Alberto Korda/Che Guevara

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digitalintrigue said:
If it's uncool to have college football teams called the Indians, and if it's uncool to fly the Confederate flag, and if it's uncool to display the Nazi Swastika, and if one can't have cartoons of Muhammed without resulting in riots and murder, it should logically follow that it's uncool to wear Che gear...one would think anyway.
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No, it does not logically follow. By the same logic, it's uncool to wear anything made in China. And you know Nixon went there...
 
speaking of T - shirts, do I win a "Che " T- shirts for getting the correct answers?
no?
not even a Beauty Light O Matic camera?

a trip to Bolivia maybe? :)
 
Gabriel M.A. said:
Not far from my neighbourhood I've seen cars with Nixon/Agnew '72 bumper stickers
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A few years ago, I visited a friend's workplace (her father's business), and there was a Nixon/Lodge '60 window decal on the door of of a long unused office.

Alas, her faather lost the business before I could get her to remove the window to save it. The building was soon after demolished.
 
This is my favourite use of the famous Che image :D

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"One of the most famous faces of communism is getting a makeover this week, with a new poster designed to teach students the whole story about Cuban revolutionary icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

"The Victims of Che Guevera" poster, produced by the Young America's Foundation, centers on a collage that uses tiny photos of those killed by Cuba's communist regime to compose the face of the Marxist guerrilla, who has become a popular T-shirt icon."

"Che is one of the heroes that the left idolizes," said Patrick X. Coyle, vice president of YAF. "But a lot of kids don't know anything about him. We thought this would be a great way to highlight his atrocities."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071105/CULTURE/111050092/1015
 
See the difference between Che and say, any American president since WWII is that Che was at least involved in attempting the greater good for the greater number of people, whatever you may think of the outcomes. American political leaders have been involved in primarily protecting and expanding American business interests. Yes, Che killed people, but he was never as good at it as people like Kissenger and the like. Furthermore, I would argue that the opression of opposition views within Cuba is directly related to the external pressures levied on Cuba by the American government.

That said, this topic started off as a discussion about an iconic image. The image itself is devoid of any politics save those we atribute to it.
 
Actually "Der Spiegel" featured a background story.
The fact that many members of the Bolivian army personnel who dealt with him are either dead or severely wounded (spending their days in wheelchairs) has led to the rumor that there is a "Curse of Che".
The guy who killed him was a beneficiary of some kind of medical exchange programme and got free eye surgery by Cuban doctors and even wrote a thank you letter to Castro.

Well making an icon out of a person is rather difficult as you will always find something. OK equalling Che to Hitler is a bit hard. As a conservative journalist in my country once wrote:"There's the one major difference between a communist and a Nazi: A communist at least started with the idea that all people are equal (concerning race) whereas for a Nazi there were always inferior races"
If they had put him on trial I think there would be no T-shirts. I also think that the second photo also helped buildinhg up his image as a martyr.
 
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I don't know, if the Americans had tried to murder my PM more than once, and invaded, I might be a little paranoid. Don't get me wrong, the oppression in Cuba is wrong, and unjustifiable, but I don't know what the US is doing to help. On a positive note, their healthcare is amazing.
 
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