Miami/There are countless current topics. The Russian imperialist war against Ukraine, as well as Iran and China, serious risks to our way of life, all issues of global relevance. However, as a history buff, this week I turn to a character forgotten even by his own managers, a common and miserable individual who was forged as a legend by the international left with the consent and participation of countless useful fools who echoed a very efficiently promoted fable.
The Cuban revolution, specifically its central architect, Fidel Castro, was a notable manager of myths. First, he invented for himself a non-existent epic and decorum; Later, with his evil creativity, he created a heroic story of kindness to two of his fundamental instruments, Camilo Cienfuegos and Ernesto Che Guevara. Of course, both were already dead, they were no match for the Antillean Crono, always ready to eat hitmen who could pose a threat.
Cienfuegos was always presented as a nice, good-natured individual, one of those guys capable of forgiving everything, although, we must add, he never denounced the crimes he witnessed or those he executed.
However, Guevara was the master creation of leftist propaganda, personifying, among other supposed virtues, extreme justice, which motivated, in 1961, the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and his partner Simone de Beauvoir to ask him to witness an execution, without questioning why the victim would be executed.
The manipulators of his image were extremely skillful, since they turned a guerrilla who had failed in all his tasks into a hero.
Fantasies about Guevara were numerous. The manipulators of his image were extremely skillful, since they turned a guerrilla who had failed in all his tasks into a hero. They managed to make him adored by his potential victims despite his homophobia. In short, he was the epitome of revolutionary virtues, the best reference for the occupational haters, of the envious and resentful, because at the end of the day they do not work, they do not create, but rather they plunder and destroy.
There was no Ernesto Che Guevara romantic, but a brutal serial killer, capable of committing murders like that of Captain José de Jesús Castaño Quevedo, head of the Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities (BRAC) in Cuba, whom he killed with rifle butts; ideal to say at the United Nations in December 1964: “We shot and we will continue to shoot”, and unsurpassed for his criminal record to write to Fidel Castro in April 1967: “Hate as a factor of struggle; intransigent hatred of the enemy, which drives beyond the natural limitations of the human being and turns it into an effective, violent, selective and cold killing machine.”
The sadly known Che He took satisfaction in representing the most painful extremes. On one occasion he asked the Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser if the revolution had caused many exiles in his country, Nasser’s response being negative, to which Guevara argued that the depth of a true revolution is measured precisely by the number of individuals who felt forced to go into exile.
Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara was a creation of the enemies of freedom and human dignity, a falsehood of Fidel Castro and his allies
This subject was a staunch supporter of war conflicts. He proposed bringing war to every corner and wrote about the need for conflagrations like Vietnam, expressing on more than one occasion: “The peaceful path is eliminated and violence is inevitable. To achieve socialist regimes, rivers of blood will have to flow and the route of liberation must be continued, even if it is at the cost of millions of atomic victims.”
It is true that he became a global icon of youth rebellion and social justice, but behind that romantic image there is a great distance from his historical performance documented by several historians and supported by testimonies. The real Guevara, the serial killer, the man who wrote to his first wife, Hilda Gadea, “here in the Sierra Maestra thirsty for blood,” cannot be forgotten, because he is probably the only guarantee so that such nefarious personalities do not appropriate the times.
Ernest Che Guevara was a creation of the enemies of freedom and human dignity, a falsehood of Fidel Castro and his allies, which, because it was forged in lies, has been fading, although, paradoxically, they will always be remembered by their enemies.
We have the duty not to forget, only in this way could we prevent new destructive chimeras from arising like the ones we are still suffering from.
