by "Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
Published 10/09/2017 at 15:03
by "Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
Published 10/09/2017 at 15:03
Tags: Che Guevara
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No, not the Nissan 910 Bluebird yet.
Meet the late Ernesto Guevara, Che to his friends and admirers.
The Argentinian-born terrorist/murderer/freedom fighter/revolutionary (take your pick) was executed/murdered in Bolivia (take a further pick) fifty years ago today.
This famous image is based on a photograph by Alberto Korda. We see it here being used to promote a festival in the otherwise obscure town of Kilkee, on the west coast of Ireland. Why Kilkee? Because Jim Fitzpatrick, creator of the image, met Che there in 1961. Or not, depending on who you believe.
A mural of the image was painted on the sea wall in Kilkee and painted over by the local council in 2013, allegedly because some American tourists found it offensive. Local opinion was that the Americans should get over themselves and the mural reappeared.
Recently a commemorative stamp has been announced, to further controversy. In particular a Cuban-American, Ninoska Perez , with a radio show in Miami has complained that many of her listeners were incensed:
“And to me it’s really shameful that Ireland would put the image of someone who was a foreigner, went to Cuba to kill… was a failure in everything he did. So I don’t know what’s there to honour about Che Guevara.”
It is unexplained what Ms Perez and her listeners propose to do about this.
"CB" (jrcb)
10/09/2017 at 15:20, STARS: 0
“Local opinion was that the Americans should get over themselves”
Gave me a chuckle, but it’s the truth for a lot of things. Interesting post!
"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
10/09/2017 at 15:23, STARS: 1
A couple of years ago I found out about this absolutely by chance, after reading Maureen O’Hara’s entry on Wikipedia (yes, really):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Lynch_(Argentina)
"Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh" (andymcbradleigh)
10/09/2017 at 15:24, STARS: 2
I’m by all means a bloody commie.. not a huge fan of Che though.. BUT.. I’ve had 3 Nissan Bluebirds. Three U11's (all with the twin spark engine) Brilliant engines.
"SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media" (silentbutnotreallydeadly)
10/09/2017 at 17:03, STARS: 1
Che (and the idea of Che) has been misappropriated by everyone since the 1950's and it does no-one no favours. The bloke is dead. Get over it.
On the other hand, the Irish choosing his image as the basis of a commemorative stamp is Irish in extremis and therefore bloody good craic.
On the other other hand...
