Best historical latin america biographies according to redditors
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"It is no secret that the Beatles and many other rock bands were banned in Cuba during the early years of the Revolution. Every western band with English lyrics in their repertoire was considered decadent, capitalist and a bad example for the formation of the proper values of the Cuban youth. And it also went for the fashion and subculture that came along. So, rock and roll, the Beatles, jeans, miniskirts, long hair, and English were locked in the same box. And the key thrown away."
http://www.cubanow.cult.cu/pages/articulo.php?sec=17&t=2&item=1063
Also, this video expands on the music bans, which included all jazz and other "frivolous" and "imperialist" music, and was not limited to the Beatles and 1960's rock:
http://reason.com/reasontv/2008/12/11/killer-chic
The relationship between racist thoughts and Che is a subjective one that honestly, probably seems more racist to our 2012 western eyes than is called for. He was certainly less racist than most non-blacks at the time. There are many, many examples of this from his biography and his speeches, as you already know. There are other things that modern ears find troubling though, IMHO it's uncalled for, but there statements made to him that if made by a white person in 2012 would be "racist" (as opposed to statements made by a latin person working in Africa to lead a reolution among blacks)
The negros are lazy comment comes to mind, and the bitterness after Africa with the "We're going to do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the revolution. By which I mean: nothing." comment can be seen that way too. This biography sources the quotes (and even the embittered quote about the negro maintaining racial purity via a staunch aversion to bathing).
http://www.amazon.com/Che-Guevara-A-Revolutionary-Life/dp/0802135587
A few of the links are broken. Here:
> Studies by historian Robert Thurston
> Democracy, East Germany and the Berlin Wall
> The Russians are Coming: The Politics of Anti-Sovietism
> 1936 Constitution of the USSR
> Do Publicly Owned, Planned Economies Work?
> From Farm to Factory
> Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
> 20 Reasons to Support Cuba
> Cuba: A Revolution in Motion
> Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion
> Cuban democracy fact sheet
> The Elected Delegate and the Dissident in Cuba’s Municipal Elections
> Korea Resilient! Socialism in Democratic Korea
> Western DPRK Propaganda: The Worst, Occasionally Hilarious, and Often Racist, Lies
Happy reading, comrades!
Whoa, an A+!
Kidding aside, I am a bit baffled as well. I really think the OP is confusing Che with Castro. There just aren't a lot of takedowns of him I can find on the web that would confirm anything posted, one of the worst is:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2004/09/the_cult_of_che.html
There are a host of books available about Che's life, but I would recommend John Lee Anderson's book to anyone interested:
http://www.amazon.com/Che-Guevara-Revolutionary-Jon-Anderson/dp/0802135587
I have a few you might be interested in:
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky
The footnotes to Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky
Foundation by Isaac Asimov This book will bring up many interesting discussions on power systems, for a discussion group I would recommend just reading the first book in the series and discussing the themes.
The Mexican Revolution by Alan Knight
Dreams of Freedom : A Ricardo Flores Magon Reader
Stone Age Economics by Marshall Sahlins
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
Fragments of Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber
[Zapatista Reader] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Zapatista-Reader-Nation-Books/dp/1560253355)
Our Word is Our Weapon
The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy
Government is Violence by Leo Tolstoy
That's as much as I can remember, but my recommendations are bias towards my interests.
Yes, the hands down best book about the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar is "Killing Pablo" by Mark Bowden. Very well written and very informative.
He wasn't evil; rather, he violently opposed a class of individuals that now have (or had) enormous political power in the United States. Only people from the U.S. really believe he was evil. Go anywhere else and he is revered by most everyone.
Read John Lee Anderson's Che: A Revolutionary Life for a balanced take on him. Disregard BrotherJayne's analysis, which is as simplistic as the ideology he/she is trying to criticize.
EDIT: I also really enjoyed Soderbergh's two-part biopic of Che.
