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By December 1964, Che Guevara had emerged as a "revolutionary statesman of world stature" and thus traveled to New York City as head of the Cuban delegation to speak at the United Nations. During his impassioned address, he criticized the United Nations inability to confront the "brutal policy of apartheid" in South Africa, proclaiming "can the United Nations do nothing to stop this?" Guevara then denounced the United States policy towards their black population, stating: "Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men — how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom?"
An indignant Guevara ended his speech by reciting the Second Declaration of Havana, decreeing Latin America a "family of 200 million brothers who suffer the same miseries." This "epic," Guevara declared, would be written by the "hungry Indian masses, peasants without land, exploited workers, and progressive masses." To Guevara the conflict was a struggle of mass and ideas, which would be carried forth by those "mistreated and scorned by imperialism" who were previously considered "a weak and submissive flock." With this "flock", Guevara now asserted, "Yankee monopoly capitalism" now terrifyingly saw their "gravediggers." It would be during this "hour of vindication" Guevara pronounced, that the "anonymous mass" would begin to write its own history "with its own blood", and reclaim those "rights that were laughed at by one and all for 500 years." Guevara ended his remarks to the United Nations general assembly by hypothesizing that this "wave of anger would "sweep the lands of Latin America", and that the labor masses who "turn the wheel of history", for the first time were "awakening from the long, brutalizing sleep to which they had been subjected.
Guevara later learned that there were two failed attempts on his life by Cuban exiles during his stop at the U.N. complex. The first from Molly Gonzales who tried to break through barricades upon his arrival with a seven-inch hunting knife, and later during his address by Guillermo Novo with a timer-initiated bazooka that was fired off target from a boat in the East River at the United Nations Headquarters. Afterward, Guevara commented on both incidents stating that "it is better to be killed by a woman with a knife than by a man with a gun", while adding with a languid wave of his cigar that the explosion had "given the whole thing more flavor."
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Castro's government manipulates the information we receive. My dad supported Castro when he first came to power. As a government worker, he saw how Batista's government stole from the people. Then Castro took over. My dad soon found out that nothing had changed. My dad finally decided to leave Cuba when one day my 6 year old brother came home from school and told my dad that he did not have to listen to him, only to Castro.
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Yeah! I'm Russian and I regret USSR's fall! In USSR there was no homelessness, no hunger, free tuition, free food for everyone, guaranteed employment, very low crime
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@WTFukinshit You don't know what you talking about, boy. Maybe you should stop watching your propaganda media and do some research and watch youtube videos. That's why your completely brainwashed. Che wasn't a murder. It was the Batista US-backed government who murdered all those people. Che saved all those people. Your false propaganda media shows bad sides of him. So don't say something that you don't know, boy.
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@WTFukinshit Che wasn't killed by firing squad. They sent Mario Teran into a room to execute him and make his wounds look like he was shot in battle. No squad, one man. The "Don't shoot," quote was said at the battle where he was captured, before the events of his actual execution. When Teran hesitated to fire, Che made fun of him. Yeah, totally sounds like a bitch to me. *sarcasm*
That's why he's immortalized as a revolutionary hero and you're going to be the comment everyone is searching for.
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A true Latin American
A true hero
A true man.
Che will live on, and his ideals of freedom and righteousness for all will be passed on like a torch long after we are all gone.
Viva Latino America!
Viva La Revolucion.
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@WTFukinshit hell yea fuck all these comies
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@LiveLongCommunism (cont) were "Don't shoot me, I'm worth more alive than dead. " Che was a BITCH, just like you!
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@LiveLongCommunism You learn about Che from Hollywood, but I'm a stupid brainwashed pile of shit? Che had a very popular Colonal executed by the name of Cornelio Rojas, who was a soldier's soldier. Of course, a punk bitch coward like you wounldn't understand what that means, You've never been a soldier and wouldn't make it as one. Upon his execution Colonel Rojas' last words were, "ready, aim, fire"...spoken to the firing squad...years later Che died by firing squad...his last words (*cont)
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@WTFukinshit You neither. What a dumbass.
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@cowboyzkingz35 OREALLY.jpg Because to the world knowledge the USA today is the purest form of fascism since the nazis in 1942.
@darthtalon1984 Cuba still has higher literacy and life expectancy than the U.S., no homelessness, no hunger, free tuition through a PhD, free food for everyone, guaranteed employment, very low crime, and a nation free from the capitalist gusano vampires like you! Cubans have dignity, they are better educated than Americans, more cultured, and understand how imperalism and monopoly capitalism enslaves the globe. Cuba is a model for the developing world. VIVA CHE ! VIVA FIDEL!
4Barbudos 7 months ago 25
@4Barbudos Viva la revolution!
wesleysonic 3 months ago 2