Che Guevara Monument Toppled in Venezuela

This is awesome, and its what should happen to all monuments to Che Guevara.  And if you are one of those that participate in douchebaggery by wearing Che t-shirts or buttons, you should be smacked.  Really hard.

 
Now why would they shoot and topple a memorial to Che Guevara?  Maybe because he was a murderer?

From KansasCity.com here:

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.

So it appears that there is some resistence to the socialist regime that Hugo Chavez is cramming down the throats of his people.  The real Che Guevara is not someone to idolize. 

 

He was:

• Chief executioner for the Castro regime, responsible for the murder of thousands
• Was appointed Cuba’s Minister of Economics in 1960; within months the Cuban peso was practically worthless.
• Was appointed Cuba’s Minister of Industries in 1961; within a year a previously prosperous nation was rationing food, closing factories, and losing hundreds of thousands of its most productive citizens, who were happy to flee with only the clothes on their backs.  

The excellent website DiscovertheNetworks has a great writeup on Che.