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  • I have an absolutely FANTASTIC idea that may help Bolivian tourism: Build a guilded outhouse on the site of Che's death so that capitalists from around the world can come and relieve themselves. $50 to piss on his death site. $80 to take a shit there.

    The revenue may help with Bolivian social spending.

  • Remember "Milk" with Sean Penn? Did the movie mention his support of the murderous, lunatic and extreme People's Temple? Course Not!

  • @darwincity The People's Temple?! Uh OHHHHH!

    Ain't truth a bitch?

  • @QuartuvLarry More or less, yes.

  • Fontova is clearly a revisonist polemicist. His frequent use of profanity and childish insults also points him more towards clownish sophistry than scholarship. His work is not taken seriously in the academic community because he purposely omits all information that fails to conform to his desired narrative. He works backwards by starting with his conclusion = "Che is evil" and then inserts any cherry picked information that will help support this view.

  • My have times changed! I was taught that Che was a mass murderer! Today in schools, he is taught as a hero! I know this because I know some school teachers. Again we see the dumbing down af America.

  • I have a question for Savage... being a Jew why are the Jews so actively promoting far left ideas and the homosexual movement? The Jews are the biggest promoters of these two ideas and it is more than just a coincidence. Or are these jews just doing the dirty work for the Establishment?

  • @RamsesReturns Jews are they're own worst enemy. Leftist Jews are self-hating traitors. Only Christian America and Christian Europe have the balls to stand up for Israel.

  • @kevyster hmmm... it seems odd because it creates self inflicting wounds, perhaps it's done just for the money. Dunno, would like to know why they are so eager to shoot themselves in the foot.

  • @RamsesReturns

    Interesting question, indeed?

  • the only mass murderers that liberals hate are white men... anyone else is a hero.

    Look at that movie Monster about the female serial killer... they made that woman out to be a victim and she was a serial killer.

  • there's a word for soderburgh - apologist

  • hitler was a 'hard-ass' too..

  • 0:50 poster boy for liberal America

  • Say what you want about Che, you can't drag Kropotkin or Bakunin through the mud.

    Smash the state.

  • Look this videos up in youtube to see how much "contribution" communism gave to the world:

    The bloody history of Communism

    v=E6z65il0smQ

    Born and raised in a communist concentration camp

    v=Ms4NIB6xroc

    Michael Savage and Humberto Fontova discuss Che Guevara

    v=0JGmRQxmtDk

    Also, look up this article in your favorite internet search engine "Ten Shots At Che Guevara" By Alvaro Vargas Llosa to read about what the real Che was really like.

  • id be happy to murder greenspan bernanke and these banksters

  • che was beautiful - i love him

    he was no bankster type he was the opposite and fought them - but the higher he went the situations change... this octopus system has swallowed the greatest men up

    savage is a real hypocrite but he's right on a lot of things but he has real blinkers on sometimes...he speaks for himself - moses was a murderer too - savage

  • Marxism and fascism have a long history of gloryfying murderers and pathological psychopaths as heroes and saviours in films.

    The bolshevicks actually INVENTED this genre.

    (Serge Eisenstein and Leni Riefenstahl).

  • Poo on you!

    I love that line, ha!

  • i need one of those t shirts

  • I came on my girlfriends Che T-shirt..lol

  • che guevarra justified in the same way as american soldiers are when they go over to iraq and kill people. che guevarra was a soldier. soldiers do nothing but kill. what do you expect? you right wing people are hipocritical idiots

  • Are you serious luxfero? You actually want to compare Che to our American soldiers? Then I suppose that Stalin, Hitler they were also comparable to our American soldiers?? Really a twisted one aren't you?

  • @3shemar To compare the two biggest mass murderers in history to Che, is a testament to scary ignorance or an attempt at propaganda, which you apparently consumed far too much of.

    He was a revolutionary, who was fighting fascism in his country. US-backed fascism btw.

    Was he a Killer? Yes

    Were the circumstances a brutal civil war ? Yes

    Was he a 'hero'? I don't know.

    He was neither the 'evil' mass murderer nor the angelic good guy that the people on the extreme of both sides make him out to be

  • che's main goal was not to kill people but in a war it happens.

  • "In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide." ~General Douglas MacArthur About the quote: MacArthur was an American army general who lived 1880-1964.

