the eclectic dissector of doctrines and psychoanalyst of dogmas, howling like possessed, will assault the barricades or trenches, will stain in blood my weapon and, mad of fury, will slit the throats of any defeated who fall into my hands…'
In ''Notas de Viaje'', Che wrote the following:  "…and I know, because I see it printed in the night, that I, the eclectic dissector of doctrines and psychoanalyst of dogmas, howling like possessed, will assault the barricades or trenches, will stain in blood my weapon and, mad of fury, will slit the throats of any defeated who fall into my hands…’


Che was prepared to attack on the United States by launching lethal nuclear attacks on U.S. cities, citing the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. He wrote: "If the missiles had remained, we would have used them against the very heart of America including New York…We must walk the path of liberation even if it costs millions of atomic victims."
Che was prepared to use the 1962 Cuban missile crisis as an excuse to wreak death & destruction on the United States by launching lethal nuclear attacks on U.S. cities. He wrote: "If the missiles had remained, we would have used them against the very heart of America including New York…We must walk the path of liberation even if it costs millions of atomic victims."


While many people Lionize Che & his sayings many are completely unaware of some of Che Guevara's other slogans:
While many people Lionize Che & his sayings many are completely unaware of some of Che Guevara's other slogans:
* "The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind!"
* "The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind!"
* "Against those hyenas [Americans] there is no option but extermination!"
* “Against those hyenas [Americans] there is no option but extermination!
* "We will bring the war to the imperialist enemies’ very home, to his places of work and recreation. The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we’ll destroy him [the U.S.]!"
* "We will bring the war to the imperialist enemies’ very home, to his places of work and recreation. The imperialist enemy must feel like a hunted animal wherever he moves. Thus we’ll destroy him [the U.S.]!"
* "We must keep our hatred [against the U.S.] alive and fan it to paroxysm!"
* “We must keep our hatred [against the U.S.] alive and fan it to paroxysm!
* “If the nuclear missiles had remained [in Cuba] we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City. The victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!”
* “If the nuclear missiles had remained [in Cuba] we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City. The victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!”
U.S. taxpayers pay U.S. government employees to celebrate the author of the charming sentiments above. Fine. As usual only a few Americans of Cuban heritage have complained about the EPA's "gaffe."  As usual, most of the people Che Guevara craved to incinerate view this EPA "gaffe" as a silly obsession by hyper-sensitive and loudmouthed Cuban-Americans.
U.S. taxpayers pay U.S. government employees to celebrate the author of the charming sentiments above. Fine. As usual only a few Americans of Cuban heritage have complained about the EPA’s "gaffe."  As usual, most of the people Che Guevara craved to incinerate view this EPA "gaffe" as a silly obsession by hyper-sensitive and loudmouthed Cuban-Americans.


But Che Guevara's hate-obsession was actually the U.S. Most of the defenseless Cubans he murdered in cold blood, he murdered because he thought they were affiliated with the U.S. ("U.S.–backed" Batista, the CIA, etc.) In fact, probably 90 percent of the men (and boys, and some women) his regime murdered had no affiliation with Batista whatsoever and most had fought the Batista regime—but alas, as non-Communists.
But Che Guevara’s hate-obsession was actually the U.S.  Most of the defenseless Cubans he murdered in cold blood, he murdered because he thought they were affiliated with the U.S. ("U.S.–backed" Batista, the CIA, etc.) In fact, probably 90 percent of the men (and boys, and some women) his regime murdered had no affiliation with Batista whatsoever and most had fought the Batista regime—but alas, as non-Communists.


