March 31, 2007
Speaking of the Devil
So after coming home from the debate about the travel sanctions, I turned on the TV and started watching the history channel. I got up to go to my bedroom to check email and such. After a little while I got sleepy and started to drift off. I had left the TV on in the other room but was now too sleepy to go turn it off. Then I heard the word "Che". Instantly I was awake. So I run into the TV room and see that the History Channel is airing something called: The true story of Che Guevara.
It's basically, a readers digest version of the Cuban Revolution and Che's life with all the usual suspects appearing such as Che biographer, John Lee Anderson and Peter Kornbluh. Also in the program is Felix Rodriguez, the CIA agent that tracked Che down in Bolivia.
If you want to really know the the true story of Che, my bet is that Humberto Fontova's new book will be a better source than the infotainment the History Channel provides.
I know a couple of folks living in Miami Beach that I should send a copy to as a gift.
UPDATE
There's a happy ending. Che dies in the end.
Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at March 31, 2007 06:26 PM
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It should be required reading for university curriculum. Should be...but won't.
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at March 31, 2007 06:55 PM
Solo digo que el congresista J. Flake tiene el nombre muy buen puesto.
Sounds like he did not disappoint.
Posted by: Gigi at March 31, 2007 07:21 PM
...a happy ending? LOL!
Posted by: omar at March 31, 2007 07:24 PM
When the castro brothers have their "happy ending", maybe Cuba will finally get hers.
Posted by: Ziva at April 1, 2007 12:12 AM
R. Lee should use "True story of Che" DVD's for target practice on Mail Call, it was nothing but misty-eyed revolutionary claptrap.
Posted by: ac#1 at April 1, 2007 10:54 AM
I saw the "special" the special piece of crap, more like it, that they had on che on the History Channel. When I heard them say that the peasants were the ones that help castro overthrow batista I alomst threw the remote at the t.v. When are these people going to find out that it wasnt the peasant but the rich and middle class that helped castro.
Posted by: Eric at April 1, 2007 03:49 PM
I saw it too, and had to turn the thing off. The part that got me was "SOME SAY, that Ché was responsible for innocent deaths at the Cabaña," as if there was no way to prove that, or as if the source wasn't credible.
Posted by: Lori at April 2, 2007 09:06 AM
I'd rather listen to Rosie O'Donnell... at least her BS is comical.
Posted by: Claudia at April 2, 2007 03:39 PM
Yes I didn't like the program except for the happy ending.
Posted by: Tomas Estrada-Palma at April 3, 2007 10:47 PM
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