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  • Now, People my suggestion is to get out of your own little greedy world and analyze your surroundings.Check numbers of how many innocent people have died due to wars in which many, the USA have been involved..Thats why we are called the most powerful nation of the WOLRD... Watch documentaries of war, a true reality of what happens in war zones... yea i know that many say well yeah Is war What do We expect..Just THINK how would it be if the war would be here In the US..It would be Terrible!...

  • The REALITY of it is many children and women in Iraq are baring arms as well as suicide bombing our troops. They are not civilians when they are suicide bombing soldiers and their own innocent people. Do you see us executing people? Really? Then you need a reality check. You may not believe in the war but you should believe in our soldiers. Ignorance is not Bliss when you believe we are there for oil or greed, then you are in deed, in need of some education. Che, Stalin, Hitler were murderers.

  • I wish soderbergh would make a biopic called "Saddam" or "Stalin" or or maybe "Bin Laden"...

  • Long live Che.

  • Except he's dead.

    Along with all the defenseless capitalist "pigs" he placed on the receiving ends of firing squads.

  • Che is a murder. We wonder how these liberal media has brain wash the leftists population. This is a absolute SHAM, and these people are the same people who cry wolf whenever a conservatives ask a honest question like "Why Obama dId not declare terrorists act when the Ft. Hood shooting took place?" No! instead we get all political correctness and liberal spin like "He was harrassed."  Bull shit!! Wake up sheeple!!

  • Leni Riefenstahl of our times, the filmmaker of Joseph Stalkin? This guy is so full of shit...

  • The filmmaker for Hitler.

  • Mike is correct.

  • Good points, Mr. Savage! That director tries to confuse with all his intellectual talk, but it all comes down to this: "And I can't give my opinion of Adolf Hitler, I have to show this from his point of view..." So, according to him, it should be okay to portray why Hitler hated Jews, why it was "necessary" to have them killed, in order not to show a biased view. Michael Savage hit the nail on the head about why that director's reasoning was flawed.

  • In the Realities of South Americas Juntas ,people saw Hope in "Che " !

  • If you think this is bad wait until MACHETTE is released.

  • If you love Cuba so much, MOVE THERE! You are a propaganda dupe of the Communist machine. You've been brainwashed by all the revisionist "history" from the Left.

  • "Empirical evidence" my tuchis. All so-called "history" books in schools and colleges are left-wing revisionist propaganda. You only believe the Big Lies that are fed you by The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, the AP et al. All of which are liberal-left. You are a Communist tool through and through. It is said that the only ones who think Communism is so great are those who've never actually lived under such a murderous, destructive system.

  • P.S. You have no business lecturing anyone on "fearmongering." Because your man Obama used fearmongering to ram through his destructive freedom-killing legislations. And Al Gore and his fellow eco-maniacs have been using fearmongering all the time on so-called "global warming" to scare people into surrendering their freedoms and to seize control over everybody's lives.

  • Have you ever listened to yourself? You're nothing more than a mouth piece for right wing radio and cable. You're using the same diatribe and talking points. Foxnews, MSNBC, CNN and most media and radio are in the business of ratings which leads to sponsors and then a nice check. Now you're saying college and schools are left? Whats next, the earth is flat? Or how about the earth is 6,000 years? Don't take this the wrong way, turn of the radio and T.V. Libraries and college are reliable.

  • You've been watching WAAAAY too much of these leftist stooges Olbermann, Blitzer, Maddow, Matthews etc. YOU are ONE BIG TALKING POINT for the radical Communist agenda. And colleges are hotbeds of one-sided, America-hating Marxist propaganda, with some hosting Islamist jihadists as "tenured" professors. You are the ultimate proof of this leftist brainwashing. Go peddle your garbage on HuffPo, DailyKos, Salon, the homo-Nazi smear group Media Matters or any other blogs affiliated with George Soros.

  • There you go again. I just criticized all media including MSNBC. Look, obviously you get your history from the media and seek them out to reinforce your political and personal ideology. The information I get from the mass media is small compared from what I get through academia. Even then, I still cross reference. Don't believe every thing you see or hear. Lastly, I challenge you to scrutinize your information resources a little bit more carefully.

