January 22, 2005
Che Guevara Emblem of Hemispheric Terrorism
Che Guevara is more than just a sleazy tee shirt on an aging leftwinger's food-dribbled chest. Che Guevara is a live emblem of hemispheric terror, kidnapping and murder. And not just in the 1960s but happening right now. Today! The news, still in only Spanish, has just come out this afternoon.
Colombia's government just released a tape proving, without a shadow of a doubt, that filthy Marxist narcoterrorist FARC and ELN guerrillas are operating a string of working terrorist camps inside Venezuela. And not just inside Venezuela in the way we thought they were, as Hugo Chavez-hosted recreational guerrilla spas, but as centers for planning real terror attacks all over our hemisphere. These are bin-Laden-style terrorist training camps! Condoned by Marxist dictator Hugo Chavez himself, a true state sponsor of terror. Can you believe this? If not, here is the Colombian radio tape of the guerrillas in action! And here is a Venezuelan government Web site that disingenously asks: 'Who says FARC guerrillas are terrorists?'
What again are these camps and brigades called? At least one of them, containing 50 thugs, is called the Che Guevara Commission. Isn't that special?
Che Guevara.
What do you suppose this Che Guevara Commission does? Does it specialize in landmining Colombian schoolyards, so that little kids dare not go to school and instead grow up illiterate? Or does it put the necklace bombs around Colombian housewives and old men, laughing into the ether as these torture devices go off, taking them and the people trying to rescue them? Or does it specialize in kidnapping engineers and people who build jungle roads, holding them hostage for years and years, tying them to trees in the cold mountains or putting them in cages, before collecting big ransom money? Could it be the vermin who kicked off the new year of 2005, by wiping out a whole Colombian settlement, machine-gunning every man, woman, and child in the now empty, ghost-rattled village as the foggy wind blows? Was it from them that the monster who shot dead a Colombian radio show host last week for praising President Uribe emerged?
It could be all of them. They are capable of anything. After all, they are named after Che Guevara. And for this very reason. Che is the ratbag who specialized in casual murder on a wide scale, shooting dissidents here, organizing massacres there - all the while filling his pockets and living like a Ralph Lauren toff, (yeah, that's him) an upper-crust twit who had all the advantages of life, so as his 'contribution,' chose to take it away from others. A creature so foul fidel got him out of the country so he didn't have to look at him anymore (and this is saying a lot). Che Guevara was a lot like Rodrigo Granda, an aging Colombian radical-chic rich banker, who popped up one morning and decided to turn guerrilla, a true Latin American Idiot, like Che. His capture by bounty hunters paid for by the Colombian government triggered this new revelation of the camps.
Here is a NYT background article about Granda whose capture brought this news about the Che Commission to light.
This naming of this brigade after is no accident, no whimsy of the imagination, no 60s-backwash romanticism. These camps represent the essence of what Che Guevara was and sickeningly enough, still is. You can ask the guerrillas themselves and this is what they will tell you. But never mind what they 'think.'
It's what the Colombians actually know. Miguel Octavio this week translated a chilling El Tiempo of Colombia editorial about the purpose of these guerrillas now expanding their camps not just around Colombia but now into Venezuela. (Spanish original here.) It's the Che Guevara dream of spreading revolution, the same old communist conniving that eventually prompted the Bolivian peasants to say 'basta,' and give him what he deserved.
The El Tiempo editorial puts it this way:
From the (Colombian) Ministry of Interior and Justice we (Colombians) warned that the key to our relationship with (Hugo) Chavez could be found in the Sao Paulo Forum, and in the communist conspiracy that was being brewed there for the takeover of the Continent. ...
