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By CARLOS VALDEZ, Associated Press WriterWed Jun 14, 10:24 PM ET

President Evo Morales celebrated the birthday of Che Guevara Wednesday, the first time a top Bolivian leader has paid

tribute to the revolutionary who was executed in the Andean nation four decades ago.

Surrounded by Cuban and Venezuelan officials, Morales observed the 78th anniversary of Guevara's birth, using the

occasion to praise his close allies President Fidel Castro of Cuba and President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

Guevara, an Argentine, launched an armed revolt in 1966 to bring communism to Bolivia after helping lead the 1959 Cuban

Revolution that ousted dictator Fulgencio Batista and thrust Castro into power.

He waged a guerrilla insurgency for 13 months in Bolivia but was captured and executed by the Bolivian army at age 39.

Morales flew in a helicopter loaned by Venezuela to the small town of La Higuera — the site of Guevara's execution — 480

miles southeast of La Paz.

Local children and nearby residents blew out a birthday cake with 78 candles representing how old Guevara would be if

were alive.

He said in a speech that a decade ago he had a dream that there would be other Cubas in Latin America.

"I wasn't wrong," he said. "Now we do have another commander, colleague Chavez." He also praised Castro's Cuba, and he

said both leader have shown they unafraid of "the empire," a reference to the United States.

Since taking office in January, Morales has forged close alliances with Cuba and Venezuela, which have flooded Bolivia —

South America's poorest country — with aid.

Morales thanked Venezuela and Cuba for their aid and said he would make Castro a cake for his next birthday made of coca

— the leaf from which cocaine is derived.

The coca leaf has traditional and legal uses in Bolivia although the U.S. has long backed its eradication.
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CIA man recounts Che Guevara's death
Message Lun 8 Oct - 12:22 par mihou
CIA man recounts Che Guevara's death
By Will Grant
BBC News, Miami

Hero. Rebel. Revolutionary. These are words one often hears in association with Ernesto Che Guevara.

Felix Rodriguez poses with Che shortly before Che was killed
Felix Rodriguez
But they are not words you will often hear in Miami where many people see Che Guevara as a brutal guerrilla who brought Cuba nothing but misery with his communist ideals.

One of those anti-Che voices in Miami belongs to Felix Rodriguez, a Cuban-born former CIA agent who was part of the mission of CIA operatives and Bolivian army forces that captured and killed Che Guevara in October 1967.

Forty years on, how does he feel about the role he played in ending the life of one of the most iconic Latin American leaders of the 20th Century?

I visited the ex-CIA man at his Miami home. He was wearing a shirt emblazoned with the logo of the 2506 Association of the Veterans of the Bay of Pigs, another of his earlier military incursions against the Cuban government.

Pride

Mr Rodriguez was present at some of the most notorious events of US anti-communist involvement in Latin America during the Cold War, including training the Nicaraguan Contras and advising the Argentine military government during the 1980s.

It is a history of which Mr Rodriguez is fiercely proud.

His air-conditioned den is full of framed photographs and memorabilia of his CIA past: Felix Rodriguez and George Bush Senior talking in the White House, a CIA medal for exceptional service, a blood-soaked North Vietnamese flag.

But it was his short time in Bolivia with Che Guevara that interested me. Sitting by his pool, Felix Rodriguez showed me his Che scrapbook.

Inside were the yellowing and fragile pages of his log-book from October 1967: the expenses of every day meticulously recorded, each one within the $14 daily allowance from the CIA; a page from Che's code book, supposedly designed by the Chinese government, with a fresh code for each different message.

Reader L A Heath sent this image of a Che poster in Havana
There were also more macabre items: photographs of the dead Che, laid out on a table for the world's press to see; the tobacco from Che's final pipe; a photo of Che's severed hands, which were cut from his body and put in formaldehyde to preserve his fingerprints, in case Fidel Castro tried to claim that the corpse was not Che's.

And the most important item: a photograph of a captured, injured and bedraggled Che Guevara, standing next to the soldiers who had caught him and the 27-year-old Felix Rodriguez, who had interrogated him.

Wasn't that humiliating for Che?

"No, I don't think so. Actually, I think he felt when the picture was taken that his life was going to be spared. I think he felt that he wasn't going to be shot," Mr Rodriguez said.

Death warrant

According to Mr Rodriguez's version of events, the atmosphere was so friendly that Che willingly agreed to the photograph and even laughed when Rodriguez said: "Watch the birdie, Comandante".

An hour or so after the photo was taken, Che was killed.