  • For the record, Fox News isn't all THAT "conservative." Would a truly conservative outlet have profiles of half-naked starlets as Fox's website has? Would a truly conservative outlet totally ignore the slaughter of Iranians demonstrating in the streets in favor of mourning for a commercial pitchman and a moonwalking circus freak, as Fox's "news" coverage has been doing? (Never mind Obama's taking Chavez's and Castro's side on Honduras.)

  • On top of that, almost 20% of Fox is now owned by Saudi Prince Alawaleed - and this has already borne an invidious influence on their coverage of the Israeli-"Palestinian" conflict. (For the record, Alwaleed also owns a chunk of CNN's parent, Time Warner.)

  • I would have cross reference your information with respect to ownership of those outlets. To tell you the truth, I'm not very familiar with 20% you mentioned. I suppose the lesson here is hold the media's feet to the fire, regardless of what political partisanship drives them.

  • Alwaleed's initial stake in Fox, four years ago, was 5 or 6 percent, and has grown steadily since. G-d forbid when we get to the point where the Saudis control 100% of that organization. It's also telling that Murdoch has told his reporters and commentators to "go soft" on Obama and his naked Marxist agenda. That's conservative?

  • Me and you will disagree on this one, too. My disagreement comes from observation rather than political partisan politics. From my understanding, right wing radio and cable having been having a field day with Obama. The President has been called every name in the book, including Fox and other outlets portraying the President as a pervert, alleging he inappropriately looked at a young women. The line between journalism and the tabloids has become blurred at best.

  • It shows how bad Obama REALLY is when Helen Thomas - the typical example of a leftist partisan journalist, who harangued G.W. Bush all his Presidency - complained about the Obama team's uber-control of the media, calling it worse than what Nixon tried. But most of those in the media, and it has been shown, have voted Democrat up and down the line. The partisanship in the media DOES stink. But Fox is only one outlet. Especially compared with everyone else.

  • Look, as far the slaughter of Iranians is concerned, I certainly didn't notice the mass media giving the same level of attention to the genocide in Darfur. Ask for Obama "siding with Chavez and Castro", the vast majority of world condemns the coup. I will agree with you on Fox news, they are not that conservative...however, they are still a business, and like the rest of the media outlets, they have to create sensationalism and grandstanding to divide opinion and create ratings.

  • No-one noticed when the Islamist butchers who run the Sudan were slaughtering black Christians and animists left and right. Even the Hollywood leftist phonies didn't get to notice about the Sudan until the Muslim warlords began killing their fellow Muslims. But we have no business whatsoever being in Darfur. It would only serve the self-interests of the corrupt, useless, America-hating, dictator-loving U.N. That plus those seeking to "feel good" about themselves.

  • I don't know about serving the interest of the corrupt. Remember, the first to suffer and last to come out of that suffering are the weak. As far as the U.S. not having self-interest in that region, not necessarily, but, the same logic must apply to Iran as well and Israel. Remember, Egypt is second to foreign aid with Israel being first. If you cut off Darfur, the same goes for everyone else, including Israel.

  • Funny how the same Left who screams "cut off aid to Israel" has said nothing about foreign aid to the Arab world. There are some who have advocated that ALL foreign aid to ALL countries, no matter who or what they are, be cut.

  • Let me know when a well-financed feature film glorifying Pinochet comes out.

  • Awesome response!

  • @OccidentalSoapbox

    Humbert Fontova praised Pinochet in vile book!

    So, i have no sympathy for those exucted by communist forces in Cuba: their just angry that their side wasn't doing the killing!

  • @OccidentalSoapbox He wasn't as charismatic as Guevara, sadly. Mel Brooks is quite close physically, but would you put Mel Brooks as Pinochet?

  • @OccidentalSoapbox

    And I am sure that is coming soon financed by Ollanta Humala!

  • My father was a MP for the Batista Army. He was escorting a bus with civilians because the rebels would shoot the buses, trying to paralize the transit system. His jeep was ambushed by rebels and all soldiers in it were wounded and excecuted except my father. My father survived because he felt the steel of the gun being pointed to his head, and at a last second moved his head and was shot in the jaw instead. He was left for dead.

    My father then spent 10 years in prison as reward for surviving.

