Who is this Che Guevara that many hispanics hold as a hero. The truth be known he was far from any hero is the sense of protecting the oppressed and righting any wrongs.

Che presided over the Cuban Revolution's first firing squads. He founded Cuba's "labor camp" system—the system that was eventually employed to incarcerate gays, dissidents, and AIDS victims.

This thug was one of the leaders in the Cuban revelution that brought Fidel Castro to power. Che was a totalitarian. He achieved nothing but disaster. Many of the early leaders of the Cuban Revolution favored a democratic or democratic-socialist direction for the new Cuba. But Che was a mainstay of the hardline pro-Soviet faction, and his faction won.

What disaster are you saying. I am saying Cuba is a disaster and a very oppresive state. Anyone whith half a mind can see the oppresive regime that Che helpped bring to power and has lasterd for 60 plus years now under the totalitarian views of Che and Fidel.

In the famous essay in which he issued his ringing call for "two, three, many Vietnams," he also spoke about martyrdom and managed to compose a number of chilling phrases: "Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine. This is what our soldiers must become …"— and so on. He was killed in Bolivia in 1967, leading a guerrilla movement that had failed to enlist a single Bolivian peasant. And yet he succeeded in inspiring tens of thousands of middle class Latin-Americans to exit the universities and organize guerrilla insurgencies of their own. And these insurgencies likewise accomplished nothing, except to bring about the death of hundreds of thousands, and to set back the cause of Latin-American democracy—a tragedy on the hugest scale.

Today with the socialist movement that is sweeping Central and Southern America I am sure that Che would be proud to see the ties that are being bound to communist China and the Middle east. With the elimination of those who want a free and democratic government being murdered or disposed of in jail be the likes of Hugo Chavez (Venzuala) and the new upstart Bolivian President Evo Morales. Che's dreams of communism and oppresion live on.

The modern-day cult of Che blinds us not just to the past but also to the present. Right now a tremendous social struggle is taking place in Cuba. Dissident liberals have demanded fundamental human rights, and the dictatorship has rounded up all but one or two of the dissident leaders and sentenced them to many years in prison. Among those imprisoned leaders is an important Cuban poet and journalist, Raúl Rivero, who is serving a 20-year sentence. In the last couple of years the dissident movement has sprung up in yet another form in Cuba, as a campaign to establish independent libraries, free of state control; and state repression has fallen on this campaign, too.

Che is nothing more then a propped up murderous thug who the extremists stirring the pot of anarchy are drawing upon to brainwash the younger generations in false historical facts. A self serving pretense to achive a goal of stealing land, property and monies from America because they know if they try to address and change the problems in their own countries it would not be tolerated and they more then likely would end up as Che saw fit to do to those who opposed him ... MURDERED.