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no more banksters

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Fri Oct 9, 2015, 12:56 PM Oct 2015

48 Years Since Che Guevara's Execution by the CIA

Ernesto “Che” Guevara was not born a revolutionary. He grew up in a middle-class Argentine family and trained to be a doctor, preparing to live a bourgeois life. But unlike others in his class, he was unable to shut his eyes to the injustices upon which material wealth was based: generational poverty and state-imposed policies designed to keep the poor ignorant and exploited.

Life blessed him with the opportunity to live out his days in comfort, but instead he died age 39, fighting for revolution, murdered by CIA agents on Oct. 9, 1967, in the jungles of Bolivia.

Guevara’s eyes were famously opened to the harsh reality of capitalism for those born less privileged than him when, as a medical student in his early 20s, he hopped on a motorcycle and went on a tour of South America. He found disease, destitution and illiteracy – along with the sort of compassion and generosity that appears to be inversely related to the amount of wealth one possess.

From that point on, he labored to uplift the working class from Cuba to Guatemala to the Congo. And, although his death was premature, his legacy continues to serve as an inspiration to revolutionaries around the world today.

Source and pictures:

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/multimedia/48-Years-Since-Che-Guevaras-Execution-by-the-CIA-20151008-0058.html

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48 Years Since Che Guevara's Execution by the CIA (Original Post) no more banksters Oct 2015 OP
I haven't missed him. nt COLGATE4 Oct 2015 #1
Why comment? chervilant Oct 2015 #3
You are in the Socialist Group - TBF Oct 2015 #4
. Joe Shlabotnik Oct 2015 #2
... TBF Oct 2015 #5

chervilant

(8,267 posts)
3. Why comment?
Sat Oct 10, 2015, 08:53 PM
Oct 2015

Perhaps you are not aware of his advocacy on behalf of the Hoi Polloi, for which I and many others hold him in high esteem.

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