  • This is one of the many events during the thuggery of Castro's regime. Pleased that your father survived it.

  • Obama is one step away from his plan to commit mass genocide on the Mexican population as soon as they are done making all the toys for next years Christmas season

  • Fuck Che, i actually HAD respect for Soderbergh because he has directed some great visual arts, my fave of his is Traffic, but using a feature for Propaganda just makes him a more of a Television network director in my opinion.

    Push films aside now Steven and focus on Propaganda for Television, what's next, maybe he might direct a film about Barrack Obama, starring will smith.

    I hate this Soderbergh now, he's ruined his career.

  • Mike thinks Che was a murderer, South Americans think Bush is a murderer, Its a tie unfortunately

    But there's an old saying:

    "One man's freedom fighter, is another man's terrorist"

  • Unfortunately for many millions who died as a result of Communist policies it is not a tie.

    Between Stalin and Mao enacting "economic reforms" and five-year-plans and destroying agricultural systems tens of millions were methodically starved to death (including millions of Ukrainians on purpose by Stalin). Millions more died in purges and gulags and "cultural revolutions."

    Leftist political theory has killed more people than the US "military-industrial complex" by several orders of magnitude.

  • To 'OccidentalSoapbox': Exactly. Not to mention political dissidents drugged up and placed in mental hospitals after being deemed "enemies of the State." Sounds like the left-wing Kool-Aid drinkers in this country who think anybody who disagrees with them should be drugged up and institutionalized.

  • @OccidentalSoapbox - Agreed, even in China today the general agreement is that extreme Marxism is bad thing and Mao was only good at keep China independent and strong...but his internal polices were terrible and killed many millions.

    Something people also don't mention is all the good capitalism has done in the last 100 years (medicines, technology etc) which has spread throughout the world.

  • @OccidentalSoapbox Ah, Hiroshima? Vietnam? Irak? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand we have a tie again!

  • @OccidentalSoapbox

    You are right on the money. Communism along with Facism has done more harm to our world than any other ideology.

  • @NYCX7

    Bush is a murderer, but a political one at that. Che was a stonehearted executioner. He had many aliases my favorite is the Bolivian Butcher. The father of Castro imo. Che is the reason why the Castro Brothers are so demented.

  • I call them heroes

  • spelled mic wrong...

  • Soderbergh is an outstanding director.

  • the new Che movie is a great movie.

  • The old Che poster always reminded me of a similar looking poster of Jim Morrison. And I always thought a good portion of the adoration of Che was that he was good looking and "hip" (in the 60s it was oh-so hip to be considered a "revolutionary").

    So...we have Che who was a Stalinist and a flat-out murderer for Castro, and Morrison, a drunk and heroin addict (albeit handsome) who basically killed himself.

    No surprise to me that it's anti-establishment scum like this that the Left adores.

  • Che was a murderer. You can not change history.

  • waj300: And yet another european all too willing to overlook the tiny inconvenciences of communism (Stalinists no less)...because you just can't give up your dreams of the utopia promised by the demagogues.

    By the look of your profile page, you're of Pakistani decent. How absurd; a member of the world's most intolerant religion who is is defending the world's most intolerant and murderous political philosophy.

    Che was a Stalinist murderer. Fact! Deal with it.

  • I don't remember ever hearing of Washington personally executing hundreds of British officers and teenagers or establishing an economy that left the new colonists hungry and eager to leave.

    RATM broke up and Bush is out of office. Stop living in the past and get a life.

  • Has anyone ever noticed Che kinda looks like one of those Cavemen from the Gecko commercials, or one of the chimps from the Planet of The Apes! LOL

  • Something for our Marxist "friends" to chew:

    watch?v=P3uFUxMwA1w

  • Che was just a glorified hobo. He was a filthy piece of shit.

  • @QuartuvLarry

    Yes he was! and even some of his former soldiers described him as a Totalitarian.

  • @VRRA4 One wonders why his CURRENT soldiers (retards) don't see that.

  • @VRRA4 Everyone in Argentina called him "Chancho" so I'll just call him "Ernie the Pig"

  • The battle against Batista was a push-over - only a few hundred were killed on both sides. He personally executed dozens without a trial, including teenagers, by shooting them in the head at close range. As Director of the National Bank of Cuba he ruined the Cuban economy in a matter of months. He was an ardent Stalinist. During the Cuban missile crisis, he wanted nuclear war with the US rather than a Soviet back-down. As a

  • Continuation of previous post

    guerilla leader he was considered to be tyrannical, pig-headed and foolhardy by the men he led.

