Che Guevara’s Rendezvous With Justice
41 years ago this week (Oct.9, 1967) in Boliva, Ernesto “Che” Guevara got a major dose of his own medicine. Without trial, he was declared a murderer, stood against a wall and shot.
Historically speaking, justice has rarely been better served. The number of men Che’s “revolutionary tribunals” condemned to death in the identical manner range anywhere from 400 to 1,892. The number of defenseless men (and boys) Che personally murdered with his own pistol runs to the dozens.
“Executions?” Che Guevara exclaimed while addressing the hallowed halls of the UN General Assembly on Dec. 9, 1964. “Certainly, we execute!” he declared to the claps and cheers of that august body. “And we will continue executing as long as it is necessary! This is a war to the DEATH against the Revolution’s enemies!”
According to “The Black Book of Communism,” those firing-squad executions had reached around 10,000 by that time. “I don’t need proof to execute a man,” snapped Che to a judicial underling in 1959. “I only need proof that it’s necessary to execute him!”
Not that you’d surmise any of the above from the mainstream media or academia-much less Hollywood. From the high priests of the Fourth Estate, Che Guevara gets only accolades. Time magazine, for instance, honors Che Guevara among “The 100 Most Important People of the Century.”
The man who declared, “a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate” (and set a spirited example), who boasted that he executed from “revolutionary conviction” rather than from any “archaic bourgeois details” like judicial evidence, and who urged “atomic extermination” as the final solution for those American “hyenas” (and came hearth-thumpingly close with Nuclear missiles in October 1962), is hailed by Time-not just among the “most important” people of the century-but in the “Heroes and Icons” section, alongside Anne Frank, Andrei Sakharov and Rosa Parks.