The attempt is an old one. The octogenarian muse (the Colombian editorialist means castro but to actually write it makes him sick) of comrade the President, (Chavez) has had an old appetite for Colombia. When a member of the Communist youth, (castro) came to Bogotá to sabotage the Pan-American Conference with the murder of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, he was already dominated by his geopolitical obsession. That is why he armed the FARC, the ELN, the M-19 and all of the groups of bandits that have whipped the nation with the preaching of a popular revolution. And now, in that languishing autumn that (castro's) friend Garcia Marquez predicted for him, he finds that he can revive those dreams of revolution in Colombia.
And it serves for him his purposes an ignorant charlatan (that's Hugo Chavez), who lacks any moral scruples, owner of a country lined with gold. ... he is a communist, he is “Bolivarian”, he has the weapons, the dollars, the flatterers, the cynicism and perhaps the gall to be the perfect instrument for the little Cuban Dictator.
Chavez and Castro know that there are no Dictatorships without weapons. That’s why they love the FARC and that is why they are concerned that we will end up defeating them
That is the Che-Guevara masterplan right there. In perfect historical context. It's no longer just about mauling the Colombians, as they have been doing, but now but about spreading outward. In new base camps in Chavista Venezuela, they are transforming themselves from grubby drug dealers intent on 'independence' into an extremely dangerous, remorseless extraterritorial military strike force capable of spreading terror to other countries, and forcing communist takeovers. They will do this against Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Uruguay, and possibly others. And remember, these are the foulest, most conscienceless terrorists you can find anywhere in the hemisphere. All of this ultimately is to form a hate-America bloc against the U.S., encircling us with hungry enemies.
The Colombian editorialist writes powerfully about the plans for 'revolution' and it's the truth. Che Guevara is more than a tee shirt right now, he is the inspiration and emblem for terrorism that comes ahead of communist takeovers in this hemisphere and we should be concerned.
Posted by Mora at January 22, 2005 10:58 PM
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The western world seems to me to be on a collision course with a philosophy that was never quite as conquered as the media would have had us believe. I am often ridiculed when I say that communism is not dead and that it did not die in 1989 or 1991. Communism -- and all of the other leftist idealogies including islamic fascism -- just metamorphosed into more virulent strains. As described by Mr. Mora in this scary post, it seems that the war is not even close to being won. We in the west, with our comforts and easy living, do not comprehend how close to the edge of the sword we really are. The imbeciles who place Che's face on t-shirts and the imbeciles who buy them thinking it is hip are just doing marketing work for these murderers. But they also will pay the price if these enemies of humanity are not put down and utterly defeated.
Santaya's admonition that "those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it" seems scarily appropriate for what the next decade may bring to our country. I hope we have the strength and the will necessary to do what is right.
Posted by: George L. Moneo at January 23, 2005 12:33 AM
This is very interesting, and very in-depth.
I'm not sure if I am supposed to say this or not, but my father was deployed to Colombia on Tuesday to handle things on the part of the U.S. I wonder what will happen now?
Posted by: Robert Mayer at January 23, 2005 12:52 AM
I'm not surprised. I heard Rummy was watching this really closely.
Today President Uribe made a radio address to the peoples of the Bolivarian States - the northern Andean states that used to be one country. He addressed them as a group, urging them to unite together to fight terror. There's real leadership starting to appear now. And I hear he is a speaker who can make grown men cry.
Whenever he gets on an airplane, the whole passenger section breaks into applause. Some serious charisma there.
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at January 23, 2005 02:06 AM
Yeah, Uribe is something else altogether. He is one of those men that comes to the forefront from the fray when the times call.
Posted by: Robert Mayer at January 23, 2005 02:25 PM
That's what I think. I've never seen anyone like him.
And yet, he's so recognizable.
Hero.
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at January 23, 2005 08:29 PM
Well, better put this one on the prayer list. And praise God for leaders who are willing to lead. The most terrible part of scary articles like this is that you know that there are lots more civilians suffering than what the article can show.
Mr. Robert Mayer - I hope your dad can finish his work in Colombia and come home safely. So nice to know that someone is "on it."
Posted by: FL Mom at January 24, 2005 08:57 AM
