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Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him Kindle Edition

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A debunking of liberal myths about one of the most bloodthirsty icons of the twentieth century.

Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the mainstream media celebrate Ernesto "Che" Guevara as a saint, a sex symbol, and a selfless martyr. But their ideas about Che—whose face adorns countless T-shirts and posters—are based on the lies of Fidel Castro's murderous dictatorship.

Che's hipster fans are classic "useful idiots," the name Stalin gave to foolish Westerners who parroted his lies about communism. And their numbers only increased after a new biopic was released, starring Benicio Del Toro.

But as Humberto Fontova reveals in this myth-shattering book, Che was actually a bloodthirsty executioner, a military bumbler, a coward, and a hypocrite. In fact, Che can be called the godfather of modern terrorism.

Fontova reveals:

• How he longed to destroy New York City with nuclear missiles.
• How he persecuted gays, blacks, and religious people.
• How he loved material wealth and private luxuries, despite his image as an ascetic.

Are Che fans like Angelina Jolie, Jesse Jackson, Carlos Santana, and Johnny Depp too ignorant to realize they've been duped? Or too anti-American to care?
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Fontova gets right to the work of debunking familiar notions of Argentinan revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevera; by the end of the preface, he's pinned 14,000 executions on Guevera and credited positive portrayals to the public relations work of Castro and the laziness of biographers. The critical attack continues throughout, combining the testimonies of former revolutionaries and Cuban refugees to assemble a damning portrait of a man lauded by everyone from Jean-Paul Sartre to Jon Lee Anderson. According to Fontova, the real Che was "a revolutionary Ringo Starr" who "fell in with the right bunch and rode their coattails to world fame." Presenting a failed physician, an inept guerrilla and a hapless sycophant, Fontova adds insult to injury by claiming Che was "deathly afraid to drive a motorcycle." Fontova's charged language keeps things interesting, if occasionally dubious; midway through the book, after asserting that Che enjoyed killing dogs, Fontova concedes that, "You might put down your book here and think, this has to be propaganda." Though propaganda probably colors any consideration of this controversial figure, Fontova makes a convincing case that, in the words of one former political prisoner, "There was something seriously wrong with Che Guevera."
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Humberto Fontova, who left Cuba in 1961 at age seven, has written for several conservative magazines and is the author of Fidel: Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant. He has appeared on many radio and television shows and is active in the Cuban American community.

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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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5.0 out of 5 stars Required reading for all people who value human rights
Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2009
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For college, I have done extensive research into Cuba's history, Fidel Castro, Ernesto (Che) Guevara, the Cuban Criminal Code, and how it all relates to the largest human rights violation that only Stalin can remotely come close to. I have read many of the sources that Humberto Fontova refers to and I can attest that his book is highly researched and accurate.

This book should be required reading for all college students. It is a gripping documentary on the truth of communism, Stalinism, Marxism, and socialism and the logical place that takes you. My professors say, "take an idea and push the accelerator down on it and see where that takes you." It usually takes you into the world of unintended consequences. BEWARE the creep of socialism in the United States as it is a direct bee line to communism and major human rights violations.

This book should be required for two main reasons. First, it gives you a very good understanding of the truth behind the Cuban "revolution" and Che Guevara, which is so extensively misunderstood amongst the intelligentsia. Second, you learn where all these misconceptions came from and how Cubans gave up their rights in increments which allowed Fidel Castro to come to power.

If you are serious about understanding this topic, you must also read Armando Valladares "Against All Hope". It's another fascinating book you cannot put down. Armando does an extraordinary job of telling it like it is regarding the hearts, minds, real suffering, extensive atrocities, and human rights violations that the Castro regime has done and continues to do.

