The most important effort that needs to be done is to get rid of the uncomfortable 'Yankee-friend'.
-- Che Guevara
I had to try out blogging for myself to understand the medium. -- Grant Amaral
Very few people know that the fall of Cuba and ultimately the Cuban Missile crisis can be blamed on Che's poor choice of Motorcycles. Had Ernesto Guevara, Che, chosen a Harley, Ernest Hemingway might still be alive and living in Havana.
It seems the Motorcycle Diaries should be called the Chicken Bus Diaries. Che made a few mistakes in his life: Boliva, The Congo, forcing Soviet-style planning on Fidel, bringing nuclear warheads to Cuba and most importantly choosing a Norton 500 to travel across South America! The Poms might be known for boiled cabbage, but building motorcycles is not one of their strong points.
So Che made it only as far as Santiago before La Poderosa sputtered into El Fracaso and Che took the wrong fork in the road leaving the open road to his right and veering to the left and the Chicken Bus Co-op -- destination -- Havana. The eye opening reality of South America transport -- cramped cabins, stinky fellow travelers, worn seats, bad roads and not even a chicken in every other bus must have been a sobering experience indeed.
It doesn't take an experienced motorcycle rider to see into Ernesto's future: The Norton breaks down forcing Ernesto to take public transport. Ernesto gets on the bus an aristocratic Argentinian and gets off a Marxist rebel named Che.
The Motorcycle Atrocities: After the Revolution, Fidel Castro, introduced La Ley de la Sierra into the liberated territories of Cuba.
To implement La Ley, Castro named Guevara commander of the La Cabaña Fortress prison from January 2 through June 12, 1959. Guevara was charged with exacting "revolutionary justice" against those considered to be traitors or war criminals.
As commander of La Cabaña, Guevara reviewed the appeals of those convicted during the revolutionary tribunal process. The usual penalty delivered by the tribunal was death by firing squad.
The exact numbers differ, it is estimated that several hundred people to several thousand were executed during this time.
According to Che:
Dismissing the objections of a colleague who understood the importance of trials and proof:
Go ahead and try them tomorrow morning — but execute them NOW!
Instructing his Revolutionary Tribunals:
We don’t need proof to execute a man. We only need proof that it’s necessary to execute him. A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate.
From a letter to his father:
I’d like to confess, papa, at that moment I discovered that I really like killing.
Summing up socialism, after describing how he shot some poor helpless man in the head at point-blank range:
He went into convulsions for a while and was finally still. Now his belongings were mine.
To a 14-year-old boy, just before he personally killed the boy for trying to defend his father, who was also executed:
I said: KNEEL DOWN!
(The boy wouldn’t kneel and had to be killed standing up.)
Communism for the Masses–Capitalism for the Che and Fidel
Is that a Rolex or just the spoils of Socialism
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No it's just a DR 650!
through SLC and on to the uranium boom-town of Moab Ut. Now all plastic and shinny. Oh but still a superfund site. Why is there no sign on this giant pile of uranium tailings?
A slow start and across texas, there is a lot of texas, to McAllen Tx. a few roadblocks checking for illegals. Mostly open road and no traffic. We stopped in for a visit at langtry texas. Law west of the pecos.
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