Felix Rodriguez received the order from the Bolivian military high command. There was a simple code: 500 meant Che Guevara, 600 dead, 700 alive.

500 - 600 was the command.

Mr Rodriguez wanted confirmation on the crackly radio line. It was repeated: 500 - 600.

Mr Rodriguez broke the news to Che that there was to be no trial.

"Che turned white... before saying: 'It's better this way, I should have died in combat.'"

Man v legend

Mr Rodriguez ordered the soldier who pulled the trigger to aim carefully, to remain consistent with the Bolivian government's story that Che had been killed in action during a clash with the Bolivian army.

But wasn't Che entitled to a fair trial rather than such an ignominious death in La Higuera?

"I could have tried to falsify the command to the troops, and got Che to Panama as the US government said they had wanted," said Mr Rodriguez.

But he said it was a decision by the Bolivian presidency, and he had to let history run its course.

By killing Che Guevara the man, didn't Mr Rodriguez think he had simply helped create something much more powerful - Che Guevara the legend?

"That was done by the Cuban government... Most people don't know the real Che Guevara - the Che Guevara who wrote that he was thirsty for blood, the Che who assassinated thousands of people without any regard for any real legal process."

After Che was killed, there was some argument over who should have his pipe. The iconic pipe belonging to the most famous guerrilla in the world. What young soldier there on that day wouldn't want it?

Felix Rodriguez says it was in his possession but, after being asked several times, he gave it to the soldier who had shot Che so that he would "remember his deed".

So did Mr Rodriguez have any regrets about what happened in 1967, I asked him.

Yes, he smiled. "I would have kept that pipe."

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Published: 2007/10/08 09:14:03 GMT

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Latin America's new look at Che
Message Mar 9 Oct - 12:30 par mihou
Latin America's new look at Che
By Daniel Schweimler
BBC News, Vallegrande, Bolivia

We can only speculate, but Ernesto Che Guevara probably would not have approved of the way his image is being commercialised.

In the town of Vallegrande, near to where he was killed in 1967, his face stares out from T-shirts and flags. There are also Che mugs and key-rings.

But he probably would approve, and be somewhat surprised, that the ideas he fought for and message he was trying to bring to the people of Latin America are alive and thriving.

Forty years after he was captured and executed by CIA-backed Bolivian soldiers in the village of La Higuera, thousands of people gathered in nearby Vallegrande to mark Che Guevara's death and celebrate his life.

There were art exhibitions and musicians in the small town plaza, and discussions between writers and intellectuals.

The highlight came when the Bolivian President, Evo Morales, flew in by helicopter to address the crowd.

He called Che an inspiration and said US troops should never again be allowed to operate on Latin American soil.

All so different to 40 years ago, when Che's body was displayed in the laundry room of the Vallegrande hospital to prove to the world that both the man and his ideas were dead.

One of those involved in his capture was former Bolivian army officer Gary Prado.

"It has become a fable, a business, an invention of things that takes all seriousness out of the story. It's a show, that's all," he said.

"There's a small political group who use El Che, and that is the group that survives from Che and recycles the story every year but he has no more effect than that. No more effect."

Injustices

But that is not the sentiment circulating around Vallegrande.

A former Cuban rebel fighter known as Urbano knew Guevara well, fighting with him in both Cuba and Bolivia. He was in Vallegrande for the anniversary.

He taught me to think - he taught me the most beautiful thing which is to be human
Urbano
Former Cuban rebel fighter

"I'm talking about a Che Guevara who was like a father to me," he said.

"He taught me, he educated me. He taught me to think. He taught me the most beautiful thing which is to be human."

The Ecuadorean writer, Maria del Carmen Garces, has written several books about Che and his legacy.

She was also in Vallegrande, where she said that Che appears to fulfil a political need in Latin America.

The injustices and poverty he fought to overcome persist, she said.

Local mistrust

After his success in fighting alongside Fidel Castro in the Cuban revolution, Che went to Africa.

He admitted that his attempts to foment revolution in the Democratic Republic of Congo were a disaster.

At first sight, the rugged mountain terrain, deep gorges and impenetrable vegetation around Vallegrande look something like the Sierra Maestra mountains in eastern Cuba, where the revolution there was born.

But Bolivia is not Cuba and the peasant farmers were mistrustful of the man from Argentina.

After several months in the inhospitable countryside, Guevara and his men were tired and hungry and did not have the support of the local community they were seeking.

He was captured, tired, hungry and bedraggled.

Tourist trail

But it is difficult to find anyone in Vallegrande today who admits to being against him.