Another mandatory read book on this topic is the 1999 Human Rights Watch report called "Cuba's Repressive Machinery". You will find your mind blown by the details and analysis in this book. Hats off to researcher Sarah A. DeCosse for her work. It is truly a comprehensive work. You can find this online, but I recommend you get it in book form to mark up with notes as you read. WOW
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5.0 out of 5 stars Getting information from those persecuted
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I have for years wondered about Che Guevara. It started when I was in college. I saw his image on t shirts. Why did they have his posters on the wall? I knew a little bit. He was with Castro in Cuba. He was kinda good looking. They said he was a doctor ( medical student only it turns out) from a wealthy family in Argentina. I was suspicious of him however and wondered. Did they even know who this guy really was, did I? I already disliked Castro, who was a hypocrite, a liar and a control freak. Reading Humberto Fontiva book was not surprising. I suspected Che was similar , and he was. All men, ok people, men or women, who become dictators are the same, whether in the name the nazi or communist parties, fascists, or drug lords. They have a compulsion to control other people lives or kill them if them if they don’t do what they are told. These essentially what Che did. Why? Because made himself a god and he felt like it. These people are the ultimate bullies. They are a miserable lot. As I finished reading Fontova’s book, in the last few pages he restates how and why his book was based the evidence of those who were personally persecuted and were the families and friends of victims who were murdered and tortured by Che Guevara. They were first hand witnesses who suffered and knew Che and his crazy philosophy. Who better to get the truth from? You wouldn’t think that this needs to be clarified, but does. The truth certainly wouldn’t come from Castro and the Cuban Communist Party who have a grand motive to present Che as a hero. With that being said, it looks like this is the exact source of where this irrational hero worship of Che is coming from! No surprise there. Fontova makes the comparison that it was people like Elie Wiesel and Anne Frank who would provide the truth about Hitler atrocities, not Nazi collaborators and Hitler henchmen. It was the people who witnessed, first hand, Che Guevara’s brutality and insanity who are the true authors of this book. I’ll never look at the Che image the same again and most likely will get into argument if I see another one of those stupid t shirts! Thanks Mr Fontova for exposing the real Che Guevara. This book has also has put me on the path of reading and investigating further what really took place in Cuba during those years. Thank you.
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Florian
5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2023
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Incredibly insightful, even though it's not necessarily an author's oeuvre, it's a book that covers into more details what Guevara and the regime have actually done to their people.
It contains a lot of sourced interviews and real accounts from people who have experienced the horrors first hand. You can tell the author wrote it with some anger, and at times he sort of "yells" at people who still in our day and age praise the che and wear his face, and it's smile worthy.
Overall it's a good read that will definitely make you tear up in horror and shock.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent effort at exposing Ernesto
Reviewed in Australia on November 1, 2022
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I can say with some pride that I have always been a mean, conservative extremist, so I never wore a Che T-shirt. Just knowing that he was a collectivist tyrant and a mass murderer (but I repeat myself) was enough to file him away as "contemptible" and forget about it. But this book really hammers home just how despicable he was. It's an indictment so scathing that to get the opposing viewpoint, I read Jorge Castaneda's hagiographical 'Companero' - which I found to be full of mealy-mouthed excuses, omissions, and glossings-over of unpleasant truths, and which did not change my view of Guevara even a little.

First, here are some verified, well-documented quotes from Guevara himself:

- "Individualism must disappear!"

- "I am the most important thing in the world..." (I suppose the irony escaped him.)

- "Certainly, we execute! And we will continue executing as long as it is necessary!"

- "We don't need proof. We manufacture the proof."

- "Besides, to execute a man we don't need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him. It's that simple."

- "I'd like to confess, Papa, at that moment I discovered that I really like killing."

- "The happiest days of a youth's life is when he watches his bullets reaching an enemy."

- "The people's cooperation can often be coaxed by the use of systemic terror."

Second, he was massively, staggeringly, buffoonishly incompetent.

Che went on a trek, saying 'We'll be back next week.' ... "Not two miles from the camp, Che's outfit lost its bearings.... Forty-eight days later, [he and those of his party still alive] stumbled back to the main campsite.... Che, the author of the century's best-selling guerrilla guidebook, had gone into the jungle having learned the wrong local language and apparently lacking the ability to correlate a compass to a map."

"In 1958, the Cuban peso was historically equal to the U.S. dollar.... Within months of Che's appointment, the Cuban peso was practically worthless.... Within a year, a nation that previously had higher per capita income than Austria, Japan, and Spain, a huge influx of immigrants, and the third-highest protein consumption in the Western Hemisphere was rationing food, closing factories, and hemorrhaging hundreds of thousands of its most productive citizens from every sector of its society."

Che sent his henchmen to the US to abduct an escapee and bring him back. The henchmen were overjoyed - because once in the US, they had no plans to come back - and they didn't. Think about it. Castro and Che's Cuba: a regime so terrible that even the head honcho's henchmen want to escape.