Hey, I don't know if anyone else is into reading about Mexico's cartel stuff but there is a book, "El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin", it's an interview with a guy who used to do this sort of stuff from the time he was a kid up until he had to flee to the US.
Charles Bowden has a lot of books on the US-Mexico issues, they're all really good and worth a read.
from: http://www.amazon.com/Exposing-Real-Che-Guevara-Idolize/dp/1595230270
I'm to lazy to Source this, but I got it from this book, and the author has everything sourced.
Here's a good article by the same writer: http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/2/23/171252.shtml
Yeah he is a pretty polarizing figure. I recommend the following.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0679759409
Che by Jon Anderson.
And to better understand the politics of that time,
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3218736-u-s-presidents-and-latin-american-interventions
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
http://www.amazon.com/Che-Guevara-A-Revolutionary-Life/dp/B004H8GMEY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lee_Anderson
That's barely a sentence, old doesn't != wrong.
>Is old argument that foreging due process is wrong
Yeah people recognised that as retarted centuries ago, who's embarssing themselves here?
https://www.amazon.com/Against-All-Hope-Memoir-Castros/dp/1893554198
What will it get for leftists to condemn Cuban torture as wrong? A rat in your fag ass?
I haven't seen the movie. It's based on an actual book he wrote of the same name.
Also, he kept diaries which surely provide a pretty good insight into his character, the good and the bad. I've only read snippets and quotes from these two sources.
I haven't read it, but this seems to be the best rated biography of Che. I might get it myself.
As far as Churchill goes, he was a really prolific writer and there are tons and tons of biographies on him, so there is a lot to choose from. There's pretty good description of his younger "adventures" called "Churchill: Wanted Dead or Alive". As for his later life, there's about a million good books and documentaries on that.
https://www.amazon.com/Companero-Life-Death-Che-Guevara/dp/0679759409/ref=nodl_
http://www.amazon.com/Che-Guevara-A-Revolutionary-Life/dp/B004H8GMEY
Honestly one of my favorite biographies that I've ever read.
You might like Alive by Piers Paul Read. It's the true story of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes. There is also an excellent documentary about the subject called Stranded: I Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains that is available on Netflix.
Another exciting non-fiction book is The Cruelest Miles by Gay Salisbury and Laney Salisbury. It covers the sled run to and from Nome to deliver serum for the diptheria epidemic in the town. It was this initial run that inspired the annual Iditarod sled run in Alaska.
I'm hardly a proponent of violence but the Mexican government is completely, 100% corrupt and infiltrated wholly by criminal organizations.
If you want to know just how deep it all goes I highly recommend this book:
http://www.amazon.com/El-Sicario-Autobiography-Mexican-Assassin/dp/1568586582
I'm really hoping that they decide to make the book Havana Nocturne into a series one day. It's the most natural sequel to Boardwalk Empire and covers a time period of great change in the mob. 1957 in particular. It was the end of the golden times for the mob.
http://www.amazon.com/Havana-Nocturne-Owned-Cuba-Revolution/dp/0061712744
Interview with the author
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/6vh7d8/t-j--english
I strongly recommend this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Exposing-Real-Che-Guevara-Idolize/dp/1595230270
Fontova learned firsthand what kind of person Guevara was.
Read the source material "Killing Pablo", then watch "Narcos"
https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Pablo-Worlds-Greatest-Outlaw/dp/0142000957
This is a fundamental misunderstanding and it is very common. Communists consider people who are against them in spirit to be the same or worse kinds of enemies as people who take up arms against the eternal revolution. Because they assume Communism is the best thing for all the people of the world, anyone who is against it, is against all of humanity. They were not his own people, you see, the were counter-revolutionaries not even worth consideration as human beings.
Armando Valladares spent those decades in prison, being tortured/starved/abused, because he objected in his mind to the Communists. His example was not special, but he had extraordinary support from people who cared about him. If anyone doesn't know his story, it is worth reading: https://www.amazon.com/Against-All-Hope-Memoir-Castros/dp/1893554198
> Peru. I want to learn more about the history of that place, and visit machu pichu. Very interested.
