On 7/28/06, Dan Scanlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jul 28, 2006, at 3:42 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> The Cubans have managed
> this problem a little better than many others, by making Che, rather
> than Fidel, a bigger icon.
Could it be that Che is a bigger icon than Fidel, not because of the
management powers of the Cuban people but because the CIA was
successful in assassinating him (and not Fidel), and because American
and other arm-chair revolutionaries prefer him on their tee-shirts?
Yes, death at an early age preserved Che's glamour even in a
capitalist eye. But it's the Cuban leadership who decided whose face
should be on posters, murals, etc. in the island itself. A shrewed
decision, imho.
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Yoshie
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