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Celebrate the new movie about Che? Why?

At this year's Cannes Film Festival, Benicio Del Toro won "best actor" for his role as Che Guevara in Steven Soderbergh's film glorifying the Argentine-born "revolutionary," also known by acquaintances as a sniveling coward, an insufferable prig, a military doofus, a Stalinist and a psychotic mass-murderer.

"The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind!" raved Che Guevara in 1961. "If the nuclear missiles had remained, we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City," he boasted to the London Daily Worker in November of 1962. "Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination. The victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims."

"I'd like to dedicate this to the man himself, Che Guevara!" beamed the Oscar-winning Del Toro upon accepting his Cannes award for "The Argentine" to a thunderous ovation. "I wouldn't be here without Che Guevara, and through all the awards the movie gets you'll have to pay your respects to the man!"

At Cannes, Variety's Todd McCarthy had branded Soderbergh's movie "defiantly nondramatic" and "a commercial impossibility." New York Magazine called it, "something of a fiasco." But this month at the Toronto Film festival, Che finally landed a U.S. distributor, (IFC Films) and is due for a U.S. release in December. The film already premiered in Spain just last week and to predictably rave reviews.
Read entire article at Humberto Fontova at worldnetdaily