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well said indeed!

EXCELLENT!!

Carlos is just being 'CaliforniaCorrect' with his Che shirt.
Lately I've seen quite a few of them on kids who have no idea who Che was nor do they even care.
Now you take the same kid and slap a W shirt on him and the Libs would have him in a 12 step program.
Good letter, Paquito!

You know, it would be a good idea if someone did a book about Che's victims, based on interviews with victims and family members. It could be called "Don't Kill Me, I'm Che Guevara!: The True Story of a Murderer, as Told by His Victims."
If I lived in Florida I would start such a project, but I don't, so it will have to fall to someone else. Of course I could always move to Miami, but my wife, a redhead, would spontaneously combust, and I'd have to get the upholstery cleaned.

Awesome! What a great letter!

What a letter! Thank God there are still those celebrities who dare to speak the truth to the lies of the useful idiots like Carlos Santana. This is why Val's work with BabaluBlog is so important: this would never get on the MSM's airwaves.

Way to go Paquito and George, you took the words right out my mouth.

Ño, Val... Paquito has always been a jazz idol of mine... So, knowing that he is endowed with timbales in addition to mastery of the horn is just gonna make me enjoy his music at a different level... Can't wait to get home and crank up that CD player...

Living in Berkeley and going to school in SF, I see one of the iconic Che images at least once a day. One might think that this has inured me to the Che-cult stupidity that it represents. But no, I still get a buzz of anger in the back of my head whenever I see it, and I can't help but shoot a dirty look.

I've heard that Gloria Estefan goes on a pretty good anti-Castro rant when provoked. Perhaps she could arrange to meet Mr. Santana backstage, before the show, with a TV news crew to record the fireworks.

Does Santana even speak Spanish ?
I heard him once in a hispanic award show in one of the Spanish chanels (hmm ONE of them!) honoring him and his thank you speech was in English to a mostly hispanic audience.

KC - He's the real thing, he's a Tijuana Mexican. Played with Mongo Santamaria in TJ in the old days. WHICH IS PRECISELY WHY HE SHOULD KNOW BETTER! He's spent too much time with the leftwing jackasses in the hot tubs of Marin County where he now lives. He knows better!!!!

Carlos Satanas is a total idiot in both languages, both of which he speaks badly. Look at his lyrics. Full of errors in both languages. Listen to his interviews, his Spanish and his English are really bad. He is a babbling illiterate sucker, that's all he is... Another braindead leftwinger. If he doesn't like it here, he can always go back to Tijuana.

Or maybe he (Carlos Satanas) can go live in Cuba! with Maradona and the like... He would certainly love it.

Go here and buy your own Che shirt.

One last thing about Carlos Satanas:
He has used a lot of Cuban musicians all along his career, who are surely deeply offended by his choice of attire.
Let me point out that all his percusion is AfroCuban and that he has used Cuban rhythms as base for his work, no his native banda or rancheras, so he is stealing from our culture and insulting us at the same time.
Besides, when he was playing in Tijuana catering halls -I don't think he was good enough to play in a bar mitzvah or that his drunken ass would have been ever admited to a decent household- Senen Suarez (old Cubans know who he was)was playing riffs in his electric guitar that then Satanas "borrowed". The same with the work of guitarrists from the Felipe Dulzaides band and from the Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna, who afterwards went to play in the first incarnation of Irakere. He stole those riffs, Satanas himself.
As for Mexican influences, he maybe sings La Cucaracha in the shower. Or in the hottub with some libzilla choir.
Enough on that guy already!

¡TREMENDA CARTA PAQUITO!

As much as I was offened by Santana's shirt, I was comforted by the fact that he and Antonio Banderas' Oscar performance SUCKED. Wasn't it satisfying to see the two of them trying to praise Che and do it so poorly. I'm surprised that the two of them didn't go into hiding.

Heh, Carlos "Satanas." That may be making him a little too important. He's just a California stoner who floats with a tide that went out in 1969. In fact, I don't know if he knows it's not 1969 any more.

Val,

I HAVE to borrow your translation, OK?

Paquito nailed it.

Well the "latin" in Santana's music certainly did NOT come from Mejico. So at some point he must have had some serious Cuban , caribbean "influences" let's say ?
Some of these guys you just never know. Tito Puente grabbed Celia Cruz out of total anonimity when she came to the USA but I've read interviews with Tito Puentes in which he blasted the USA and favored Castro. Who the hell knows what happens in that world. I mean George Harrison DID play with Eric Clapton after Clapton banged Harrison's wife , which happenned after Harrison banged Ringo's wife .. which .. oh hell MUSICIANS!
I just find it rediculous that assholes like Santana (who I agree is barely articulate) just by virtue of his muiscal skills is supposed to be a political pundit, and Banderas, Salma Hayek ? Now, would YOU trust these people with your life's savings? In fact the part of the brain that makes you artistic has nothing to do with common reasoning (I stole that from Dennis Miller ;) )

http://www.santana.com/
Look at his website and count his Cuban musical collaborators. A lot of them. Plus what he stole from our culture. A thieve.
I agree with you, KillCastro, that guy is barely normal. Such a babbling idiot cannot be able to produce a thread of thoughs.
His music, now he sucks. All his best people went onto developing their own edeavours. Good for them, because, I can tell you, I bet my manliness that he didn't pay that great!

he use the t-shirt because the film "diario en motocicleta", not for conviction. Che represent for the youngest people of the world- who don't know anything about of cuban revolution- an icon and they are confiused about that 's mean.

excuse my english.

A couple of years ago, while on vacation at the brazilian beach city of Camboriu I met on the side-walk with a young man from Argentina, he was wearing a tee with an image of Guevara printed over a cuban flag, MY FLAG, I confronted the guy, gave him a piece of my mind and a lesson in Cuban history in front of many.
Told him he could use Che in which-ever way he wanted, but not on top of MY FLAG then I tried to tear the tee away from his chest (but police and my wife being near that proved to be too risky).

The anal orifice went away with his eyes about to pop, probably never having expected to find a cuban in Camboriu.

Perhaps Felix Rodriguez should make his picture of Guevara taken in Bolivia, just before his health was modified, available to be silk-screened on tees with a circle and a bar over it........