After a long hiatus, Uncommon Sense brings back the Cuba Idiot Watch, to highlight the mushy-brained politicians, starstruck celebrities and other idiots who, by choice or just by their own stupidity, don't get what Cuba and Castroism are all about.
What better way to kick off the revival than with Benicio del Toro, star of the upcoming Ché Guevara film orgy.
In an interview Saturday with an Argentine newspaper, del Toro offers several bits of idiocy about the Cuban revolution's chief executioner:
- "I believe that anyone who wears a Ché T-shirt, understands his message. If I see someone wearing a Ché T-shirt, I think, 'He has good taste.'"
- "I think (Guevara) genuinely believed and hoped that people could change the course of history. ... I think he was persistent and had a morality. He stood with the oppressed, fighting injustice and defending the forgotten. Guevara was like Jesus, in a sense, but without turning the other cheek. Che never terrorized the population, although some have accused of being a man of power.
- "If he had been a bloodthirsty man; if you read his diary, there are many times he could have taken advantage of the situation and spread fear to achieve his goals, but he did not. He was a man of his word. When he said something, he did it."
This is not a case of one-time stupidity for del Toro. In an interview in August, he compared Guevara to Batman, "full of dignity, a warrior who believed that he could fight for the helpless."
And with word out that del Toro as Ché is an "Oscar-worthy" performance, it is likely we'll read and hear more of this nonsense from him and others involved with the movie.
The truth is a lot less sensational: Ché Guevara was a cold-blooded murderer and no amount of air-brushing of history will change that. Except for the Castro brothers, no one is more responsible for the tyranny and the poverty in Cuba today that Ché Guevara, and the world is fortunate that his attempts to foment revolution elsewhere were so disastrous.
That is Guevara's legacy, and any attempts to distort that, with a movie or a T-shirt, is the ultimate in bad taste.
For more about the real Ché Guevara, enroll in the Ché Guevara Re-education Program.
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