  • Wow, look at all the 60s refugees coming out of the woodwork.

  • Amen to that.

  • Did you by any chance wear the Nazi uniform when typing this?

  • Fuck off, beaner.

  • 1st class idiot that sod-erbergh, low life left wing propaganda pimp indeed! That precious revolution of his allowed missiles to be stationed in Cuba to nuke his parents and him out of existence! A necessary move, right? Castro was willing to sacrifice the lives of the Cubans, without their consent of course, to advance his damn communist agenda.

  • I like the way Che Guevarra was killed. There is nothing heroic about a pistol shot to the chest which, in one way or the other, is what all Communists get unless you draw an iron curtain around you.

  • I like the way Michael Savage speaks out.

  • That guy is an idiot. He has to portray him like that? Why the fuck does he HAVE to portray him at all? Why did he HAVE to make a movie about che? Did someone twist his arm? No, he made a movie about che and portayed him as the same way the loony left always portays him. They talk about him being a revolutionary and such and such. But not about what he was fighting for, or demonizing his methods.

  • (CONTINUED)In other words, they (neo-cons) became the worst of both worlds, corrupted and brainwashed American Marxist-Atheists who became shallow, phony Christian greed mongers and war profiteers. Marxists here want everyone to forget real conservatives like Teddy Roosevelt and the like, because true conservatives, though supporting capitalism, have always been against invading or occupying foreign nations, are against "outsourcing" and modern global trade agreements (which rape the poor), etc.

  • One more thing- Neo-conservatives (at this point I consider Savage old school conservative after he got over the Bush neo-con madness), Nazis, and Marxists all have the same thing in common- they are the world's most dangerously brainwashed robots, capable of murdering or supporting murder at the drop of a dime. It's no suprise that the Neo-Conservative movement has roots in Marxism, because the original Neo-Conservatives were left-wing Marxists turned right-wing Capitalists.

  • I agree that Hitler hated Bolshevism. But Bolsheviks were violently anti-Menshevik. Stalinists were violently anti-Trotskyite. The Nazi SS was anti-Nazi-SA and liquidated it as an organization. Just because two organizations hate each other to death doesn't mean they are not both socialist.

  • You are an idiot.

    That is all.

  • I would enjoy seeing a movie about Hitler showing him as great revolutionary man. Though Hitler was evil it might be entertaining to see the director being questioned about the film.

  • i agree. maybe he can direct a movie next showing mussolini dancing through a field holding two disabled childrens hand while working miracles healing the blind lol. far left subhuman slime never fail to amaze,while at the same time, disgust me

  • Che Guevara:

    -responsible for the execution of thousands of political prisoners in Cuba(for no reason at all or for opposing Communism).

    -enjoyed torturing & abusing prisoners, including children.

    -was instrumental in setting up Cuba's forced labor camps & secret police apparatus.

    -tried to organiza terrorist attacks against American civilians, but he largely failed in this.

    -was a committed hard-line Stalinist, even called himself Stalin 2 in his early days.

  • Some facts to keep in mind:

    -Soviet Union & Nazi Germany were allies before 1941.

    -they divided Europe between themselves. -Gestapo & NKVD traded unwanted persons

    -Soviet Union provided Nazi Germany with oil, supplies, and military training

    -Soviet Union & Nazi Germany attacked and divided Poland. They held a victory parade in Brest-Litovsk.

    Plus all the "regular" activities of the Soviet Union - the Ukrainian genocide in the 30's, the killing fields, the Katyn mass murder, pogroms et cetera.

  • And Leo Penn (the father of second-generation Hollywood Marxist Sean Penn) opposed the war effort in World War II so long as the Nazi-Soviet alliance remained in effect (even going so far as to oppose efforts to help Britain in their fight against the Nazi blitzkrieg) - up until Germany's invasion of Stalingrad in 1941, after which Penn and the other Commie dupes in Hollywood changed their tune and favored going to war against the Nazis.

