The best book written on Che Guevara
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> Havana, Sept 14 (acn) Several books by Cuban writers Adys Cupull and
> Froilan Gonzalez on late legendary guerrilla fighter Ernesto Che
> Guevara will be published this year in Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia,
> Mexico, Italy and China to commemorate his 80th birthday.
>
> The Ochenta publishing house, sponsored by a network of solidarity
> with Cuba in Rosario, Argentina, will reprint "Entre nosotros"(1992),
> "Calida presencia" (1994), "Entre la multitud" (1995), "Estrellas
> insurrectas" and "Recuerdos de familia" (1997).
>
> The same books will be launched in Ecuador while "De Nancahuasa a la
> Higuera" will be published in Bolivia and "Calida presencia" in
> China.
>
> Cupull and Gonzalez have authored some 30 books on Cuban and world
> personalities and a number of their works have been translated into
> different languages.
>
> Their most recent work, "Sin Olvido: Crimenes en la Higuera", was
> commended by renowned journalist Coco Lopez and director of the
> Ochenta publishing house Miguel Angel Ferrari.
>
> Both scholars stressed the importance of the text and noted it was
> successfully launched for the first time in August this year at the
> Rosario Book Fair.
>
> The Cuban writers have donated their royalties to three Solidarity
> with Cuba publishing houses in Argentina, Bolivia and Cuba.
Hollywood idolizes him. Campus liberals worship him. Now, meet the
real Che Guevara: murderer, torturer, terrorist
Exposing the Real Che Guevara
by Humberto Fontova
Forty years after his death, it is impossible to escape the iconic
image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara. From T- shirts to posters to Hollywood
movies like The Motorcycle Diaries, he is still celebrated as a
selfless, fearless martyr to the cause of "the people" - while Mao Tse
Tung, Ho Chi Minh, and even his comrade-in-arms Fidel Castro have long
since lost their luster. And now a major Hollywood biopic is about to
lionize him to a new generation. But as Cuban exile Humberto Fontova
reveals in this myth-shattering book, the real Che Guevara was a cold-
blooded murderer who thought nothing of firing a gun into the stomach
of a woman six months pregnant, whose only crime was that her family
opposed him. He was also, Fontova proves, a sadistic torturer, a
coward in battle, a hypocrite who lusted after material luxuries while
carefully cultivating his image as a lover of the poor and oppressed,
and a remorseless terrorist who unleashed horrific violence throughout
Latin America.
Exposing the Real Che Guevara is based on scores of interviews with
the few people still alive who interacted with Che and can tell the
truth about him -- including survivors of Che's atrocities, and the
CIA agent who interrogated Che just hours before the Bolivian
government executed him.
You'll learn:
How Che once declared that "a revolutionary must become a cold killing
machine motivated by pure hate." (So why does The Motorcyle Diaries
portray him as a gentle soul man who loved lepers as Jesus did?)
How Che had a very bloody (and typically cowardly) hand in putting
down an insurgency by landless peasants - in which 80 percent of these
anti-communist guerrillas were executed on the spot upon capture, a
Che specialty. (So why is he always portrayed as a revolutionary
struggling on behalf of "the people"?)
How Che longed to destroy New York City with nuclear missiles. (So why
does Angelina Jolie sport a Che tattoo, while denouncing violence as a
U.N. ambassador of goodwill?)
How Che promoted book burning and signed death warrants for authors
who disagreed with him. (So why did Jean Paul Sartre praise him as a
"perfect" intellectual, and why did Time name him one of the 100 most
influential people of the century?)
How Che made amazingly racist sentiments about blacks. (So why do
Jesse Jackson, Jay-Z, and Mike Tyson say nice things about him?)
How Che persecuted homosexuals, long-haired rock and roll fans, and
religious people. (So why do Carlos Santana, Madonna, Johnny Depp, and
Robert Redford think he's cool?)
How Che, the devoted communist, loved material wealth and private
luxuries. (So why do the mainstream media still depict him as an
ascetic?)