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~ Ernesto Che Guevara
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Ernesto Che Guevara, az argentin származású forradalmár, miniszter, gerillavezér és író, Buenos Aires-ben szerzett orvosi diplomát, majd a kubai forradalom során jelentős szerepet játszott a szigetország felszabadításában és újjáépítésében. A kubai gazdaság talpraállításáért dolgozott, küzdött az oktatás és az egészségügy fejlesztéséért, az írástudatlanság és a faji előítéletek felszámolásáért. Saját példájával népszerűsítette az önkéntes munkát. Kongóban és Bolíviában is harcolt - harminckilenc éves volt, amikor az amerikai-bolíviai csapatok csapdába ejtették és kivégezték.
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Camilo Cienfuegos, Beloved Revolutionary Leader:
Camilo Cienfuegos (1932-1959) was a leading figure of the Cuban Revolution, along with Fidel Castro and Ché Guevara. He was one of a handful of survivors of the Granma landing in 1956 and soon distinguished himself as a leader. He defeated Batista forces at the Battle of Yaguajay in December of 1958. After the triumph of the Revolution in early 1959, Cienfuegos took on a position of authority in the army. He disappeared during a night-time flight in October, 1959 and is presumed to have died. He is considered one of the greatest heroes of the Revolution and every year, Cuba marks the anniversary of his death.
Camilo Cienfuegos: Early Years:
Young Camilo was artistically inclined: he even attended art school, but was forced to drop out when he could no longer afford it. He went to the United States for a time in the early 1950’s in search of work, but returned disillusioned. As a teenager, he became involved in protests of government policies, and as the situation in Cuba worsened, he became more and more involved in the struggle against president Fulgencio Batista. In 1955, he was shot in the leg by Batista soldiers. According to Cienfuegos, that was the moment in which he decided that he would strive to free Cuba from the Batista dictatorship.
Camilo Joins the Revolution:
Camilo went from Cuba to New York, and from there to Mexico, where he met up with Fidel Castro, who was putting together an expedition to head back to Cuba and start a revolution. Camilo eagerly joined up and was one of 82 rebels packed into the 12-passenger yacht Granma, which left Mexico on November 25, 1956, arriving in Cuba a week later. The army discovered the rebels and killed most of them but the survivors were able to hide and later regroup in the mountains.
Comandante Camilo:
As one of the survivors of the Granma group, Camilo had a certain prestige with Fidel Castro that the others who joined the revolution later did not. By the middle of 1957 he had been promoted to Comandante and had his own command. In 1958, the tide began to turn in favor of the rebels, and he was ordered to lead one of three columns to attack the city of Santa Clara: another was commanded by Ché Guevara. One squad was ambushed and wiped out, but Ché and Camilo converged on Santa Clara.
Camilo Cienfuegos and The Battle of Yaguajay:
Camilo’s force, which had been swelled by local farmers and peasants, reached the small army garrison at Yaguajay in December of 1958 and besieged it. There were about 250 soldiers inside, under the command of Cuban-Chinese captain Abon Ly. Camilo attacked the garrison but was repeatedly driven back. He even tried putting together a makeshift tank out of a tractor and some iron plates, but that didn’t work either. Eventually, the garrison ran out of food and ammunition and surrendered on December 30. The next day, the revolutionaries captured Santa Clara.
After the Revolution :
The loss of Santa Clara and other cities convinced Batista to flee the country, and the revolution was over. The handsome, affable Camilo was very popular, and upon the success of the revolution was probably the third most powerful man in Cuba, after Fidel and Raúl Castro. He was promoted to head of the Cuban armed forces in early 1959.
Arrest of Matos and Disappearance:
In October, 1959, Fidel began to suspect that Huber Matos, another one of the original revolutionaries, was plotting against him. He sent Camilo to arrest Matos, as the two were good friends. According to later interviews with Matos, Camilo was reluctant to carry out the arrest, but followed his orders and did so. Matos was sentenced and served twenty years in prison. On the night of October 28, Camilo flew back from Camaguey to Havana after completing the arrest. His plane disappeared and no trace of Camilo or the airplane was ever found. After a few frantic days of searching, the hunt was called off.
Doubts About Camilo’s Death and His Place in Cuba Today:
Camilo’s disappearance and presumed death have caused many to wonder if Fidel or Raúl Castro had him killed. There is some compelling evidence either way.
