The cult of Che Guevara (all those posters and tee-shirts, not to speak of the recent movie hagiography) is a persistent\u2014and rather annoying\u2014reminder of the way that the crimes of communism still rank oddly low in the popular imagination.<\/p>\n
But if the Che cult is bad in the United States, in Argentina\u2014the land of the murderer\u2019s birth\u2014it is worse. Please see below a few pictures I took recently in Buenos Aires. Some of this tat must have been aimed at the tourist peso, but I suspect that it also reflected a certain pride in a local boy made, uh, good, a pride about as perverse as, oh, I don\u2019t know, maybe irony-free US tee-shirts commemorating \u201cCharles Manson, American\u201d, a design that may somewhere exist but, if it does, remains mercifully rare. <\/p>\n
Well, you get the picture. <\/p>\n Then again, back in the USA there is<\/em> this<\/a>\u2026..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The cult of Che Guevara (all those posters and tee-shirts, not to speak of the recent movie hagiography) is a persistent\u2014and rather annoying\u2014reminder of the way that the crimes of communism still rank oddly low in the popular imagination. But … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/P80707001.jpg\" "\\"Che,")
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