Che Guevara revived for a movie revolution

[John Lindsey]

As the Cuban revolution celebrates its 50th anniversary, it's hard to recall the enmity that led the United States to threaten and embargo its small neighbor for all these decades. Oh, right, Cuba is a communist regime, so we can't trade with them, just like, uh, China? U.S. foreign policy may be dubious, but there's no doubt surrounding the continued potency of Cuba's most famous revolutionary, Ernesto "Che" Guevara. An Argentine doctor-turned-rebel who helped Fidel Castro overthrow Cuba's dictatorship, Guevara was eventually executed while trying to export the revolution to Bolivia in 1967. Guevara lives on, though, as a totemistic martyr figure for the secular left; anti-Yanqui, anti-imperialist hero to Latin America's new left (including, ironically, Bolivia's current president);...

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