I've read and recommend:
A Revolutionary Life.
It was in the comment you replied to. At least it is now. I don't know if you saw it or not. Those asteriks can be elusive at times. Although I'm not sure how someone could read this link and not conceive that as racist. Which is what I think this argument is about.
If you like this, you'll be amazed by all the crazy stuff Escobar did. Mark Bowden's "Killing Pablo" is a pretty amazing book about it. (He's also the writer of "Black Hawk Down," for what it's worth.)
Many people love Cartagena and think it's the best city in the country. It has a very charming old walled town and is more pleasant place to wander around and relax than Bogota.
The lost city, about a 5 hour drive from Cartagena, is a fun and unique hike through the jungle. My wife and I chose to do this over going to the Amazon. I posted a short video of the hike here: https://www.reddit.com/r/travel/comments/3zg2h6/i_hiked_to_the_lost_city_in_colombia_last_month/
I heard there's a coffee region in Minca, up north near Cartagena and the Lost City. I didn't visit it myself, but that's an option if you really want to visit coffee but can't fit in a few days to head to Salenta.
In Bogota, we really loved the grafitti walking tour. It was a nice way to see the old town and learn something about modern Colombian culture and politics. Our guide also invited us to a house party that night, which was a great way to get to meet some of the locals. http://bogotagraffiti.com/
In Medellin, we liked the Comuna 13 walking tour. It takes you through some of the poorest areas and talks about some of the present-day civic projects that are improving the lives of the poor, such as the gondolas, escalators, and libraries.
http://www.comuna13tours.com/
For a nice meal in Medellin, go to the restaurant in the middle of the botanical gardens. That was one of our favorites.
I recommend you read the book Killing Pablo. A good read and really educational about the turmoil the country went through between the 1950s and 1990s.
http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Pablo-Worlds-Greatest-Outlaw/dp/0142000957
what, all of it? maybe something by galeano? memories of fire or open veins.
for chile, specifically, muñoz's dictator's shadow is very good. also, i really liked this anthropological text - very good view into current (well, more or less) chilean culture and surprisingly easy to read.
> Honestly literally all of your examples are just a reductionist way of looking at history. Lenin existed in a time period when kings and queens still ruled most of Europe, so if you're looking at that and saying "USSR was a dictatorship", you're ignoring the historical context that MOST OF EUROPE was ruled by dictatorships. In fact, Russia's form of indirect democracy at the time, was rather advanced.
Oh come on. Are you going to make excuses for him? He created the gulag system that Stalin expanded. He created the secret police. He killed millions, uses terror and torture as political tools. Even Bertrand Russel, no right winger, found him to be crude and cruel.
>“When I met Lenin, I had much less impression of a great man than I had expected; my most vivid impressions were of Mongolian cruelty and bigotry. When I put a question to him about socialism in agriculture, he explained with glee how he had incited the poorer peasants against the richer ones, ‘and they soon hanged them from the nearest tree—ha! ha! ha!’ His guffaw at the thought of those massacred made my blood run cold.”
The fact that "most of Europe" was ruled by dictatorships (well, except for two of Russia's allies, FRANCE AND ENGLAND) doesn't excuse his actions.
> In the current day Cuba actually has a rather direct form of democracy which I'd recommend learning about. In fact, their constitution was amended several thousand times by the Cuban people, before being decided upon by a public referendum. Same goes for recent amendments this year.
And with that flat-out LIE I am done with you. I live a few hundred miles from Cuba, work with Cubans, have a good friend whose family fled Cuba (and boy did his dad tell me some stories). I've read numerous books on the topic. This one stuck with me. Cuba is a dictatorship, and that's not merely me saying it. Ask Amnesty International. They don't have free elections, don't have the right to travel, don't have free access to the internet, don't have free speech, don't have freedom of worship, still live under a closed command economy, and still regularly jail people for political "crimes." They are in no way "democratic."