Since the U.S. government insists on these ethnic celebrations here's an idea: Instead of  celebrating a foreign "Hispanic" who dreamed of incinerating and entombing millions of U.S. citizens and obliterating the U.S. as a political entity, why not celebrate a U.S. citizen of Hispanic heritage who voluntarily put his life repeatedly on the line to defend United States? Better still, this American of Hispanic heritage played a key role in capturing the foreign Hispanic who craved to murder millions of Americans.
Since the U.S. government insists on these ethnic celebrations here's an idea: Instead of  celebrating a foreign "Hispanic" who dreamed of incinerating and entombing millions of U.S. citizens and obliterating the U.S. as a political entity, why not celebrate a U.S. citizen of Hispanic heritage who voluntarily put his life repeatedly on the line to defend United States? Better still, this American of Hispanic heritage played a key role in capturing the foreign Hispanic who craved to murder millions of Americans.
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Felix flew over 300 helicopter combat missions during the [[Vietnam War]], and was shot down five times. He won the coveted Intelligence Star for Valor from the CIA and nine Crosses for Gallantry from the Republic of South Vietnam. Later he battled Communists in El Salvador using a helicopter "mobile strike unit" scheme he developed in Vietnam. He flew over 100 combat missions in Central America, captured the FMLF's top commander and helped crush those Communist-terrorists decisively. All this was volunteer work.
Felix flew over 300 helicopter combat missions during the [[Vietnam War]], and was shot down five times. He won the coveted Intelligence Star for Valor from the CIA and nine Crosses for Gallantry from the Republic of South Vietnam. Later he battled Communists in El Salvador using a helicopter "mobile strike unit" scheme he developed in Vietnam. He flew over 100 combat missions in Central America, captured the FMLF's top commander and helped crush those Communist-terrorists decisively. All this was volunteer work.


Later, as a CIA operative, Rodriguez played a key role in tracking down and capturing Che Guevara in Bolivia and was the last to question him. "Finally I was face to face with the assassin of thousands of my countrymen, of hundreds of my patriot friends," he recalls. But his mission was trying to save Che's life, to transport him to the Southern Command in Panama for questioning.
Later, as a CIA operative, Rodriguez played a key role in tracking down and capturing Che Guevara in Bolivia and was the last to question him. “Finally I was face to face with the assassin of thousands of my countrymen, of hundreds of my patriot friends,he recalls.  But his mission was trying to save Che's life, to transport him to the Southern Command in Panama for questioning.


Alas, Felix's Bolivian allies viewed the matter differently. And it was, after all, their nation under Communist attack. So they decided on a policy that has since become a favorite among Americans who encounter (so-called) endangered species on their property: "Shoot, shovel, and shut-up."
Alas, Felix’s Bolivian allies viewed the matter differently. And it was, after all, their nation under Communist attack. So they decided on a policy that has since become a favorite among Americans who encounter (so-called) endangered species on their property: "Shoot, shovel, and shut-up."


Castro wants Felix Rodriguez's head and has sent hit-team after hit-team, after hit-team (including one lent to him by his late chum [[Yasser Arafat]]) to murder Felix and his family in Florida. In May 1975, General Joaquin Zenteno, a Bolivian officer who worked with Rodriguez on Che’s capture, was murdered on a Paris street.
Castro wants Felix Rodriguez's head and has sent hit-team after hit-team, after hit-team (including one lent to him by his late chum [[Yasser Arafat]]) to murder Felix and his family in Florida. In May 1975, General Joaquin Zenteno, a Bolivian officer who worked with Rodriguez on Che’s capture, was murdered on a Paris street.


"You're next," heard Felix Rodriguez when he picked up the phone a few days later. <em>Click.</em>
“You’re next,heard Felix Rodriguez when he picked up the phone a few days later. <em>Click.</em>


"When you get to Miami," Cuban political prisoner Roberto Martin-Perez heard from one of his jailers the day of his release in 1987, “tell your friend Felix Rodriguez his days are numbered. It’s one of Fidel's top priorities.”
"When you get to Miami," Cuban political prisoner Roberto Martin-Perez heard from one of his jailers the day of his release in 1987, “tell your friend Felix Rodriguez his days are numbered. It’s one of Fidel's top priorities.”