One local resident, Herman Lasio Lino, saw the hundreds of Bolivian troops moving into the town in the weeks before the rebels were captured and went to see Che's body the day it was placed in the hospital.

"It was still warm," he said. "Che had been executed only hours before. But we thought he'd been captured alive."

"When the helicopter landed, we thought we'd see Che get out, but there was a bulk wrapped in a yellow cloth tied to the helicopter."

Tourists today can walk the route that Che took and be filmed in the laundry room where his body lay.

Some in Latin America see Che as a failed revolutionary, while others say he was a misguided killer.

But there is no doubt that he is more popular now throughout the region than he was when he was killed 40 years ago.

And gatherings in Vallegrande are only likely to develop and spread his influence still further.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/7034953.stm

Published: 2007/10/09 08:35:50 GMT

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CHE GUEVARA
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mihou
Quarante ans après sa mort, le légendaire guérillero argentin
Ernesto Che Guevara, dont la photo au béret frappé d'une étoile est
connue dans le monde entier, fait toujours parler de lui.
Les plus importantes cérémonies pour honorer sa mémoire ont eu lieu
à Cuba. Les festivités se sont déroulées à la place de la Révolution de
Santa Clara, à l'est de La Havane, une ville qu'il avait conquise en
1958 lors d'une bataille décisive contre la dictature de Fulgencio
Batista. Il avait ainsi ouvert les portes de La Havane à Fidel Castro
et ses troupes révolutionnaires qui y pénétrèrent triomphalement en
janvier 1959.
Un discours du Lider Maximo, toujours en convalescence, a été lu par
son frère et président par intérim Raul Castro. Fidel Castro a salué
« la grandeur du combat quotidien » du Che et a dit « incliner [son]
front, avec respect et gratitude devant le combattant exceptionnel
[...]. »


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Photo: AP Photo/Javier Galeano

Raul Castro salue Aleida Guevara, la fille du Che



Raul Castro a également salué la veuve du Che, Aleida March, âgée aujourd'hui de 71 ans, ainsi que leurs quatre enfants.
Fait marquant de ces cérémonies: la diffusion du message
radiophonique du 3 octobre 1965 et dans lequel Castro avait dévoilé aux
Cubains la lettre qu'il a reçue de Che Guevara. Ce dernier l'informait
de son renoncement à la citoyenneté cubaine, octroyée en 1959, et de sa
décision de quitter l'île communiste pour porter ailleurs le combat
insurrectionnel, en Afrique notamment.
Les restes du « guérillero héroïque », qui étaient enterrés en
Bolivie, ont été transférés en 1997 à Santa Clara où une immense statue
de bronze est érigée à sa mémoire.
Le quarantième anniversaire de la mort du révolutionnaire a été
également célébré en Bolivie où a été capturé et exécuté le Che, le 9
octobre 1967. Le président Evo Morales a rendu hommage à Che Guevara,
tout en pourfendant le « capitalisme sauvage et inhumain ».
« Le Che continue de vivre pour toujours. La lutte héroïque du Che
[...] continuera jusqu'au changement des modèles économiques, je veux
parler du capitalisme sauvage et inhumain », a déclaré M. Morales à
Vallegrande, où les restes du Che ont été retrouvés en 1997.
L'Argentine natale prépare pour sa part une nouvelle statue de son
héros, tandis que le Venezuela a organisé un festival d'art et de
musique en son honneur. À Mexico, des étudiants ont peint de
gigantesques portraits du Che dans le métro.
Un mythe est toujours vivant


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Photo: AFP/Keystone Archives/DSK



Tout le monde connaît la célèbre posture du Che, le regard perçant,
cheveux au vent et coiffé d'un béret décoré d'une étoile, immortalisé
par Alberto Korda en 1960. La célèbre photo du révolutionnaire est
devenue aussi un fonds de commerce. Chandails et autres objets à
l'effigie du Che sont vendus partout dans le monde.
Signe que l'image du Che rapporte toujours, Gustavo Villoldo, un
exilé cubain et ancien agent de la CIA établi en Floride, mettra
bientôt en vente, aux enchères, une mèche de cheveux qu'il affirme
avoir prélevée sur la tête du rebelle mort en Bolivie.
Che Guevara continue aussi d'inspirer ferveur et polémique. Outre
Fidel Castro qui lui voue une infinie admiration, le président
vénézuélien Hugo Chavez estime que le Che reste « un exemple » pour les
jeunes gens d'Amérique latine qui se battent pour un « meilleur
avenir ».
Après son départ de Cuba, le légendaire homme s'est rendu en
Afrique, notamment au Congo, pour y mener la révolution, avant de
s'installer en Bolivie où il a été tué par des soldats boliviens à
l'instigation de la CIA.
Quarante ans plus tard, la polémique sur son exécution refait
surface. Le général bolivien à la retraite qui a capturé Che Guevara,
Gary Prado, soutient que l'ordre de le tuer n'est pas venu des agents
de la CIA participant à l'opération, mais du président bolivien, qui
voulait ainsi éviter la publicité d'un procès.
Le Che n'a pas que des admirateurs. Il compte aussi des ennemis
cubains vivant surtout en exil et qui soutiennent qu'une fois au
pouvoir, l'homme aujourd'hui idolâtré a supervisé les tribunaux
militaires et les exécutions de centaines de personnes liées à la
dictature renversée de Fulgencio Batista.

