Friday, January 30, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Ron Radosh: Benicio del Toro: Che Guevara's Useful Idiot - 'We all know that Benicio del Toro is a great actor, and that in Steven Soderbergh's new film "Che," del Toro sounds and looks exactly like Che Guevara. Most of us- at least readers of this website-also know the truth about the real Che Guevara. The man was the prototype of a ruthless and vicious Stalinist killer; a man who exulted in repressing political dissenters, and who personally set up and ran the mass firing squad executions that took place immediately after Castro's victory in 1959. The facts are easy to obtain. First, read any of the articles by Cuban exile Humberto Fontova, such as this one in which Fontova notes that when the movie made its Miami premier, "protestors outside the Carlyle Theater brandished pictures of relatives murdered by Che Guevara, [while] del Toro paid tribute to their murderer." Fontova rightfully calls del Toro "Che's Useful Idiot."...'
