Che was a hero, but was also a butcher...
I suppose power is an intoxicating feeling.. one that you would not like to let go at any cost..including sacrificing your own morals and beliefs...or, adjusting your morals to fit your standards.
Anyhow, there is a film being made about Che, and it portrays him as a hero..as many people look at him..but just remember, you can't always believe what you read..or watch... or hear....
THE BLOODY TRUTH ABOUT CHE
March 19, 2007 — SOME historians are already concerned about "Che," the movie Steven Soderbergh is directing with Benicio Del Toro starring as the Communist revolutionary. Soderbergh seems intent on portraying Ernesto "Che" Guevara as a hero, who battled alongside Fidel Castro to free Cuba from a corrupt imperialist government, and then was martyred by the CIA. Soderbergh will no doubt gloss over the six months after Castro seized power in 1959, when Che was in charge of La Cabana fortress, overseeing the trial and execution of 600 political prisoners. "To witness such butchery is a trauma that will accompany me to my grave," recalled José Vilasuso, a lawyer who worked under Che. "The walls of that medieval castle received the echoes of the rhythmic footstep of the squad, the clicking of the rifles . . . the sorry howling of the dying . . . the macabre silence . . . " Soderbergh had no comment.
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