"There are many forms of oppression, some more subtle than others, sometimes embellished by the call to social justice, sometimes masked by the pretext of security. To recognize and denounce the subtle psychological mechanism by which the enemies of freedom try to induce us to accept a voluntary servitude is one of the most urgent tasks of our time. " So Alvaro Vargas Llosa writes in the introduction of "The Che Guevara Myth and the future of freedom. "In the rest of the book, the author devotes to this task demolishing Ernesto Che Guevara, the icon to which you refer, more or less revolutionary movements and, at least in Latin America, leading politicians such as Venezuela's Hugo Chávez. In addition, of course, Fidel Castro.
Che has become a symbol of freedom, equality, rebellion against despotism. Even pacifism. Vargas Llosa points out the first paradox. The icons are selling well, "Guevara that much (or little?) Made to overthrow capitalism, is now reduced to the classic capitalist brand." In fact, his face adorns' mugs, hoodies, lighters, key rings, hats, scarves, bandanas, shirts, bags, jeans, clothing of the herb. " PSpersonale : This theory is not valid, why is not the fault of Ernesto Guevara also well if it has become a myth. Maybe trade qst born around its image is a paradox, but it is a theory that holds nn and has not ulla to do with what Che Guevara did.
Minister of Industry is the same incompetent
Guevara to summarize its bloody ideal of justice in his "Message to the Tricontinental" (1967): "Hatred as a factor in the fight - the uncompromising hatred against the enemy - that goes beyond the natural limits of being human and turns it into a real, violent, selective and cold killing machine. " 'Selective' to a certain point. In the first half of 1959, a revolution now over, Guevara directs the prison of La Cabaña, also known as the Galerie de la muerte ". The political enemies are subjected to summary trials. What gives the specific provisions to members of the court: the defendants are all murderers and must end on the wall. Reliable estimates speak of 400 executions in less than six months. Strengthened by this experience, which creates, along with Fidel, the police apparatus that will reduce to slavery and a half of six million Cubans. In 1961, after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, the new police state gets underway. According to What is your chance to make the counter-revolutionaries "do not ever rise again over your head." The category of "counter-revolutionary" is understood in the most extensive possible. The gates of the concentration camps to gradually open up "dissidents, homosexuals, AIDS victims, Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Afro-Cuban priests, and other undesirables." There is a little-known aspect that deserves to be described: the morality of Che. "In 1958 - writes Vargas Llosa - having taken the city of Sancti Spiritus, Guevara tried (unsuccessfully) to impose a kind of Sharia regulating the relations between the sexes, the use informal alcohol and gambling. " All under the banner of Puritanism that the master does not even dreamed of applying in his personal life.
also based on the collectivist ideal levels not exactly democratic, such as: "The struggling masses agree on the robbery of banks, because they are not deposited any of their money." The yardstick of the quality of economic reforms is the number of people "who understand that in the new company there is no place for them." Between 1959 and 1961, Guevara is holding the levers of the Cuban economy, first as director of the National Bank, then as Minister of Industry. The results are disastrous. At that time, Vargas Llosa writes, "there was the almost complete collapse of sugar production, industrialization failed completely and had to resort to rationing." Land reform was a matter for bureaucrats: land stolen from the rich did not end to the peasants but to men of the unit. Between 1961 and 1963 the harvest was reduced by half.
Shipments in the Congo and Bolivia
Even the image of the guerrilla genius show some cracks. The most successful Guevara against Batista, the conquest of the city of Santa Clara, has been questioned recently. It appears that the surrender was agreed in exchange for a large sum of money. I organized guerrilla groups in Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Panama and Haiti ended early and badly. Disastrous expedition to the Congo. Guevara sided with two Congolese rebels against the US-backed regime. The first was called Mulele. After taking the town of Stanleyville had to see what stuff was done: he was murdered anyone who could read and wore a tie. The second was Laurent Kabila, another murderess licensed, as will become apparent in the nineties. In 1965 Guevara understood that the game was lost and changed the air. Mobutu came to power who established a tyranny that lasts decades. The mission to Bolivia was rather amateurish. Che did not noticed that it had the support neither farmers nor the Communist Party of Bolivia. Yuro was caught in the throat immediately after meeting the French intellectual Régis Debray. The next day, October 9, 1967 is killed.
Summing up, Vargas Llosa argues that after Che Guevara was very similar to the dictator Batista, for which, however, was the most ruthless and efficient. Guevara re-emerge in the constants of power in Latin America: the Caudillo, that is the dominant influence of an authority figure in the government system, and collectivism, that is, the contempt for the individual, private property, capitalism. Obvious features in the current regimes of Venezuela and Bolivia.
Impressions Personal
So, our beloved Che Guevara is not a hero? It is the myth that many young people are based? I do not know what to think, should be the facts to speak, but if these can be interpreted in many ways and can have hidden sides, what to do? long been considered a legend Che Guevara, but it is not communist, and now this document, but that is based on reliable sources, I, say, "upsets". guerillero Che Guevara is the Heroic, the revolutionary Utopia and now ....
should reflect a bit 'up, indeed it is not all that glitters is gold, but I dispiace.Un bit' like when my professor of Italian "discovered" (nn was found) that our Ignazio Silone, who wrote beautiful books on freedom and the horrors of fascism, was himself a fascist spy.
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