Che rides again in Hollywood
"Che" film gets thumbs up in Cuba," ran the headline from CNN's Havana Bureau on Dec. 8. Benicio Del Toro, who stars as Che, was in the Cuban capital at the Havana Film Festival this week-end presenting the movie he co-produced. "Che the movie met Che the myth in Cuba this weekend," starts the CNN report, "and the lengthy biopic of the Argentinean revolutionary won acclaim from among those who know his story best. "
Indeed, but the acclaim came because those "who knew his story best" (Castro and his Stalinist henchmen, the film's chief mentors) saw that their directives had been followed slavishly, that Che's (genuine) story was completely absent from the movie.
The Stalinist regime that co-produced this film and now fetes the star -- employing the midnight knock and the dawn raid among other devices by its KGB-mentored secret police- rounded up and jailed more political prisoners as a percentage of population than Stalin's and executed more people (out of a population of 6.4 million) in its first three years in power than Hitler's executed (out of a population of 70 million) in it's first six. Ernesto "Che" Guevara initiated this bloodbath and mass-jailing under the direction of Soviet GRU agent Angel Ciutah, who was Che's chief mentor and houseguest (in the most luxurious mansion in Cuba, by the way) only weeks after Che entered Havana and stole it from it's owner, threatening him with a firing squad.
The figures for the Che/Castro murders and jailings do not issue from Cuban-American sources. They're available from the Human Rights group Freedom House and from the Black Book of Communism, authored by French scholars and translated into English by Harvard University Press, not exactly headquarters for "the vast-right wing conspiracy" much less "right-wing Cuban crackpots."
Del Toro and Soderbergh's movie provides no hint of any of the above, while proving that that Castro has lost none of his touch at snookering the MSM and Hollywood. "This is Cuban history," gushed Del Toro at his Havana press conference, "there's an audience in here that that could be the biggest critics and the most knowledgeable critics of the historical accuracy of the film."...
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Indeed, but the acclaim came because those "who knew his story best" (Castro and his Stalinist henchmen, the film's chief mentors) saw that their directives had been followed slavishly, that Che's (genuine) story was completely absent from the movie.
The Stalinist regime that co-produced this film and now fetes the star -- employing the midnight knock and the dawn raid among other devices by its KGB-mentored secret police- rounded up and jailed more political prisoners as a percentage of population than Stalin's and executed more people (out of a population of 6.4 million) in its first three years in power than Hitler's executed (out of a population of 70 million) in it's first six. Ernesto "Che" Guevara initiated this bloodbath and mass-jailing under the direction of Soviet GRU agent Angel Ciutah, who was Che's chief mentor and houseguest (in the most luxurious mansion in Cuba, by the way) only weeks after Che entered Havana and stole it from it's owner, threatening him with a firing squad.
The figures for the Che/Castro murders and jailings do not issue from Cuban-American sources. They're available from the Human Rights group Freedom House and from the Black Book of Communism, authored by French scholars and translated into English by Harvard University Press, not exactly headquarters for "the vast-right wing conspiracy" much less "right-wing Cuban crackpots."
Del Toro and Soderbergh's movie provides no hint of any of the above, while proving that that Castro has lost none of his touch at snookering the MSM and Hollywood. "This is Cuban history," gushed Del Toro at his Havana press conference, "there's an audience in here that that could be the biggest critics and the most knowledgeable critics of the historical accuracy of the film."...