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mihou
FOTOS DEL CHE
Message Mar 9 Oct - 23:54 par mihou
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mihou
Why the Che myth is bad for the left
Message Sam 13 Oct - 14:00 par mihou
Che Guevara
A modern saint and sinner



Oct 13th 2007
From The Economist print editionWhy the Che myth is bad for the left




AFPBolivian president pays tribute to Guevara CheSat

THE bearded face—eyes staring defiantly to infinity, the long wavy
hair beneath the beret stirred by the Caribbean breeze—has become one
of the world's most familiar images. Alberto Korda's photograph of
Ernesto “Che” Guevara may be waved aloft by anti-globalisation
protesters but it has spawned a global brand. It has adorned
cigarettes, ice cream and a bikini, and is tattooed on the bodies of
footballers.

What explains the extraordinary appeal of Guevara, an Argentine who
40 years ago this week was captured and shot in Bolivia (see article)?
Partly the consistency with which he followed his own injunction that
“the duty of the revolutionary is to make the revolution”. A frail
asthmatic, he took up arms with Fidel Castro's guerrillas in Cuba's
Sierra Maestra. After their victory, Guevara would fight again in the
Congo as well as Bolivia. He fought dictators who were backed by the
United States in the name of anti-communism when the cold war was at
its hottest, and when Guevara's cry to create “two, three...many
Vietnams” resonated on university campuses across the world. His
renewed popularity in recent years owes much to a revival of
anti-Americanism.




























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But it is semiotics, more than politics, that leads teenagers
ignorant of the Sierra Maestra to sport Che T-shirts. Korda's
photograph established Guevara as a universal symbol of romantic
rebellion. It helps, too, that he died young, at 39: as a member of the
Cuban gerontocracy he would hardly have become the James Dean of world
politics. A second picture, that of the bedraggled guerrilla's corpse,
staring wide-eyed at the camera, provides another clue. It resembles
Andrea Mantegna's portrait of the dead Christ. It fixes Guevara as a
modern saint, the man who risked his life twice in countries that were
not his own before giving it in a third, and whose invocation of the
“new man”, driven by moral rather than material incentives, smacked of
St Ignatius Loyola more than Marx.

In Cuba, he is the patron saint: at school, every child must repeat
each morning, “We will be like Che.” His supposed relics are the object
of official veneration. In 1997, when Cuba was reeling from the
collapse of its Soviet ally, Mr Castro organised the excavation of
Guevara's skeleton in Bolivia and its reburial in a mausoleum in Cuba.
Except that in the tradition of medieval saints, it probably isn't his
body at all, according to research by Bertrand de la Grange, a French
journalist.

The wider the cult spreads, the further it strays from the man.
Rather than a Christian romantic, Guevara was a ruthless and dogmatic
Marxist, who stood not for liberation but for a new tyranny. In the
Sierra Maestra, he shot those suspected of treachery; in victory, Mr
Castro placed him in charge of the firing squads that executed
“counter-revolutionaries”; as minister of industries, Guevara advocated
expropriation down to the last farm and shop. His exhortation to
guerrilla warfare, irrespective of political circumstance, lured
thousands of idealistic Latin Americans to their deaths, helped to
create brutal dictatorships and delayed the achievement of democracy.

Sadly, Guevara's example is invoked not just by teenagers but by
some Latin American governments. In Venezuela, Hugo Chávez wants to
create the guevarista “new man” (see article),
just when Cuba is having second thoughts. As Jorge Castañeda, one of
Guevara's biographers, notes, Che's lingering influence has retarded
the emergence of a modern, democratic left in parts of Latin America.
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