Word: che
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cult of Revolution. Evergreen's politics is as far out as its sex. It subscribes to the New Left roster of revolutionary heroes: Che Guevara, Castro, Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, Stokely Carmichael. It has published LeRoi Jones's furious diatribes against whites, mainly Jewish: "The little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the Arab's head." While not taking it too seriously, Rosset excuses black anti-Semitism on the grounds that Jewish merchants, after all, have exploited Negroes in the ghetto. "We agree with practically everything LeRoi says," explains Rosset, "except that...
Schoenman is no romantic. He dismisses those who have "romanticized" Che Guevara by emphasizing personal bravado, "at the expense of his vision." Che's vision--which Schoenman shares--is that of the continuing revolution. He quotes Che: "The struggle for the Cuban Revolution is the struggle for the extension of the Revolution in Latin American." Schoenman pauses, and then continues, "Elan is only a thing which can mobilize the people...
Suitable Heroism. The diary business out of the way, Michéle concentrated on the mystique of Che's death. She came across a young Bolivian journalist named Jorge Torrico, who offered her information if she would help him get to France, where, he said, he wanted to study. Michéle agreed. With Torrico's help, she re-created the events leading up to Che's execution in La Higuera. Those who supervised the murder, she asserts, were two CIA operatives named Ramos and Gonzales...
...makes gripping reading, but it was apparently too much of a fairy tale for New York Times Correspondent Juan de Onis, who claimed there was no evidence linking the CIA to Che's death. It was a fact, reported De Onis, that Che talked freely to a CIA agent shortly before he died. But when Che was finally gunned down by a Bolivian sergeant, the CIA man had gone...
...lately have acquired another folk hero: in Brazil, priests have offered prayers for the soul of "our departed brother," Che Guevara, who was never a practicing Catholic...