(sigh) This is depressing, because I actually legitimately thought better of you. No joke, no sneering snark, I disagreed with you but I didn't think you would resort to this. I'm an asshole, and I make no apologies for my contempt for Marxists, but I actually had hope with you.
This is the way it always goes. The Marxist assures me that Marxism doesn't have anything to do with the dictatorships of the communist nations... and then the very same person making that argument starts defending those very same dictatorships.
This is just so tedious. I would think, if you actually believed that these dictators were damaging the brand (so to speak) you'd hate them more than I do. After all, I'm just a capitalist jerk. I don't claim to be a Marxist. They're making you Marxists look bad. Instead, you attack the US for Cambodia... and not the leader and his followers who butchered over a quarter of the population. You claim Cuba (a dictatorship) is democratic. You excuse Lenin's institution of totalitarianism. You excuse the Chinese communists and shrug off the tens of millions they murdered with "yes, China's political structure is flawed."
Come on. Just stop. I think the first time I see Marxists really lay into these dictatorships I might be impressed. It hasn't happened yet, and this is just more evidence of my belief that Marxism is inherently totalitarian.
There's this biography in Amazon. The author, Roderick Barman, is a professor in the University of British Columbia and specialized in Brazilian History.
I agree to some extent he can be kind of an asshole but I wouldn't have wanted to be a great starting point to Che's beliefs!](http://www.amazon.com/The-Motorcycle-Diaries-American-Journey/dp/1876175702).
El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin
https://www.amazon.com/El-Sicario-Autobiography-Mexican-Assassin-ebook/dp/B004X2UEKC
Havana Nocturne is a great book about Meyer Lansky. Highly recommended, if you haven't read it.
It's a little before those events, but as far as leading up them, I loved Havana Nocturne : How the Mob Owned Cuba and then Lost it to the Revolution by T.J. English.
I didn't know a lot about Cuba before reading it, but came away much more informed - and it was very exciting book.
Recomendacion de los libros de la Vida de Hernan Cortes: La Espada y La Pluma, del Dr. Frances Christian Duverger, asi como otros que hablan de la conquista y descubrimiento de america.
Otro buen autor es Juan Miguel Zunzunegui, entre sus mas recientes libros esta el de El mito de las tres transformaciones, o Masiosare, un extraño enemigo.
He did some good things in his life, I won't lie. Early on he seemed to be a kind and caring individual, as well as being very intelligent. On his motorcycle journeys he witnessed things that later led him to fight for a "revolution", and his heart was initially in the right place, feeling sympathetic to people he'd seen being crushed or oppressed, however his judgment of what caused much of this suffering, and his response to it, was misguided and based largely on ignorance. And rather quickly his actions picked up momentum and his focus and intentions became egotistical, self centered, violent, and merciless. It was no longer about helping the oppressed, but about oppressing and controlling.
There are actually a lot of books out there about who Che Guevara really was, that pick through all the Hollywood lies and glamorization, and expose him for his true brutal self. Interestingly and tellingly, many of these books and accounts are written by Cubans. He is widely despised all across Latin America, and for good reason. It's mostly only in America, in the land of ignorant, suburban white folks with little understanding of hardship but a great hard on for misrepresented countercultural icons, that he is idolized. The ironic thing is that every person who has ever worn a Che Guevara shirt, a standard, naive, counter-cultural fellow with remotely idealistic views or desire for freedom in any form - these people would have been the kind of people Che rounded up and had murdered. These people were the enemy to Che and his revolution. Che systematically crushed all dissent, murdering anyone challenging the law or his power, or wanting anything resembling freedom.
Here are some books to look for: http://www.amazon.com/Exposing-Real-Che-Guevara-Idolize/dp/1595230270
http://www.amazon.com/Guevara-Liberty-Independent-Studies-Political/dp/1598130056/ref=pd_sim_b_5
one of many good articles.. .
http://www.slate.com/id/2107100/
Any book by Mary Roach- her books are hilarious, random, and informative. I like Jon Krakauer's, Sarah Vowell's, and Bill Bryson's books as well.
