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01/11/2005:

"Guevara's struggle for Cuba's revolution"

Peter Calder claims the movie The Motorcycle Diaries is sentimental and dishonest. He means the director should have let us know that the young romantic rebel, Ernesto Guevara, later turned into a "Stalinist revolutionary thug who summarily executed dissenters; who founded the forced labour camps that would later hold dissidents, homosexuals and people with Aids; who ached for the Cuban missile crisis to escalate into purifying nuclear holocaust; who abandoned the revolution because he thought Castro was a sissy; and who died in Bolivia organising a peasant revolution that failed to enlist the support of so much as a single Bolivian peasant".

Full Article : nzherald.co.nz