LOL: Vigilante Justice On Che Monument
So which of you people just got back from South America?
CARACAS, Venezuela - A glass monument to revolutionary icon Ernesto “Che” Guevara was shot up and destroyed less than two weeks after it was unveiled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s government.
Images of the 8-foot-tall glass plate bearing Guevara’s image, now toppled and shattered, were shown Friday on state television, which said the entire country “repudiated” the vandalism.
The monument on an Andean mountain highway near the city of Merida was unveiled Oct. 8 by Vice President Jorge Rodriguez and Cuba’s ambassador to Venezuela to mark the 40th anniversary of Guevara’s death.
Chavez venerates Guevara as a model socialist for all Venezuelans. He named a state-funded adult education program “Mission Che Guevara,” and murals of the iconic revolutionary have become a common sight in Venezuela.
Police said they had yet to identify those responsible. The Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional published a copy of what it said was a flier found by the monument signed by the previously unknown “Paramo Patriotic Front.”
“We don’t want any monument to Che, he isn’t an example for our children,” the flier read. It called Guevara a “cold-blooded killer” and said the government should raise a monument in Chavez’s hometown of Sabaneta, in the nearby lowland plains, if it wants to commemorate the Argentine-born revolutionary.
The local mayor, Jesus Maria Espinoza, suggested the vandals came from elsewhere.
“We can’t tolerate people from outside … damaging something that was unveiled with so much happiness, with so much enthusiasm that day,” Espinoza told state television.
The 1.5-inch-thick stele was erected near the top of El Aguila Peak, a popular tourist spot and one of the highest points in Venezuela at 13,143 feet above sea level.
Guevara visited this spot in 1952 during his travels through South America, which he recorded in his diary, before joining the Cuban revolutionary struggle led by Fidel Castro.
Ian James’ AP article HERE.
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Boo-fucking-hoo …
Hey, just curious … Did it have Che’s most famous quote on it:
“Don’t shoot! I’m Che!”
October 19th, 2007 at 2:13 pmWish this was my work, i would proudly claim it
October 19th, 2007 at 2:34 pmChe’s taking a few hits these days. I hope everyone checked out the “ Che hated communism” kerfuffle?
October 19th, 2007 at 2:48 pmThat’s awesome!
October 19th, 2007 at 2:50 pmI have an alibi! You can’t prove a thing!
October 19th, 2007 at 3:51 pmI have relatives in Venezuela and it sucks to be there. People are now being issued ration stamps for things like flour, sugar, and milk. Worker’s paradise….
October 19th, 2007 at 8:21 pmNão foi eu na Venezuela que acidental descarregou o meu weopen e estalou somente um bocado do vidro. Damn it, don’t put sh*t onde estou dirigindo.
Sorry it was an accident, I’ll donate a better one!
October 19th, 2007 at 9:27 pm“People are now being issued ration stamps…”
C’mon… dontcha know Chavez has important work to do in Maryland…
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2007/10/local_maryland.html
October 19th, 2007 at 10:24 pmSully that is nothing less than anti-American politics…
Either they are being spiteful with their antics or simply wasting the battery to the stupid meter
October 19th, 2007 at 11:32 pmHow symbolic…Guess the didn’t have total replacement coverage for glass..
October 20th, 2007 at 8:45 amHaha! ¡Chinga a tus madres, putas socialistas!
October 20th, 2007 at 11:31 amThe CIA did it!!
Monumnets to mass murderers is not going to feed your poor chavez!!
October 21st, 2007 at 3:47 am