Some of my favorites that I can think of offhand (as another poster mentioned, I loved Devil in the White City)
No Picnic on Mount Kenya
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Collapse
The Closing of the Western Mind
What is the What
A Long Way Gone
Alliance of Enemies
The Lucifer Effect
The World Without Us
What the Dog Saw
The God Delusion (you'd probably enjoy Richard Dawkins' other books as well if you like science)
One Down, One Dead
Lust for Life
Lost in Shangri-La
Endurance
True Story
Havana Nocturne
Che held free clinics for rural farmers in Cuba even while they were fighting the Cuban army. Free immunizations, checkups etc...the majority of rural farmers in Cuba were black. I assume you are a product of the American school system so all you know is what the state department tells you. Read a few books....http://www.amazon.ca/Che-Guevara-A-Revolutionary-Life/dp/080214411X...http://www.amazon.ca/The-Motorcycle-Diaries-American-Journey/dp/1876175702...http://www.amazon.ca/Our-America-Theirs-Alliance-Progress/dp/1876175818. These are just the start of what got me reading about this man.
Yeah.
https://www.amazon.com/El-Sicario-Autobiography-Mexican-Assassin/dp/1568586582
> cuba didn't have gulags or a four pests campaign. burkino faso didn't have gulags or a four pests campaign. yugoslavia didn't have gulags or a four pests campaign.
Yes they did
>the black panthers, the IWW, the socialist party didn't advocate gulags or the killing of crows.
As I already said, that they didn't advocate it is irrelevant, they produced them every time they got power, without exception.
>churchill deliberately starved upwards of 30 million people in bengal.
No, that would be the japanese army that starved those people, when they invaded burma and stole all the rice that used to be shipped to bengal.
> the belgian kongo, a private venture, killed nearly 8 million in cold blood. even with just these two, then, we're up to a minimum of 38 million direct murders. pick up the slack, stalin!
the bengal famine killed about 2 million people, not 30. bengal only had about 60 million people living in it, and hte death rate wasn't 50%. But why let math and facts get in the way of your moral superiority, right?
>how many peoples' life expectancies are drastically lowered because of capitalism not funding things like cures for malaria,
And the goal posts shift again! Now it's capitalism being faulted not just for failing to distribute what does exist, but failing to invent new things that don't! Alright, let's play that game then. Capitalists have not cured malaria yet, it's true. Did the socialists? No? well then they're both equal on that front. Of course, capitalism did cure small pox, and hopefully soon, polio. What diseases did great Stalin cure?
>inadequate healthcare, workers' rights violations, and general outright murder?
Given that the capitalist countries invariably have the highest standard of living, and LE, in the world, I'm going to have to go with none here.
>we have this problem in the united states, too, it's called getting murdered by cops - and here, you don't have the luxury of surviving their beatings.
The innumeracy is staggering. a few hundred people are killed by cops in the united states every year. Stalin had that many people executed every single day, for years, for made up crimes. But sure, those are totally the same problem.
>the ECP, which was made up by idiot reactionary libertarians anyway,
Did you mean to say nobel prize winning economists? Because that's the correct description. Or are we rejecting science? Because I'm pretty sure you said that this was all scientific, are you some some sort of science denier now?
>means that a central body cannot accurately gauge what people want or need. i'm not arguing for that, i'm arguing that we should use objective reasoning to figure out how much food each community needs, based on a combination of outside and inside study, to feed everyone and still have a surplus left over.
let me get this straight. You don't want a central body that to gauge want people want or need. Instead, you want "we" to use objective reasoning, to gauge how much food everyone needs based on study, then give them that much food? Do you listen to what you write? that's exactly the same thing!
>please, though, tell me about how awesome capitalism is, because wasting a third of the entire world's food supply, literally throwing perfectly edible food into landfills, while hundreds of millions starve in poverty.
