Che Guevera?

[Rev. Rye]

I remember taking a Latin American History class and my impression boiled down to this:

• He really did fight against a corrupt and vile regime (like the Batista Regime.)
  
• He did kill a lot of innocent people. Then again, when doing Guerrilla warfare (or, for that matter, warfare in general), this is, sadly inevitable.
  
• In the end, the big difference between Cuba under Batista and Castro is that Batista's was an authoritarian regime with rampant poverty and nigh-on-nonexistent human rights with American support and Castro's is an authoritarian regime with rampant poverty and nigh-on-nonexistent human rights with little to no American support.
  
• Conclusion: Was Che a good guy? Inconclusive.
  

Point: Carlos Fonseca is a much better role model as Latin American revolutionaries go. When the Sandinistas took over Nicaragua in 1979, they really tried to make things better (Teaching 38% of your population to read in a single year: fucking awesome). If only Reagan hadn't come to power and had the Contras fuck everything up.