  • I know, if only we had reeducation camps as advocated by Stalin, Mao and William Ayers. Then we would all think correctly.

  • "i would have attacked that "he's a murderer guy."

    Another piece of human garbage threatening violence on anyone that doesn't want to live in his sick fantasy world. Get beat up much in school, did you?

  • terrorist

  • not you i was talking about this guy named amnsterdam or something he was spewing some anti american bullshit oh and for your info im a teenager and still in high school so as we say in high school FUCK YOU PINKO COMMIE!!!

  • Go away, commie.

  • Fascists are leftists. They are national socialists as opposed to international socialists (communists).

  • Some quotes:

    Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

    "Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the State... This state is to be the arch-employer, the arch-administrator and ruler, and the arch-caucus-boss."

    -Sir Winston Churchill

    "Basically, National Socialism and Marxism are the same." - Adolf Hitler

  • "There is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which is alive everywhere in Russia except where there are Jewish Marxists. I have always made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once. The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communists always will."

    A.Hitler

  • "The decisive factor is that the State, through the Party, is supreme over them regardless of whether they are owners or workers. All that is unessential; our socialism goes far deeper. It establishes a relationship of the individual to the State, the national community. Why need we trouble to socialize banks and factories? We socialize humans."

    A.Hitler

  • We already know he used national socialist in his name to get support away from the communists, that was his plan. "The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it." A. Hitler

  • We also know that these two evil empires were allied and that they were very similar to each other.

    Nazi-Communist victory parade:

    watch?v=5iA6ikey99s

  • Sorry, wrong again. The Non-aggression pact was similar to the ones signed with France and Britain, and were worthless, which is why the red army was ready when the Nazi's came. I am sure there is video on here of the British PM and the French both celebrating what they thought was an effort to avert war. The soviets were still coming out of civil war, the last thing they wanted was another one.

  • Shows how much you know. Fascists are right wing extremists. The term National Socialist was a misnomer Hitler used to attract the middle classes away from the socialists and communists; both of them were put in concentration camps. If savage knew anything about CHE, he would also know that Che was actualy anti-Stalinist, and was criticized by the soviets for it. Savage was educated by soundbites and newspaper articles (the ones he likes). He's a moron with no political capabilities whatsoever.

  • NSDAP - German National Socialist Workers Party. Sounds pretty left-wing. Hitler had plenty of Communists and Bolsheviks working for him, because he valued their brutality and lack of empathy. Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini - all Marxists and Socialists. Che was very much a Stalinists, he even called himself Stalin II. He was also responsible for executing thousands of people. Google for cuban katyn.

  • where did you learn history, that is a complete fabrication of the truth. National socialist was a misnomer. All communists and socialists were put into concentration camps. Mussolini and Hitler were fascists not socialists or communists. Che made a famous speech in Algeria condemning Stalinist tactics. Hundreds were executed during the revolution, not thousands. Even the UN admits that fact.

  • "that is a complete fabrication of the truth"

    How convenient.

    Che was a Stalinist to the core. He personally ordered the execution of thousands of people. He admitted to it at least twice, the last time being before he was executed and left to rot for his heinous crimes. There were plenty of eyewitnesses as well - Luis Ortega, a Cuban journalist for example. Che also manages to demolish the perfectly good Cuban economy within months, bringing it down to ruins.

  • That's just not true. If you read his speeches and memoirs you would see that, i doubt you spend much time reading Che himself and more time reading others opinions. The Cuban economy was brought down due to US aggression and blockades, that's just facts.

  • Don't even bother trying to whitewash Che. He is a known Stalinist mass murderer. He also managed to bring Cuban economy down into ruins, which is also a proven fact.

  • In 1960 Castro appointed Che as Cuba's "Economics Minister." Within months the Cuban peso, a currency historically equal to the U.S. dollar and fully backed by Cuba's gold reserves, was practically worthless. The following year Castro appointed Che as Cuba's Minister of Industries. Within a year a nation that previously had higher per capita income than Austria and Japan, a huge influx of immigrants and the 3rd highest protein consumption in the hemisphere was rationing food-->

  • -->closing factories, and hemorraghing hundreds of thousands of it's most productive citizens from every sector of its society, all who were grateful to leave with only the clothes on their back. Che himself eventually confessed to his multiple economic errors and failings.