Young people and working people today who understand that a better world-a socialist world-is possible, and who are ready to fight for it. Che’s revolutionary legacy, his ideas and example, continue to inspire new generations of youth and working people, particularly throughout the Americas, but in truth across the entire globe. How different reality turned out!ĥ0 years later it is quite clear that–beyond the image–the life and example of Ernesto Che Guevara continues to resonate strongly in world politics. As they clinked champagne glasses-and this is literally true-in the offices of the National Security Agency of the Lyndon Johnson White House upon receiving confirmation of Che’s death, Washington’s central political officers truly thought that Che would be quickly forgotten or at most faintly remembered as a minor historical footnote.
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They assert that Che’s trial would have been quite an earth shaker, that it would have been impossible to place this revolutionary in the dock.”īy murdering Che in cold blood and then clandestinely dumping his body, the hope and expectation was that Che’s physical extermination and hidden bones would be “the end of the story,” that is, the end of Che’s historic political impact and significance. As Fidel Castro stated in his extraordinarily powerful and moving tribute to Che given before one million Cubans on October 18, 1967, the imperialist “thugs, oligarchs, and mercenaries” shamelessly conceded why they murdered the wounded and disarmed Che.
They proceeded to display Che’s mutilated corpse to gawking journalists and selected spectator-voyeurs before burying his remains in what they planned on forever being a secret, unmarked grave.Ībove all, the Washington decision-makers understood there could be no trial, even a phony formality in their own rigged courts, for Ernesto Che Guevara. The orders were to murder Ernesto Che Guevara-a wounded combatant captured in battle. On October 9, 1967, the highest levels of the United States government transmitted orders to CIA-operative Felix Rodriguez who passed them on to Washington’s flunkies in the Bolivian military regime. Che died defending no other cause than the cause of the poor and the humble of this earth. Ike Nahem Che Lives!Ĭhe died defending no other interest, no other cause than the cause of the exploited and the oppressed of this continent. This is an updated, re-edited version of my 2007 essay written for a Celebration of Ernesto Che Guevara’s life held in New York City in commemoration of the 40 th anniversary of his execution, attended by 300 people.
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