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

Nearly four decades after his death, it’s impossible to avoid the image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara everywhere from T-shirts to cartoons. Liberals consider Che a revolutionary martyr who gave his life to help the poor of Latin America. Time named him one of the one hundred most influential people of the last century. And a major Hollywood movie is about to lionize him to a new generation.

The reality, as we learn from Cuban exile Humberto Fontova, is that Che wasn’t really a gentle soul and a selfless hero. He was a violent Communist who thought nothing of firing a gun into the stomach of a woman six months pregnant whose only crime was that her family opposed him. And he was a hypocrite who lusted after material luxuries while cultivating his image as a man of the people.

Fontova reveals that Che openly talked about his desire to use nuclear weapons against New York City. Such was Che’s bloodthirsty hatred that Fontova considers him the godfather of modern terrorism.

Exposing the Real Che Guevara is based on scores of interviews with survivors of Che’s atrocities as well as the American CIA agent who interrogated Che just hours before the Bolivian government executed him.

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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Not one proven truth in the whole book, and that's fact, 2008-11-24
Absolute ring wing horse sh**e, that the Americans with their limited education system will lap up.
America on the other hand has attempted to overthrow or had some part in overthrowing 50 foreign governments since the end of the 2nd world war, and most of them were democratically elected but refusing to tow the line and hand over the bulk of their assets to the mighty U.S.A, that's fact but they don't teach that in American schools.
Over 30 Countries have been bombed, including in 1973 neutral Cambodia that was rich and prosperous until Nixon and Kissinger decided to secretly bomb it bigtime. It went from a Country of modern cities back to the stone age with the equivalent bomb usage of FIVE Hiroshimas. I'll repeat "IT WAS A NEUTRAL COUNTRY".
Nixon called it the madman theory of war, how apt.
I've been to the U.S and the education system is lacking and a complete embarrassment, so if you want the truth to set you free watch the dvd's from the brilliant English journalist John Pilger.
Oh i forgot you can't get them in the U.S, well i guess that's democracy for you.


2 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

Poorly constructed argument, 2008-09-26
The author simply fails to make his case. As i read this in a bookstore i couldnt help but feel that i was reading the Warren Report or a neocon apology from the Bush administration. Was Che Guevara without flaws? Hardly.
But is he the figure this book tries to make him? Not in my opinion. The Jon Lee Anderson bio remains for me the most scrupulosly researched and even keeled exploration. This is crap.


2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Let's face the thruth, 2008-09-17
Dear friends, Che Guevara lives on two main levels: the first is the exuberant Christlike figure that makes work of his youthful idealism, steps up in defense of the oppressed masses of South America (it is interesting to understand the identity of the oppressor...) and rides the wawe of the world's social emancipation of the '60ties; the second one shows us a man like you and me, with it's shortcomings and naivety that propels himself to the ranks of power and cannot therefore be unstained and saintly. He became a soldier and a commander and a government official during a (cold) war. We all know what this mean.
In spite of the fact that this book for some reason can be found on almost every page of Amazon - I cannot say the same of the great biography by Ignacio Taibo which instead was 'hidden' in the very last pages - and therefore reeked of propaganda, I must say that the book seems to be the fruit of a genuine research and it should certainly not be ignored when seeking an objective perspective on the figure of Che Guevara. It is evident that the author has an understandable personal grudge with the Cuban regime - a grudge for which he earns my condolences and compassion however, I believe that in a future revision of this work, limiting himself to the mere facts would be sufficient to illustrate his point of view and would prove even more effective in describing the dark side of the Cuban revolution and putting forward the idea that the idolization of Che Guevara needs to be reconsidered.
I would recommend this book to all that wish to fine-tune their view of that particular historic period. The book also contains an interesting bibliography for further research.
After reading this book I cannot but agree that the myth of Che Guevara needs to be looked upon critically and somehow a veil has been lifted.
I would also recommend the book by Carotta 'Was Jesus Caesar?'in order to gain a new understanding of how a person can become the icon of an ideology and end up portraying a set of universal values in spite of their flawed human conduct.Jesus Was Caesar: On the Julian Origin of Christianity: An Investigative Report Guevara, Also Known as Che


3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Great Book,Actually Truthful and Not Some Bias,Bubbling Book about A Murderer., 2008-07-26
As a Child of Exiles, I read and had the pleasure of meeting the author, Very Informative book, I did not need to read it to know that this book says what Us "Crazy Cubans In Miami" as were called ,Always have thought about this scumbag. The book dares to Confront the truth, a ugly one not liked by "so-called scholars" and way-left loonies, First, That he was A blood thirsty killer, who sent not just So-Called Batista's Men but Apolitical people who were caught up. Ordered many executions(see The lost city, Read Spanish Book: El Che Mito o Realidad By Enrique Ros,Or See Documentary of same name.)Yet Foolish Idiots like Santana, Rich Suburban College kids who have never stepped foot in communist torned cuba. That the so-called liberator was a mere follower, Was a Spoiled kid and yes even liked the so-called ills of capitalism!.That he was a Psychopath with deep rooted problems(He shot a Dog for no reason), Was a Coward(Never fought on the front lines and did not know military strategy) Never got his "Degree". So The Doctor Was not a Accredited one.and Was a Failure at all he touched included the Monetary system in cuba. Often you will hear idiots say But before the "Revolution" Cuba was a third world country". Was not, not until after Castro and INC. came on the scene.Cuba was one of the most advanced countries in the world right along the united states, sometimes ahead of the U.s.! We had the 1940 constitution, of course batista was a bad leader, but the situation was not as severe as described by "Historians", and NO the Mob as popular myth has it did not run cuba as its own as much one would say the mob ran the U.s. Many things are exposed here.Again, If your A blind leftist this book is not for you. if your apolitical or conservative. you must read. everyone should read a book that does not depend on sources(Straight from the cuban regime!)and from a critical point.


5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

Che and Anderson Exposed!, 2008-07-19
If Humberto Fontova's book were not so disturbing, I would call it a page-turner. And in as much as it grips you from the first sentence, it is still difficult to read of the first-hand accounts of such brutalities which, sadly, fill this book from beginning to end. Unlike Jon Lee Anderson's disgraceful and idolizing tribute to the bumbling, blood-thirsty butcher of La Cabana, constructed upon interviews with present-day communists still ruling in Cuba (Anderson wrote his book while living in Cuba), Fontova instead reaches out to the families and victims themselves to tell the story of the coward and mass murderer, Che Guevara. In fact, one of the great joys in reading this book was the masterful deconstruction of credibility he wields against leftist Che biographers like Anderson and Jorge Casteneda. Fontova eerily transports you to the blood-spattered execution wall where thousands of innocent Cubans were murdered as Guevara gazed down from his office window while dining -- a favorite pastime for Che. He takes you to the filthy dungeons where prisoners awaited their turn at any moment, day or night, to be dragged to the stake and shot. He also takes you to the dank, repulsive rooms where prisoners had almost two pints of blood drawn from their bodies moments before execution. This blood was, in turn, sold to North Vietnam as an export item for profit. In short, Humberto Fontova vividly brings the horrific world of Castro and Guevara's "revolucion" into your living room.

Fontova's book finally reveals Che T-shirt-wearing dolts like Johnny Depp, Carlos Santana as well as every other useful idiot stupid enough to don them as they fools they truly are.

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