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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 16:33:59 -0400
From: hariette-AT-easynet.co.uk (Hariette Spierings)
Subject: M-G: VULGAR POLITICAL TRAFFICKING WITH THE IMAGE OF CHE GUEVARA


In the Peruvian list - Tumi-AT-kern.com - a vulgar pro-Castro trafficking with
Che Guevara's memory is currently being displayed. It is evident that the
Habana regime is now involved in a propaganda offensive geared to cover up
their capitulation to imperialism and their support to the pro-imperialist
regimes such as Fujimori, Gaviria, etc. in a blanket of incense being burned
in industrial quantities to the heroic figure of Che Guevara. But contrary
to their intentions, the very words of Guevara constitute an indictment of
the current Castro regime, its political line and its subservience to
imperialism.

I think it would be instructive to relay some of the comments we have made
to underline in the consciousness of people how dishonest and indeed
incongruent is all this hullabaloo of Cuban revisionism, when confronted
directly with the very ideas and principles that inspired Guevara's life and
exemplary revolutionary struggle.

Because over any theoretical discrepancy, over any difference in ideology,
we do recognise in Guevara a revolutionary, an enemy of capitulation and
conciliation with imperialism. 



>From documents from the Cuban press published in the Tumi list:

>                         (Part 1)
>
>Letter to his children:
>
>You should always be capable of feeling in the very heart of your hearts
any injustice committed against anyone anywhere in the world. That is the
most beautiful thing in a revolutionary.
>                    
>                    Ernesto Che Guevara


Our comments:

Exactly.  However, Castro, who strains himself in rendering assistance to
his "great friend President Fujimori", what does this old rotten mummy
actually feels for the THOUSANDS OF POLITICAL AND WAR PRISONERS OF THE
FASCIST DICTATORSHIP IN PERU?  

Evidently - and castro has said it in many occasions - the Cuban revisionist
leader "feels" that these social fighters are a bunch of "terrorists".  

And what does Castro "feel" for the leader of the Communist Party of Peru,
who has for the last 5 years been subjected to vesanic torture and entombed
under ground by the fascist regime with whom Castro himself shares the
mudbath of the same imperialist and counter-revolutionary pigsty in Latin
American politics?  Nothing.  Not a single word. It does not exist. 

And what about the MRTA, negotiators and gamblers who hedge their bets with
the lives of those unwary that serve them as cannon fodder?  What about the
"feelings" of these vile extorsioners and flunkeys of the rich?  What did
they feel except the need to pile insults upon the revolutionaries in order
to win the good will of the enemies of the revolution?

Did they not made it clear in a thousand languages that their only interest
was to defend and free their "Tupacamarista comrades"?  Did they not asked -
on their knees - that the bourgeois media should not in any way confuse them
with the "horrible terrorists of Shining Path"?

Did these gentlemen - in any way - felt "in their heart of hearts any
injustice against anyone anywhere in the world"?  Most certainly not.





>-----------------------
>                                                     
>Letter from Che to his parents:
>
>     Dear old folk: 
>
>     Again I feel under my heels the ribs of Rocinante and return to the
road with bearing my shield on my arm. 
>

>
>     Nothing in essence has changed, except that I have developed much more
conciousness, my Marxism is deeply rooted and purified. I BELIEVE IN THE
ARMED STRUGGLE AS THE ONLY SOLUTION for the peoples struggling for
libertaion and I AM CONSISTENT WITH MY BELIEFS. 


And Castro - the dilect friend of Fujimori, the Pope, Gaviria, Fraga - this
successor of Batista now playing the shameful role of Great Caribbean Pimp,
does HE believe in armed struggle as the ONLY SOLUTION FOR THE PEOPLES
STRUGGLING FOR LIBERATION, or does he rather believe in dollars from
imperialist tourism and the prostitution of Cuban youth?  

And the gangsters from the MRTA, those who at every opportunity place the
armed struggle over the green casino baize?  

What have such traffickers in common with Che Guevara?  How can these people
have anything in common with Guevara when all they do is to negotiate and
bargain with the ONLY SOLUTION FOR THE PEOPLES STRUGGLING FOR LIBERATION?

Pray, tell us in which way are such renegades "consistent with the beliefs
of Che Guevara"?

In nothing.


Adolfo Olaechea






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