But Felix Rodriguez has foiled all of Castro’s murder plots against him, and until last year served as the proud president of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association.
But Felix Rodriguez has foiled all of Castro’s murder plots against him, and until last year served as the proud president of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association.<br />


"The facts and figures are irrefutable. No one will any longer be able to claim ignorance or uncertainty about the criminal nature of Communism," wrote the ''New York Times'' about The Black Book of Communism. This “irrefutable” study on Communism's crimes was edited by the head of France’s National Centre for Scientific Research, Stephane Courtois (not exactly an embittered dispossessed Cuban exile), and translated into English by Harvard University Press (not exactly a subsidiary of the John Birch Society).
"The facts and figures are irrefutable. No one will any longer be able to claim ignorance or uncertainty about the criminal nature of Communism," wrote the New York Times (no less!) about The Black Book of Communism. This “irrefutable” study on Communism’s crimes was edited by the head of France’s National Centre for Scientific Research, Stephane Courtois (not exactly an embittered dispossessed Cuban exile), and translated into English by Harvard University Press (not exactly a subsidiary of the John Birch Society).


This impeccably high-brow scholarly study found that Castro and Guevara’s firing squads murdered between 15 and 17 thousand Cubans, the equivalent, given the U.S. population, of almost one million executions.
This impeccably high-brow scholarly study found that Castro and Guevara’s firing squads murdered between 15 and 17 thousand Cubans, the equivalent, given the U.S. population, of almost one million executions.


But enough about Cubans. Let's come home for a second. Fortunately for Time magazine (headquartered in Manhattan) on Nov. 17, 1962  as the clock clicked down on a terror plot that would have possibly incinerated and entombed more people than [[Al-Qaeda]] [[September 11 attacks|attack&nbsp;on 9/11]], a man they vilify ([[J. Edgar Hoover]]) thwarted their “hero and icon” (Che Guevara). 
But enough about Cubans. Let's come home for a second. Fortunately for Time magazine (headquartered in Manhattan) on Nov. 17, 1962  as the clock clicked down on a terror plot that would have possibly incinerated and entombed more people than [[Al-Qaeda]] [[September 11 attacks|attack&nbsp;on 9/11]], a man they vilify ([[J. Edgar Hoover]]) thwarted their “hero and icon” (Che Guevara). 
[[File:CheExec19.jpg|thumb|Che Guevara's Corpse]]
 
Che Guevara headed Cuba's "Foreign Liberation Dept." at the time and his agents had targeted Macy's, Gimbel’s, Bloomingdales, and Manhattan’s Grand Central Station with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. The holocaust was set for detonation the following week, on the day after Thanksgiving. Macy’s serves 50,000 shoppers on that one day. More details here.
Che Guevara headed Cuba's "Foreign Liberation Dept." at the time and his agents had targeted Macy's, Gimbel’s, Bloomingdales, and Manhattan’s Grand Central Station with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. The holocaust was set for detonation the following week, on the day after Thanksgiving. Macy’s serves 50,000 shoppers on that one day. More details here.


Castro and Che planned their Manhattan holocaust just weeks after [[Nikita Khrushchev]] foiled their plans for an even bigger massacre during the Cuban Missile Crisis. "If the missiles had remained," Che Guevara confided to The London Daily Worker the following month, "we would have used them against the very heart of the U.S., including (Time magazine headquarters) New York City."
Castro and Che planned their Manhattan holocaust just weeks after Nikita Khrushchev foiled their plans for an even bigger massacre during the Cuban Missile Crisis. "If the missiles had remained," Che Guevara confided to The London Daily Worker the following month, "we would have used them against the very heart of the U.S., including (Time magazine headquarters) New York City."


Che Guevara's first decree when his “rebels” captured the town of Sancti Spiritus in central Cuba during the last days of the skirmishing against Batista's army outlawed alcohol, gambling and regulated relations between the sexes. Popular outcry and Fidel's sharp political sense made Ireland’s new hero grudgingly rescind his order.  
Che Guevara's first decree when his “rebels” captured the town of Sancti Spiritus in central Cuba during the last days of the skirmishing against Batista's army outlawed alcohol, gambling and regulated relations between the sexes. Popular outcry and Fidel's sharp political sense made Ireland’s new hero grudgingly rescind his order.  
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