You seriously want to claim that when it comes to feeding people, socialism beats capitalism? Because of all possible arguments that could be made to defend socialism, that has to be the worst one possible. No system in history has ever produced more starvation than socialism. And their did it one of two ways, either they used "objective reasoning" to work out how much food each person needed, and then got it wrong, or they deliberately murdered tens of millions of people . either way, it's a terrible idea.
>but you already said china was experiencing a famine brought about by shifting social and economic conditions at the same time, which means the great leap forward didn't cause this, the famine did. changing the mode of resource allocation doesn't mean the resources previously accumulated by capitalism suddenly blink out of existence.
No I didn't and no they weren't. Famines, of course, happen in all pre-industrial societies from time to time, but not famines that kill tens of millions. Those famines were the deliberate result of government policy, forcing the peasants to work in inefficient ways then confiscating at gunpoint any grain they produced up to their "objective" quotas.
>sorry, genocide, murder, chemical and nuclear warfare, eugenics, slavery, feudalism, fascism, colonialism, imperialism, and rape, you guys are through!
Except for feudalism, economic central planning led to every single one of those things, on the largest scale in human history.
>it turns out the actual worst idea ever is just an economic planning model that doesn't work very well but still functions. man, and here i was lamenting the nazis! if only i knew that central planning was worse than starting world war 2.
ww2 killed 50 million people. the communists killed 100. So at a minimum, economic central planning is twice as bad as starting ww2.
I haven't actually read this, but I heard an awesome interview on NPR and bought it for my girlfriend.
Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution. Apparently JFK had a threesome while couple mobsters watched from behind a one-way mirror and wished they had a video camera.
http://www.amazon.com/Havana-Nocturne-Owned-Cuba-Revolution/dp/0061712744/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314150942&sr=8-1
Alive.
(Okay, bad joke!)
Machu Picchu is an excellent choice. Read Turn Right at Machu Picchu before you go.
This should be mandatory freshman year reading in college: http://www.amazon.com/Exposing-Real-Che-Guevara-Idolize/dp/1595230270
A historical document worth reading is The Bolivian Diary, written by Che during his final revolutionary campaign in Bolivia before he and his small band of comrades were tracked down and caught by the Bolivian Army and he was summarily executed and buried in a secret grave by the US CIA.
If you can read Spanish, read the original Spanish version. Some parts of the pages of the diary got smudged with sweat and rain and blood, and different interpretations of some of those passages have been published, even in Spanish, but more so in English versions.
Just finished Motorcycle diaries, 4/5*
Currently reading Japanese Death Poems and Maze Runner.
This might sound weird, but Che Guevara is a good example of this. Check out The Motorcycle Diaries to see him as a medical student on a road trip through South America with his buddy and then follow it up with Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolution to see him as a young guerilla during the Cuban Revolution, and finally check out The Bolivian Diary which chronicles his 1966-67 guerilla campaign in Bolivia which ultimately ended with his capture and death.
Well, this is certainly good news. Still hoping to score a job soon so I can actually buy these things instead of downloading them. Annoys me to no end when I have to choose 1 or 2 things per month to buy from 'to buy' list of thousands of things.
Hey, theres a book about it: http://www.amazon.com/El-Sicario-Autobiography-Mexican-Assassin/dp/1568586582/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1368955286&sr=8-2&keywords=El+Sicario%2C+Room+164
Probably/hopefully its just the monolugue with little introduction text. Too bad its only paperback.
Well, the classic would be Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. Beyond that, I suppose you could also check out Our Word Is Our Weapon and The Zapatista Reader. I've linked to Amazon simply for the summaries; you should be able to get both from any university or large public library exchange. The EZLN aren't anarchists per se, but they're close enough as to make no difference in my view.
There is also History of the Makhnovist Movement (1918–1921), by Peter Arshinov, that's definitely worth a read.