In all his years of campaigning, he was unable to recruit one single peasant into his guerrilla ranks:

"One of the longest and bloodiest guerrilla wars in the Western Hemisphere was fought not by Fidel and Che, but against Fidel and Che - and by landless peasants. Farm collectivization was no more voluntary in Cuba than in the Ukraine. And Cuba's Kulaks had guns, a few at first, anyway, until the Kennedy-Khrushchev deal cut off potential supplies."

Third, he was a mass murderer. He sentenced thousands of people to execution, murdering quite a few of them himself. He openly admitted shooting people on the spur of the moment, without any kind of trial. Not that the trials had any validity whatsoever. This book quotes an organization of exiled Cuban newsmen as putting the number of executions by 1966 at close to eight thousand. Some of the victims were as young as fourteen.

Castaneda's 'Companero' quotes Castro himself as saying that there were 550 executions between 1959 and 1960. Oddly enough, Castaneda does not go on to quote numbers for the following years. And right after mentioning the 550 executions in one year, he has the audacity to claim "there was no bloodbath... it is surprising that there were so few abuses and executions."

Fourth, he was a hypocrite.

As a young man, he wanted to go to Venezuela and then the US because those were "the best places to make money." One week after entering Havana, he commandeered the most luxurious house in Cuba. When called out on this, he claimed it was for his "health."

When captured, this champion of the poor was wearing a Rolex. While his guerrillas carried nothing but weapons, Che carried scissors, a comb, a brush, and a mirror. That iconic photo of him which still adorns many a leftist's clothing today was carefully posed - like many others.

Fifth, he was a coward.

Castaneda claims that "[Che] was ready to give his life for his ideals." This does not square with the account given by people who were there at his capture. After ordering his men to "give no quarter, to fight to their last breath and last bullet," Che "snuck away from the firefight and surrendered with a full clip in his pistol while whimpering to his captors: 'Don't shoot! I'm Che, I'm worth more to you alive than dead!'"

Overall, Fontova's book gives an in-depth insight not just into Guevara, but also into his admirers, which include not just ignorant hippies and idiot celebrities, but highly regarded journalists, authors, and philosophers. Some might say they're just ignorant, but when the facts are so easily and widely available, a claim of ignorance is highly suspect.

If you're like me and like to inflict the mean and nasty things called "facts" on leftists, this book is a great addition to your arsenal.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Truth About Che Guevara. Highly Recommended. Must Read.
Reviewed in India on December 1, 2016
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One of the best books I have ever read about politically motivated psychopathic communist war criminal & killer that nobody in the world dares to unearth this fact. Thank you Humberto Fontova!
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Ovidio Gentiloni
5.0 out of 5 stars Da far leggere in tutte le scuole
Reviewed in Italy on November 24, 2014
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Il fichetto della rivoluzione cubana messo a nudo.
Tutti fatti storici, che permettono di comprendere come "l'eroe" popolare fosse un cretino, vile e criminale.
Ma, essendo dalla parte giusta.........
Esistono montagne di libri e pubblicazioni apologetici su questo tanghero, finalmente si può leggere anche l'altra campana.
E' tutto esposto in maniera molto netta, direi estrema, ma sono fatti, quindi difficili da negare.
Se poi si vuole interpretarli a piacere (o nasconderli, come s'è quasi sempre fatto).....
Basti pensare alla tentata invasione anticastrista della Baia dei Porci.
Il "nostro" s'è sparato da solo in faccia a km da dove si combatteva, eppure l'hanno fatto passare per eroe.
Dà da pensare!
E' anche molto interessante il capitolo dedicato al sistema ideato per procurarsi il sostegno acritico e incondizionato di attori, musicisti, scrittori........
Microspie nelle camere d'albergo e poi, una volta beccati i dementi con prostitute, con bambini, con droga, si passava all'incasso "mediatico".
Anche questo dà da pensare!!!
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dave adam
5.0 out of 5 stars Castro's Would Be Hero
Reviewed in Canada on April 21, 2013
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The world needs to know the real story of this coward and murdering psychopath who is currently venerated as some kind of hero. Shame on those celebrities ( useful idiots ) who adorn themselves with his pathetic face. They need to spend some time with the relatives of those who suffered brutally and others who continue to do so to this day. ( see Yoani Sanchez Havanna Real )
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