The case against: Camilo was very loyal to Fidel, even arresting his good friend Huber Matos when the evidence against him was weak. He had never given the Castro brothers any cause to doubt his loyalty or competence. He had risked his life many times for the Revolution. Ché Guevara, who was so close to Camilo that he named his son after him, denied that the Castro brothers had anything to do with Camilo’s death.
The case for: Camilo was the only Revolutionary figure whose popularity rivaled Fidel’s, and as such was one of a very few people who could go against him if he wished. Camilo’s dedication to communism was suspect: for him, the Revolution was about removing Batista. Also, he had recently been replaced as head of the army by Raúl Castro, a sign that perhaps they were going to move on him.
It will probably never be known for sure what happened to Camilo: if the Castro brothers ordered him killed, they’ll never admit it. Today, Camilo is considered one of the great heroes of the Revolution: he has his own monument at the site of the Yaguajay battlefield. Every year on October 28, Cuban schoolchildren throw flowers into the ocean for him.
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| 2014.04.23. 07:49, Aleida |
Know your enemy
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Nem fogok összefoglalót írni a mai frissítéshez - csak engedjétek meg, hogy kifejtsem a véleményemet és olvassátok el a cikkemet.
[Egyelőre csak angol nyelven olvasható, a magyar fordítás is elkészül ezen a héten.]
Amikor cikkeket és híreket keresek Che Guevara-ról, van egy név, amivel gyakran összefutok. Lehet, hogy néhányan közületek már találkoztak vele. Humberto Fontova.
Ő egy kubai-amerikai férfi, akinek a családja 1961-ben örökre elhagyta Kubát, amikor Fontova még gyerek volt. Azóta heves ellensége Che Guevara-nak, Fidel Castro-nak és a kubai forradalomnak.
Írt két könyvet - Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant (Fidel: Hollywood kedvenc diktátora) (2005) és Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him (Az igazi Che Guevara és azoknak a hasznos idiótáknak a bemutatása, akik bálványozzák őt) (2007) - amelyek elegendő hírnevet hoztak neki az USA-ban ahhoz, hogy népszerű szerző lehessen különböző internetes magazinoknál.
[Elolvasom a teljes cikket]
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I won't write a summary for today's update - just let me express my opinion and read my article.
Know your enemy
When I look for articles and news about Che Guevara, there is one name that I often bum into. Maybe some of you have met his name before. Humberto Fontova.
He is a Cuban-American man whose family left Cuba for good in 1961 when he was a child. Since then he has been an active enemy to Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution.
He has written two books - Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant (2005) and Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him (2007) - that have gained him enough fame in the USA that he became a popular author on different online magazines.
[Read the whole article]
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| 2014.04.22. 00:00, Aleida |
Letölthető beszédek | Downloadable speeches
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Értékes kincsre bukkantam nemrég: a Taringa.net feltöltött pdf formátumban néhány Che Guevara-beszédet és levelet, valamint a bolíviai naplóját és a Gerillaháború című könyvét spanyol nyelven - ezeket olvasgathatják vagy akár le is tölthetik az érdeklődők.
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I have found some amazing treasure recently: Taringa.net has uploaded some speeches and letters of Che Guevara, his Bolivian diary and his book Guerrilla Warfare in pdf format in Spanish - these can be read and downloaded free by those interested.
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| 2014.04.21. 14:20, Aleida |
CIA man recounts Che Guevara's death
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As on Che Guevara Siempre I like to read about and listen to both sides and do my own research by using sources from everywhere I could, I would like to share this article with you.
Though it was published many years ago (8 October 2007), it can be interesting for some of you.
Hero. Rebel. Revolutionary. These are words one often hears in association with Ernesto Che Guevara. 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. 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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Ernesto Che Guevara, the Argentine-born revolutionary, minister, guerrilla leader and writer, received his medical degree in Buenos Aires, then played an essential part in the Cuban Revolution in liberating and rebuilding the country. He did his best to set up the Cuban economy, fought for the improvement of the education and the health system, the elimination of illiteracy and racial prejudice. He promoted voluntary work by his own example. He fought in the Congo and in Bolivia - he was thirty-nine years old, when he was trapped and executed by the joint American-Bolivian forces.
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