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I don't know how accurate it is (it seems like every book written about him has people that will say it's false) but Companero was a good biography, IMO. You could also read his own work, like Guerrilla Warfare and On Global Justice, etc. to get a sense of how he might have thought.
Havana Nocturne https://www.amazon.com/Havana-Nocturne-Owned-Cuba-Revolution/dp/0061712744
I suggest reading one of his biographies.
Regardless of if you believe he was a brutal leader or a compassionate idealist I think everyone can agree he was a huge agent of change in Latin America and the world.
Also, The Motorcycle Diaries was an amazing movie. Last time I almost cried in the theatres (when he swims across the river to stay with the lepers).
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/59cc0d9ee4b0b99ee4a9ca1e
Just putting this out there for the left wing morons who don't get it:
>Che Guevara also helped establish the first Cuban concentration camp in Guanahacabibes in 1960. This camp was the first of many. From the Nazis, the Cuban government also adapted from the Nazis the motto at Auschwitz “Work sets you free” changing it to “Work will make you men.” According to Álvaro Vargas Llosa, homosexuals, Jehova’s Witnesses, Afro-Cuban priests, and others who were believed to have committed a crime against revolutionary morals, were forced to work in these camps to correct their “anti-social behavior.” Many of them died; others were tortured or raped.
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>Guevara exposed also racist views. In his diary, he referred to black people as “those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing.” He also thought white Europeans were superior to people of African descent, and described Mexicans as “a band of illiterate Indians.”
Charming fellow.
Like I said keep reading. If you want expand your library: https://www.amazon.com/Exposing-Real-Che-Guevara-Idolize/dp/1595230270/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-7624290-2170554?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185486017&sr=8-1
https://www.amazon.com/Guevara-Liberty-Independent-Studies-Political/dp/1598130056
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1535
Sobre las atrocidades del periodo:
Libros completisimos:
Sobre la recuperacion de la verdad y juicios no se si haya mucho porque la justicia y verdad fue ( en palabras del ex presidente Aylwin: "En la medida de lo posible" )
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Citizen Emperor by Roderick Barman. It's a comprehensive biography on Brazil's last ruler, Pedro II, who was crowned emperor at the age of 14 when his father abdicated. He improved Brazil's standing impressively by ending slavery and modernizing the country, as well as being able to overcome a health issues wrought by his Habsburg heritage. A good read.
http://www.amazon.com/Citizen-Emperor-Making-Brazil-1825-1891/dp/0804744009
Reading this is mandatory. If you don't read this, you don't know anymore than the people who wear him on t-shirts do.
http://www.amazon.com/Exposing-Real-Che-Guevara-Idolize/dp/1595230270
Che himself, murdered around 10-30 people, with one of them being an alleged 12-14 year old boy as claimed by a person who "claimed" to be there, which isn't that reliable of source for him personally shoting the young boy, however, there are plenty of sources for all the other murders. http://www.amazon.com/Che-Guevara-A-Revolutionary-Life/dp/B004H8GMEY is an 800 page biography about Che and it distinctly references some of the murders personally comitted by Che in there. Other than that, by order of execution, Che's men murdered hundreds of people, you can find many sources about that around too, I would, but I'm on a phone currently so you'll have to dig further. In addition to shooting alleged civilians, Che also shot men among his own ranks if they tried to leave in addtion to other acts he found intolerable. I would have to dig up the sources used in my Latin America Tradition/History course I took a while back to provide you with more information.
There are 450,000 results in google for '"Che Guevara" torture':
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Either Che Guevara torturing people is the single biggest fallacy propagated in all of history, or there is some fire around that smoke.
And while I haven't read them, there are entire books out there that are supposedly chock full of first hand accounts and deep research exposing Che for who he really is.
Example 1
Example 2
Have you simply ignored these books? Or do you have reason to believe that you have not only "out-researched" the authors, but that the authors are actually making things up?
If you need a good book to read I would recommend this one: http://www.amazon.com/Exposing-Real-Che-Guevara-Idolize/dp/1595230270