A friend of mine is in Nicaragua working on his book. The other day he mentioned buying a Che tee shirt in Leon. Nicaragua is home of the hated Sandinsta, home of Daniel Ortega, another revolutionary general come president. He bought the shirt to fit in with the ladies in some of the Sandinista strongholds like Esteli. Anyway, I mentioned to the guy that although Che has a cool hippie looking photo that many hipters identify with, much like Jim Morrison, he was not a cool guy at all. Che was a doctor, a man that swore the Hippocratic oath, an oath where he swears to basically, "Do no Harm". Although both Morrison and Che are idiots overwhelmed with egomania, the similarities stop there. Che murdered many peasants and seen to the death of thousands more on the suspicion that they were traders or deserters. He killed people at the drop of the hat. And in the end, Che was killed with a hand full of men trying to take over Bolivia with a revolution once he was canned by Fidel. I guess Che felt that with 12 men, a vision and his winning personality he could convince the people of Bolivia to make a change. He was taken prisoner and executed by a bored soldier, dying an idiots death.
But hey, it is a pretty cool picture on the tee shirt. He looks like a real rock n roller.
